The Richest Man in Metropolis is My Backer by Dream Searcher

Chapter 98

“How will you go about it?” Soren asked.

“Well, I’ll just tell him we didn’t have sex,” I replied.

“You mean you’d make him think I asked a young lady to explain these things on my behalf? That makes me look like a coward…”

“Oh.” I buried my face in my hands, consumed by shame. “What are we gonna do?!”

Just as the two of us were trying to figure it out, a voice called out, “They told me you went out to personally greet one of the guests, Soren. I was curious to see who the lucky woman might be!”

A grimace crept across Soren’s face.

“Oh, great. Speak of the devil,” he muttered under his breath.

I stiffened. Richard?!

I didn’t know him before this moment. For one, the Rockefellers were on par with the Kenways in terms of status, which placed them far above the Jones family. Our paths rarely crossed.

Secondly, most of my friends were women.

politely toward him. “This is the owner of

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I already know her. Miss Taylor Jones, in

I nodded politely.

interested

eyes met. I could see the amusement

up, forcing a confident smile. “I hope you weren’t too troubled

made everything up for no reason other than to spite Edward Kennedy. I’m sorry it

is, neither of us did anything like that to

nose, clearly trying to hide his

gaze shifted between the two of us. “Oooh. So the man’s prayers haven’t

interjected,

ww

even bother explaining? We’re all adults here. Some

still didn’t believe

was drunk, Mr. Rockefeller. Mr. Kenway was simply taking care

on Soren, his smile widening. ” And him, taking care of you? He grew up with a retinue of maids. What does he know about taking

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