Mistaken Match: Marrying the Enigmatic CEO by Ruby Fennimore

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Chapter 96

Ryder had never won an argument against his wife. At last, they came to

an agreement to gift Shawn the supplements to offset eighty thousand

from her poker debt.

Shawn was not even thinking about collecting the debt, so he thought he

had no reason to turn her away when she delivered to him herself.

Out of curiosity, he asked Abellyn quietly, “Are you related to Ms. Quillen,

who was in your uncle’s house the other day?”

Ryder was Emmanuel’s elder cousin, but Emmanuel’s father was older

than Ryder’s. Even more bizarre, Ryder was younger than Benny.

Ryder’s father had fathered him when the former was seventeen. Thus,

the difference in age between the two generations of the Lowe family had

always been a distinct oddity.

“She’s the wife of my cousin–in–law, Emmanuel. What about her? You don’t

have a crush on her, do you? You men are pigs!”

As she chided, Abellyn pinched Shawn on the waist.

Though she feared him, she was also trying to seduce him; she thought it

with

be with a pauper

not! Don’t say that. I

vehemently, deathly afraid that the woman was

to some sort

Shawn did not dare indulge

with somebody

curious at the sight of his panic. “You were joking,

you not dare court?”

I’m keeping the gifts,

debt written off. You’d

sent Abellyn and her husband away, still reeling from the discovery

cold CEO of Terence Group had become a

is going on?

Verkade Group. He had even

business

curry

himself.

Hubert coveted Mackenzie, having heard

relentlessly pursuing

gotten married?

get to the bottom of the matter, Shawn hurriedly sought

the pretense of delivering

a rumor, Mr. Verkade.

spread such

on the table, Hubert was savoring

the veracity of those words. It was clear

not believe it.

play poker with,” Shawn answered

the gossip that gets passed around

for her misandry. Even I could not

you think

married?”

have a point. That woman shares such lousy gossip. I’m

along as I heard it. Anyway, I’m