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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

to be with Shawn, the

to be with a pauper

did not! Don’t say that. I would never

deathly afraid that the woman was

some sort

Shawn did not dare indulge

with somebody like

the sight of his

do you not

mouth, Abellyn! I’m keeping the gifts, and you

You’d better

husband away, still reeling

of Terence Group had become

going on?

with Verkade Group. He had even

business relationship

curry favor with Hubert, a playboy

himself.

that Hubert coveted

pursuing Mackenzie. How could she

gotten married?

to the bottom of the

Hubert under the pretense of delivering a

rumor, Mr. Verkade.

would spread such vile lies?”

the table, Hubert was savoring

impassively denied the veracity of those words. It was clear that

not believe it.

play poker with,” Shawn

the gossip that gets

misandry. Even I could not

Do you think

married?”

a point. That woman shares such lousy gossip.

it along as I heard it.

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