Chapter 37
Reba soon returned to the room.
Before she even saw Sonia’s cards,
Reba could already guess what had transpired just by the ‘gentle’ smile on Tina’s face. Sonia must
have suffered a
harsh defeat when I was away.
Reba went to sit next to Sonia and shot
a nce at the cards in Sonia’s hands.
Again, they were not quite useful. Then,
she asked in a low voice, “President Reed,
the woman opposite of you is not any
other woman. She’s your ex-husband’s
lover. Are you really going to be defeated
by her like this?”
“No worries. I just have to win three rounds
out of five.” Sonia smiled. Since she sai down to y poker with them, she looked
as peaceful as ever.
While she replied to Reba, she yed
yet another card.
“Game.” Tina ced her card down with a
brighter smile on her face,
Reba was speechless to hear that.
“President Reed, you have already lost two
rounds to Tina. I think there’s no need to
continue,” Tina’s friend said pompously.
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“Tina is not a petty person. As long as you
apologize to her, we will hire the best
tattoo artist to remove the tattoo from
your body.”
Tina raised her head slightly as she looked at Sonia. It looked as though she was waiting for Sonia to
concede defeat. “Would you like to continue, Miss Reed?”
she asked in a gentle yet peaceful tone.
“Of course.” Sonia shuffled the cards again without a change in her expression. “We said that we could
y five rounds.”
Tina’s friend rolled her eyes at Sonia and she rudely spoke, “We are giving you an
opportunity, yet you are not treasuring it
and pointing the gun at yourself. Tina is so
good at poker that I think you would never
win against her.”
“That’s enough.” Tina stopped her friend,
but she looked at Sonia vindictively. “Since
Miss Reed would like to continue with the
game, I will follow her wishes then.”
They soon started a new round,
Since the upants in the room were only women, the spectators did not merely watch the game. While
they snacked on
the tidbits, they chatted with each other.
Tina’s friend was called Cynthia Stone. On Cynthia’s right was Sonia while Melody was seated on
Cynthia’s left.
Cynthia was not just watching the game as she even peeled an orange and passed
it to Melody ingratiatingly. “Melody, how
long are you going to stay in Seafield this
time? Are you nning to spend the new
year here?”
“I will return to Norfolk after the new year
Melody threw her cards on the table loudly.
With a frown she added “Peter Southfield
With a frown, she added, “Peter Southfield wants to have a divorce. He’s back here to look for awyer.”
Cynthia was shocked to hear this piece of news and carefully skirted around the topic. “Back then, didn’t
the Southfield Family beg your grandfather to betroth you to him? They used your family name to
aplish many things. How could he even dare to divorce you?
“Well, it’s because” Melody suddenly
remembered something and stopped
borating halfway through the sentence.
Then, she merely gave a cold smile. “I’m
not someone he can easily marry and
divorce! I want to see whichwyer in
Seafield is willing to take this case!”
Sonia merely listened to them in the
silence as she lowered her eyes.
She did not know much of the Southfield
Family in Seafield. She was only aware that they were quite influential in this city with almost as much
authority as the Stryder Family in Norfolk.
Melody had the guts to be arrogant only because of her powerful background and her grandfather, who
was a minister,
supporting her. Even if she was married to
the Southfield Family that was of equal
standing to her family, it was the
Southfield Family that was not good
enough for them.
If the Reed Family did not encounter that tragic ident which imed the lives of
all its members when Sonia married Toby,
Jean would have had to respect her today,
Not to mention, Sonia wouldn’t have suffered such a shameful defeat in her marriage.
She was lost in her thoughts as she
thought about the past. At this moment,
she suddenly heard Cynthia saying, “Tina will be engaged to President Fuller on New
Year’s Eve and she’s nning to invite us to her ce for dinner. Since you will still be in Seafield at that
time, we will have a celebration together.”
“Oh?” Melody was quite shocked to hear
that. “I heard that she was already
engaged to him. Why are they doing that
again?”
“Wall that irae the initial n buit
“Well, that was the initial n, but someone stole Tina’s engagement Me. What disgusting
behavior!” Cynthia responded pointedly and shot a nce at Sonia as she raised her voice. “That won’t
happen again. President Fuller said that he has only invited a few friends to the Fuller Residence for
dinner. Apart from that, the wedding will take ce on
Valentine’s Day next year!”
“Getting married on Valentine’s Day?” Melody asked Tina. “Is that true?”
Tina hummed in agreement before she
gave a gentle smile. “I’ve been in aa
for six years. Toby thinks that we have
already dyed it for quite a long time, so
he wants to get married soon. The
designers have started to design the
wedding dress, but we haven’t selected a
“He even hired someone to specially design the wedding dress for you? Tina, he loves you so much!”
Cynthia said in an exaggerated manner to suck up to her.
Upon seeing that Sonia had lowered her head without speaking as though she wanted to pretend
Cynthia wasn’t there, Cynthia pretended to curiously ask, “Miss Reed, I heard that the wedding dress
you had when you married President Fuller
was in and ugly. You even wore an
evening gown instead of a wedding dress.
Is it true?”
Sonia remained quiet upon hearing that.
“How could you just wear an evening gown
to your weddina? That’s so unlucky! Is it
because President Fuller refused to buy a wedding dress for you?”
She continued to remain silent.
Upon seeing Sonia’s silence, Cynthia’s voice became even sharper. She even nudged Sonia as she
asked, “Why aren’t you saying anything, Miss Reed?”
“How did you know that President Reed didn’t wear a wedding dress when she got married? Have you
personally attended her
wedding?” Reba could no longer
tolerate Sonia being bullied further. “Apart
from that, there’s something wrong with
your words.”
Cynthia snorted coldly. “She just didn’t have a wedding dress for her wedding.
Can‘t I talk about 117 Apart from that, what’s wrong with what I’ve just said?”
“Everyone knows that President Reed and
President Fuller used to be husband and wife. You bragging about it is just implicitlyparing Miss
Gray’s husband to second hand goods,” Reba softly answered with fake innocence.
The moment she said those words, she even shot a nce at Tina. “Don’t you think
so, Miss Gray?”
Cynthia did not expect Reba to be extremely sharp with her words. When Cynthia saw the smile
fading from Tina’s face, she panicked. “Tina, that’s not what I meant. I never thought of President Fuller
as your second hand husband.”
Reba burst out inughter aller she heard that and used her hand to cover her
red lips. You said that you didn’t mean that, but you keep talking about President
Fuller as if he’s a second hand product.
What exactly do you mean?”
Cynthia was so furious that she was at a loss for words.
Sonia was quite depressed while she
faced Cynthia’s taunts and just wanted to
ignore her. It was unexpected that
Reba would stand up for Sonia.
Sonia’s red lips twitched upward. Just as
she was about to speak, she saw the door of the private room being pushed open by a tall figure who
quickly entered.