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.

was a vengeful woman, she knew when to call it quits.

four of them had now

He glanced at Elliot,

The last time Daphne interviewed him, Julie had shown up and seemed to be waiting for

so attentive. She nodded and replied with

saying this, she suddenly felt she overshared. She was merely Mr. Lionel’s date for the evening. He surely wasn’t interested

felt embarrassed and let out a few awkward

Julie. Having been an agent for many years, her observation and sensitivity were definitely not inferior to Daphne’s. She immediately noticed the tense atmosphere

of Daphne for many years, Albertine asked

away, she confidently said, “She’ll be fine! Julie’s never lost a fight since she was a

you guys

relationship with Julie, so she

do you know she’s never lost a fight since she was a kid? You

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

she was speaking, Daphne

mentally scolded herself, why couldn’t she stop talking

you stop? Keep going! I was

Albertine a look, “Tini, why do

and pointed to the auction item on the stage, “This is

After he did, Albertine turned her attention to

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

her gaze was fixed on the auction stage. It was the ring her mother 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 had never seen this ring again.

flooded Julie’s mind like a tide…

as though she was back in her

than boys. She aspired to be the superhero characters she saw on TV. In her childhood memories, her parents, Darcey Abraham and Padgett

her that her mom’s family wasn’t actually dirt poor, but her dad was born into a life of poverty. Her mom fell head over heels for her dad when she was young, but

tried his hand at playing the stock market. Whether it was luck or skill, he ended up making a some money.

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