The Bride’s Revenge

Chapter 234 Miss Cartier, What Are You Doing?

Wine was bitter, but candy was sweet.

Lucas looked down, deep in thought. Then, he put the bottle opener back in its place and placed the unopened bottle back on the shelf.

After reclaiming his seat next to Marion, he reached into her palm and took one candy.

He unwrapped the candy and tossed it into his mouth. When the candy touched his tongue, a slight sourness spread in his mouth, followed by the overwhelming taste of orange.

However, once he bit into the candy, the sweetness instantly masked the earlier. acidity.

She was right. It was sweet.

However, he wanted to push it a bit further.

Lucas turned to look at Marion, who had been watching him. “It’s not sweet enough. It’s a bit sour.”

“Huh?” Marion suddenly felt awkward. “Sorry, orange candies can be a bit sour.” He remained silent, staring at the glass in her hand. “Are you not drinking that?”

Following his gaze, Marion glanced at her wine glass. She had just taken a small sip just now, so more than half a glass of red wine was left.

The look in Lucas’s eyes suggested, “If you’re not drinking, I will.”

Marion quickly glanced at the two empty wine bottles nearby and nodded. “I am.”

wine glass, closed her eyes, and downed

aroma of the wine reminded her it was a

went

“All gone,

the last bit

leaned against the wine cabinet behind him, not uttering

She felt that Lucas had undoubtedly experienced an unprecedented

would not be here, secretly

rarely face situations

it a matter

unlikely as she had not heard anything about

betrayed

as Lucas’s friends

it had to

incident when Arthur came to threaten her with divorce. He demanded that

a father would go to such extremes.

would not do

but could not figure out why Lucas seemed so disheartened today. Unfortunately, she knew very little about

Marion looked at the man beside her once

Was he asleep?

was asleep,