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.

call it quits. Once Elliot

the four of them had now become

glanced at Elliot, then asked Daphne, “If

and seemed to be waiting for Daphne for

She nodded and replied with a smile, “We’re great friends!”

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

and let out a

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

Albertine asked with concern, “Your friend isn’t in trouble, is she?”

calmly not far away, she confidently said, “She’ll be fine!

asked Daphne, “So, you guys grew up

Lionel was asking about her relationship with Julie, so she replied with

fight since she was a kid? You two must be very

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 should know that

speaking, Daphne suddenly stopped.

couldn’t she stop talking once

you stop? Keep going! I was

Albertine a look, “Tini, why do you like gossiping this

answer, Babur next to her covered her mouth and pointed to the auction item

he did, Albertine turned her attention to the auction stage, curious to see what the

ring. The entire ring was a unique yellowish-green

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

flooded Julie’s mind like a tide…

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 Abraham, had a blissful

but her dad was born into a life of poverty. Her mom fell head over heels for her dad when she was

playing the stock market. Whether it was luck or skill, he ended up making a

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