Chapter 27

Time fleeted unnoticeably, and it was almost ten o’clock.

“Get ready, everyone,” an assistant called out to the supermodels backstage. “Stand by the stage. It’s

almost showtime!”

The supermodels stood up to get in line according to their given number. Charmine was the last to

appear on stage, thus it was not her turn for at least the next thirty minutes. She laid back languidly on

her seat as she settled her mind.

Outside, amid the huge space of Ocean Pearl, a tall T-stage was built in half-translucent colourful glass,

surrounded by chairs across its perimeters. The guests in the hall were the richest in the country, able

to afford a ticket at a starting price of 200,000 dollars. Outside the hall, the standing tickets were as

high as a thousand dollars. Most of the audience was looking forward to the show; some for the

models while some for the jewelry. Of course, the one thing everyone was really looking forward to

was Charmine Jordan and how she would ‘stun the world’ as she claimed to.

On the right side of the T-stage, inside a private space isolated by green bamboos, three figures sat

and

entered the space and, with anxiousness, muttered, “Mr. Bailey, Miss Charmine

to

“Said what?” Anthony quipped.

a while to gather his courage before he spoke, “She asked you to spend

men, and that you should

took a

face darkened just like the sky before

she did not lack

in, Nial guffawed at the

woman? My sister-in-law

his frosty glare. “You should be

saved your life.”

that saved his life’?

began to whimper. “Mommy placed

help?” said the boy before he began to sob. “What if Mommy loses?

see Mommy lose!”

ruffled the boy’s hair. “Don’t worry, Mommy won’t

laced with firmly

in his brother’s eyes when he spoke of Charmine, and

spoke,

search about the girl from five years ago? Once we find out who it was, would

Charmine or the woman from

after a while, he glumly answered, “Just

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