Chapter 27

Never one to miss a chance to belittle Letitia, Shela tossed out a derogatory comment and then slyly checked Elgin’s reaction. The look on his face suggested that Letitia and the gentleman she was with were more than just passing acquaintances.

Elgin looked away and walked past Letitia into the venue without giving her another glance.

“Letitia,” Walden began, “How can he show up with another woman and leave you out here?”

“It’s my business, not yours.”

“No! I’m going to confront him!

“Walden!” Letitia grabbed him, “Don’t make a scene! I’m fine, let’s just go inside.”

Walden couldn’t believe her, “Letitia, how can you stand Elgin doing this to you?”

She smiled, “I’ve got no right to be angry, so there’s nothing to tolerate”

Walden looked at her with pity

“Alright,” she said, “Don’t offend Elgin on my account; it won’t do you any favors.”

To make Walden give up, she added, “And it won’t move me either.”

sensitive about her past with Walden, and now, with her as the head designer at the Ramirez Group Jewelry Department and Walden as the

corner and focused on the desserts

was the center of attention, surrounded by people eager to suck up

this Mrs. Ramirez?” someone

Shela wasn’t yet, but she might

“what matters is

Ramirez, but her status was even higher, able to be his plus-one at

you look so

a perfect match with Mr. Ramirez.”

join our ladies’

over the moon, loving

before were now

frowned slightly, he never liked these kinds of

gaze briskly swept the room, before instinctively finding Letitia. From a distance, he quietly observed her. Even a simple dress couldn’t hide her shapely

a cupcake, eating it slowly with a

she turned

that, but Shela

to the restroom, she suddenly said, “I’ll be right back.”

“Okay.”

She deliberately stood right behind Letitia without making a

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