Nelly looked toward that direction discreetly as well and discovered that he was actually staring at Cordelia!

She was shocked but did not show it, merely asking, “Mr. Irwin, the auction’s starting. Which piece are you going to bid for?”

Rowan’s brows were furrowed lightly. His mind had long gone to Cordelia.

As he looked at her from afar and watched how a man kept her in his arms like a treasure and how she smiled that even her dimples oozed happiness… he suddenly felt a pinch on his nose. A sob was lodged in his throat.

She really looked a lot like Xyla. Yet, the cool brilliance from her eyes looked so much like his.

Rowan smiled and felt sullen. He had promised Xyla that he would never disrupt their lives. Those formulas had severed all their relationships. The moment Xyla left Southeast Aciatic, they were strangers to each other.

Rowan’s fingers on the wine glass tightened, and his joints turned white from the exertion.

“Mr. Irwin, what’s the matter?”

“Hmm?” He snapped out of his thoughts and met Nelly’s questioning gaze.

“Oh, nothing.”

a pretty girl?” Nelly asked semi-jokingly. “That

talking about?”

looking at Cordelia Jenner

jolted. ‘Cordelia Jenner is

to survive in the

his fist, his

“What were

An illegitimate daughter of some small family hooking up with the third heir of

third heir,

“Exactly!”

change in Rowan’s

continued to say, “Mr. Irwin, the woman’s something. Zephyr offended Elder Mr. Hamerton in public because

voodoo in Southeast Aciatic that can control one’s mind…

abruptly. “You know a lot, huh, Ms. Tanner? Why don’t I know

realizing that she had

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