The Promise of Happiness novel Atalie and Samuel

Chapter 457 Walking Right Into A Trap

Natalie won her first sum of capital which enabled her to start Dream from stone-gambling.

Yandel was there when she won the bet. She was only twenty-six back then. He witnessed how she came from a nobody to a big shot in the business world.

She was way thinner years back, but her eyes were spirited and observant. Even back then, Yandel could see the sparkles of determination shining in her eyes.

Her gaze was telling that winning was her only option, and that conviction made her stand out in the crowd.

When Yandel and Natalie were in a similar situation after all these years, both of them could not help but reminisce on the past.

“I’ll pass,” Natalie said, shaking her head. “What are the odds of actually getting a jade? I had nothing to lose years back, so I wouldn’t mind trying. Come to think of it, it’s rather ironic. I have anything I ever wanted now, but I lost the courage to even give it a try.”

When Lia and Ross overheard their conversation, they looked at Natalie in surprise, not knowing what to say about their unexpected discovery.

Both of them could not believe that their chairwoman used to do something this relentless. In fact, they wondered what was it that she could not do.

While they were looking at untreated stones, Natalie suddenly spotted a familiar figure.

was a fetching woman in a

black and red gown augmented her fair skin, making her look

was not

was standing not far away from both of them. Their distance was close enough for Natalie to feel the intimate dynamic between the two of them. It

chase Natalie’s mother out from the Nichols family because he wanted to marry Yvonne. Natalie did not expect him to

glared at them fiercely as they walked

turned around when

matter, Boss?”

“Over there.”

and saw Thomas and

face darkened when they saw the

into someone I know today, I

just one gaze at one another, Yandel, Ross, and Lia knew

there anything

of them tasks and they went off to carry

how things would turn out. There was not a single

wouldn’t have died just like that if it weren’t

of raw rocks coming into the black market that day. Most of them were big and filled with weathering rinds. Judging from the appearance of these jade stones, customers present thought those stones had the potential of turning out to