Chapter 35
Although Tina was speaking in a gentle
tone, she was openly taunting Sonia
Sonia merely arched her eyebrows before she graciously smiled. “Since you said it first, it’s alright. You
can go ahead to
purchase it.”
Tina never expected that Sonia would not evenpete with her and gave her the watch instead. As a
result, Tina did not
return to her senses in that instant.
*Tina, it seems like Sonia doesn’t dare to offend you.” Tina’s friend leaned toward
her and boasted, “She doesn’t have any
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support after she divorced Toby. Her
which is why she won’t dare to take anything from you.”
Indeed. Now: Sonna has nothing apart from
a brokenpany
After hearing her friend’s words, Tina felt
relieved. She took the watch and handed it
to the saleswoman with her credit card.
“Till pay by card. Please wrap it for me.”
However, the saleswoman did not ept
Tina’s card and she instead asked
tentatively, “Miss, are you one of our VVIP
customers?”
“No.” Tina frowned while looking slightly
displeased at this moment. “You mean to
say that I can‘t even pay by card to buy this
lousy watch?”
“You can buy any other watches in our store using a card, but not for this series.” The saleswoman
looked conflicted. “Only The VVIP customers, who have spent six
million in our store for the past two years,
can buy it.”
Tina was speechless upon hearing that.
“She‘s just a saleswoman who sells watches. I wonder where her arrogance
annoyance. “I want to speak to your
manager! How ludicrous! We can’t even
buy a watch here?”
The saleswoman exined, “The watches
in this series have restrictions. It won’t
change anything even if our manager is
here.”
“Alright, I understand that we are not able to buy it, but what about this woman?
“Well, Miss Reed is able to buy it,” she replied. “She became our VIP customer three years ago as she
has spent enough
money here.”
Once again, upon hearing those words,
Tina was at a loss of words again.
When she heard what the saleswoman said, she spent a lot of effort maintaining
the gentle and calmposure on her
face.
Sonia had enough of the drama and took
the watch from Tina’s hand before she
passed it to the saleswoman. “Since you
are not able to buy it, Miss Gray, I’ll take it
instead.”
In a short moment, she took the receipt and the wrapped watch back with her.
Sonia said her thanks, but she paused next to Tina just as she was about to leave and apologized, “Miss
Gray, there are some things that you can’t buy even if I give the opportunity to you.”
When Tina heard Sonia’s words, it felt like a p to her face and she even felt her
cheeks burning.
As she nced at Sonia’s leaving figure,
Tina recalled what Tyler had said when he
identally called her duringst night.
Her gaze then slowly darkened. Why is she
always after what I want?
Sonia was in a great mood aller witnessing the drama. When she took the elevator to the basement
parking lot, she Si’w a familiar face.
“President Reed.”
She quickly recognized the tall and slender woman in front of her. “Reba Harper?”
Reba was Charles’ ex-ssmate. She was initially about to work for his
did not have any support in Paradigm Co. he asked Reba to help Sonia out.
Even though Sonia had been recently busy.
she knew that Reba worked at the
finance department as an ountant and
she was rather careful at the job.
*There are many employees in thepany, so I’m quite surprised that you remember me.” Reba
smiled as she held a cake in her hand. “There’s a dessert store here that serves tasty desserts. I’m
on my off day today, so I’m here to buy some desserts. What about you, President Reed? Are you here
to buy some clothes?”
“It’s Charles’ birthday today, so I’m here to
buy some presents for him.” Sonia shook the bag in her hand. “Do you have any ns tonight?”
“No. I just n to head home and watch a
few movies on the couch.”
“Why don’t you join our celebration? The
more the merrier. Since you are his ex ssmate, we are all familiar with each
other,” Sonia responded.
“Since you have invited me, I’ll dly join you, President Reed!” Reba did not
reject Sonia and pressed the button on the
elevator to head down. “Let’s go to the Second floor then. I’m going to buy a lighter for him. After all, I
can’t attend his
birthday celebration empty handed.”
Reba had the looks of an innocent girl.
She was fair, slender and exceptionally
beautiful, but she was a chatterbox at the same time. Once she started speaking, it was difficult for her to
stop, so she became loquacious.
This was the first time that Sonia had met
Someone even more talkative than
Charles, so she felt quite exasperated
about it.
Just as she was about to bring Reba to
Luna Club, Charles gave her a ring. “My grandmother has insisted on spending the night with me and
wants me to return home to have dinner together. Argh!! guess I’ll only arrive at Luna Club by around
10:00PM.”
“Sure. We’ll have dinner first before we’ll wait for you in the private room there.” After she hung up the
call, she brought
Reba for dinner.
Once they found a spot, Reba looked
around before asking Sonia, “President
Reed, I heard that you need to inform Luna
Club your sry range before you could
enter. Is that true?”
Yeah, so I booked the ce under
Charles’ name.”
“Why didn’t you use President Fuller’s name? Aren’t you guys marrie? It is probably more convenient to
just use his card,” Reba asked curiously
Sonia’s expression did not change much, but she asked indifferently, “How did you
know that we are married to each other?”
“Everyone knows that. It’s not a secret after all.” Reba shrugged. “However, I’m
curious-you are his wife and Paradigm
Co. has not been doing welltely. Why didn’t President Fuller help you out?”
After many years of marriage, he didn‘t even
look at me, let alone help me “He has way
too many things on his hands, so he’s
rather busy.” Sonia lowered her head to
look at the cup of tea in her hands. “Tve
already divorced him a few weeks ago, so
I’m no longer his wife.”
Upon hearing that a shocked Reba eximed, “Oh! I see.”
She quickly saw that talking about this topic had rendered Sonia in a terrible mood, so she lifted her cup
of tea and
toasted Sonia. “Congrattions for bing single again, President Reed! It’s
great to be single-we don’t have so much to worry about. It’s an amazing thing! If
you want to remarry, you can consider
Charles! Since you guys grew up together
and he takes good care of you, you guys
are beyondpatible!”
Sonia smiled after she heard Reba’s
jokes as it helped to lift her mood quite a
bit.
When dinner was over, she challed with Reba while they walked around the ce. She nned to
head to the private room to start the karaoke while waiting for Charles to arrive.
Just as Sonia and Reba walked out of
the restaurant, they met a few women.
Sonia was about to make way for those
women, but she did not expect that Tina and her friend, whom she saw at the watch
store in the afternoon, were among them.
Upon seeing this, she was stunned.
As Tina did not expect to see Sonia twice
in a day, she almost failed to maintain her
“Miss Reed.” This time around, she
forcefully spoke through aritted teeth. “I
heard that Paradigm Co. isn’t doing quite well recently. You’d need to reveal your sry here.”
Sonia merely gave a slight smile. “Yeah, I know. I’m using my boyfriend’s card. Do you have anything
else to say about that, Miss Gray?”
Tina’s pink lips were pressed together in a firm line, but she soon recalled something
and answered gently, “I’m about to y
some card games with my friends and we
are one person short. It’s good that we met
here. Since we are all acquainted with
each other, let’s y a few rounds
together.”
With that, she introduced Sonia to her
friends. “Meet Sonia Reed, the vice
president of Paradigm Co.”
As Tina spoke respectfully to the woman
next to her and even lowered her stance in
a slightly ingratiating way, it made Sonia
take a second look at the woman, who
wore a beautiful ck dress. It made the
woman stand out and overpower her peers
with just her looks.
“Who is this Miss Gray? Why is she so defensive toward you?” Reba inched
closer to Sonia and asked quietly.
“My ex-husband’s lover.”