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.

she knew when to call

among the four of them had now become awkward to the extreme.

Lionel finally stopped his cheerful chat with Albertine. He glanced at Elliot, then asked Daphne, “If I remember correctly, you know

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

didn’t expect Lionel to be so attentive. She nodded and replied with

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

Daphne felt embarrassed and let

Julie. Having been an agent for many years, her observation and sensitivity were

old friend of Daphne for many years, Albertine asked with concern,

but seeing Julie sitting calmly not far away, she confidently said, “She’ll be fine! Julie’s never lost

asked Daphne, “So, you guys grew

about her relationship with Julie, so she

since she was a

didn’t have the courage to get to know Julie then, or we might have become friends earlier. You should know that from middle school to university, Kieran

she was speaking, Daphne

couldn’t she stop

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

a look, “Tini, why do you like

her covered her mouth and pointed to

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

beautiful ring. The entire ring was a

always wore on her right ring finger since she was a child. Her mother treasured it. But the year

flooded Julie’s mind like

was back in her

superhero characters she saw on TV. In her childhood memories, her parents, Darcey Abraham and Padgett Abraham, had a blissful

into a life of poverty. Her mom fell head over heels for her dad when she was young, but her family didn’t approve,

Whether it was luck or skill, he ended up making

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