True Love Waits

Chapter 1378 Mess With The Best, Die Like The Rest

Everyone looked at the woman Chantel called out to. But the woman continued walking like she hadn't heard a thing.

Finally, someone told the woman, "Miss Zhu! I think Miss Ye is trying to get your attention!"

Panic flashed in the woman's eyes, but she took a moment to get ahold of herself before she turned to see. Chantel was busy mopping Erica's dress. The woman smiled at her and asked, "Yeah? And what do you need?"

The green juice had created an angry dark stain on the red dress. It was painfully obvious, and had ruined the dress, hopefully just for the evening. Pointing at the stain, Chantel asked, "Did you knock that glass of juice over?" Her tone told everyone she was furious.

'This is just too much. We dealt with someone earlier, and now another person decides to mess with Rika. Do they really think she's such a pushover?' Chantel thought in exasperation.

Before the woman could say anything, someone else piped up. "It must be her. I saw her drinking the same kind of juice before it happened."

"Come to think of it, you're right. I think she did it on purpose."

A woman approached Erica and whispered in her ear, "That's Lucia Zhu, a local model. At another party she was at, she made a point of falling so that Mr. Huo would catch her. She laughed it off like she was drunk, but she was so obvious."

'Fell so Matthew would catch her?' Erica's anger flared.

She was already pretty heated because of the stain on her dress, and the fact that someone might have done that intentionally. When Paige had sent dozens of dresses for her to pick from, she chose this one immediately. That was the one she wanted. No matter how beautiful and expensive the other dresses were, she didn't even bother trying them on.

Erica had come here to build prestige as Mrs. Huo, to establish once and for all that Matthew was her husband, and he was off the market. So she wasn't going to take this from anyone, particularly someone who had designs on Matthew.

my dress brushed the

a good attitude and she did sound sincere,

If she hadn't seen the smugness in Lucia Zhu's eyes, she would have believed that the woman was apologizing

dress. Deliberately, from what others are saying. You think an

Zhu hadn't done it on purpose,

a pass at her

I swear." Lucia Zhu seemed to

everyone she didn't like. Thinking of this, she threw the wet tissue she had used to mop up the stain on

words confused Lucia Zhu.

a little impatient. "Just do as I

and finally stopped,

mermaid dress. No decoration, no tassles. Your dress couldn't have knocked anything over. Mine can, thanks to the bow in the back. No, this is all you. I don't get where you come off, thinking you can fool me. Your dress doesn't flare that way, or drag across a table, or anything. And yet you're trying to tell me that the dress knocked the glass over? Maybe it was your elbow? And since your elbows aren't covered, you should have felt it when your elbow hit the glass. So how could you say

Erica was right, but Lucia Zhu just couldn't admit it. "I'm sorry, Mrs. Huo. I really didn't know I

up!" Erica was getting more and more fiery. The woman still wouldn't admit it and was

Matthew noticed a crowd forming at the dessert table. He had a bad feeling about this and

found the woman drawing this crowd

speak, the crowd greeted him and made way for him.

to stand with her. Erica glared at him and asked, "Do you

livid, and had no respect for

around her so much that they held their collective breath. 'Wow! No wonder she's Mrs. Huo! She's probably the only person who could talk to Matthew that way.' The guests were laying odds on whether