Love’s Cunning Ruse

Chapter 162

Chapter 162

Knowing about Albertine and Lionel’s past fling, the thoughtful organizers purposely separated their seating arrangements.

But they were clueless about the beef between Kieran and Elliot. They thought these two guys were just partners, so they placed them together.

Upon learning that there was no awkwardness between Lionel and Albertine, Daphne began to stress about Julie.

She kept throwing glances in Julie’s direction.

At that moment, Julie was making eye contact with Adeline. The host was delivering the opening speech. There seemed to be some sort of unspoken tension brewing between Kieran and Elliot.

The spat that happened outside earlier didn’t sit well with Daphne. She wanted to ask Lionel to convince the organizers to reseat the four of them, but turned around to find Lionel and Albertine in deep conversation.

And Albertine’s hubby, Mr. Farrell, was attentively listening to the host’s speech.

In the end, Daphne could only look back at Julie, only to find Julie whispering to Adeline.

Maybe she was overthinking.

She was too far to hear what Julie and Adeline were chattering about.

Actually, Adeline was gossiping.

Probably because she was pissed at the rapport between Elliot and Kieran, she said to Julie, “When you remarried Mr. Hernandez, did you ever consider how your first love would feel?”

Adeline’s comment silenced the three people present.

But Adeline acted as if nothing happened, telling Julie, “Doing this will upset my brother, you know!”

“Adeline!” Elliot’s face turned sour. He shot Adeline a look, signaling her to zip it.

knew when to call it quits. Once Elliot spoke up,

of them had now

chat with Albertine. He glanced at Elliot, then asked Daphne,

a good memory. The last time Daphne interviewed him, Julie had shown up and seemed to be waiting for Daphne for a long time. From Daphne’s attitude, he guessed she was trying to avoid Julie..

so attentive. She nodded and replied with a

overshared. She was merely Mr. Lionel’s date for the evening. He surely wasn’t interested in her

embarrassed and let out a few awkward

observation and sensitivity were definitely not inferior to Daphne’s. She immediately

Albertine asked

was a bit worried, but seeing Julie sitting calmly not far away, she

“So, you guys grew up

Daphne a moment to realize Lionel was asking about her relationship with Julie,

know she’s never lost a fight since she was a kid? You two must be very close!”

school as Julie in middle and high school, although we weren’t in the same class. I didn’t have the courage to get to know Julie then, or we might have become friends earlier. You

she was speaking, Daphne suddenly stopped.

she stop talking once she

very interested, “Why did you stop? Keep going! I was all ears! So, Mr. Hernandez and Ms. Abraham

a look, “Tini, why do you like

next to her covered her mouth and pointed to the auction

slapped his arm, signaling him to let her go. After he did, Albertine turned her attention to the auction stage, curious to see what the night’s

a beautiful ring. The entire ring was a unique yellowish-green color that caught everyone’s

always wore on her right ring finger since she was a child. Her mother treasured it. But the year the Abraham family went bankrupt, her mother and her lover eloped with all the family’s assets. Her father died of a stroke. Since her mother’s death in a car accident, she

Julie’s mind like

felt as though she was back in her childhood

Julie was more active than boys. She aspired to be the superhero characters she saw on TV. In her childhood memories, her parents,

a life of poverty. Her mom fell head over heels for her dad when she was young, but her family

at playing the stock market. Whether it was luck or skill, he

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