Chapter 117 Episode 117

“Aunt Sophia, there she is—chatting up that guy from the Rodgers family again!”

Billie’s expression curdled like milk left in the sun.

Her voice sliced through the air with sharp disapproval.

“Why don’t you keep a tighter leash on your wife? What sort of spectacle is she making, cozying up to another man at such a formal event?”

Kailee, always eager to fan the flames, added with mock concern, “Exactly, Aunt Sophia! Imagine what people might say if they saw this.

The whispers alone could tarnish the Norris name!”

Elijah pressed his fingers against his temple, the beginnings of a headache knocking insistently.

His patience frayed, he replied curtly, “Soren and Elizabeth are collaborating professionally.

This is a business event—social mingling comes with the territory.

no scandal in

displeasure bubbling

want to be the bad guy, I’ll do it for you.” She

“Go get Elizabeth.”

a zeal she reserved

orders, she strutted

you’re coming home with

growing attention around them, allowed herself to be led

off Kailee’s grasp with

your cousin’s wife, a

do well to remember

her smugness barely

“Oh, please.

you about to lecture me about overstepping? Save it—I’m just the

stop making a spectacle

Norris family doesn’t need a

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