204 Queen Scarlett

She doesn't have to wait for him. Or. She didn't get to wait for him. Sebastian beat her to it.

No one approached Ava when she got out of the car, not even Olivia Keen. When your title depends on a husband who shows how little he cares about you, you get little respect accordingly. That's how the circle is.

Ava was hoping that she could turn that around today.

"Olivia!" Ava quickly spots her long-time friend. After Sebastian made it clear that she was no longer under his wing, most "friends" in Ava's circle left her.

Don't get it wrong. Olivia was one of the first to abandon the ship. But that's how Ava knew Olivia would be one of the first to turn with the wind if she could turn Sebastian around. And that's happening tonight. "Who is this?" The guy standing by Olivia's side asks tauntingly, apparently knowing Ava's face.

"And who are you, if I may ask?" Ava tries to restrain the vile in her voice.

"This is my husband. He is a director, working for the Nest." Olivia shrugs with a wave of her hand casually, introducing, "Nick, this is Ava Knight, your boss's wife...I believe."

the last two words were about. The

company Sebastian pulled together, right after he signed over Z-House. It's not exactly a "social media" in the sense that it's not a platform where people share their lives with the world, but being a chat app, it offers real-time free calls,

with more -- well, fine, -- all aspects

after Ava

The guy Nick smirks as if he has been waiting to say that line for very

does not care to answer, and Nick just laughs

Except she wasn't Sebastian girl before She is now. She bears the title now, but the title somehow

by an emergency meeting," Ava says her line she prepared all the

couple's faces into some cake somewhere. But this is the announcement of her coming back as the queen of

now?" Olivia lets out a short

raising her chin at Nick, "le don't believe I have heard your name before. New in this field,

build up to her condescending tone, "I think I

Sure, she is not exactly having

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