Tonight’s banquet was the equivalent of an engagement party, so the Tassis family took it especially seriously and the party was particrlyvish.


    The Caza family chauffeur had taken Mercedes early in the morning to the Tassis family vi where the party was to take ce. The guests were close friends and rtives of the Caza family, as well as members of the high society of the Pacific City.


    This party,bined with the previous news of the union of the Caza family with the Tassis family, the guests were sure that the Tassis family and the Caza family would make the official announcement.


    Everyone awaited the statement from both sides in silence.


    -Vanessa, you and thedy stay here and rest a while, while I go and see how the arrangements at the banquet areing on. Later, when it begins,e together.


    -It’s all in your house, Benjamin, you don’t have to entertain us, hurry up and get to work so as not to neglect the guests.


    -Yes, I’m going now.


    Benjamin smiled softly and exchanged nces with Vanessa, reassuring her before leaving.N?velDrama.Org holds ? this.


    -It is clear that the Tassis family holds you in high esteem.


    Vanessa smiled but said nothing at her mother’sment.


    In fact, she had often been distracted since Dn’s phone callst night. And today, the uneasy feeling was even stronger and more tense. Was she being paranoid about what was going to happen tonight?


    Mercedes was so full of joy that she didn’t notice Vanessa’s difort.


    After about ten minutes or so, the party was almost ready to start.


    As the rest of the Tassis family was busy, it was the housekeeper of the Tassis family who came to take Mercedes and Vanessa to the ballroom.


    As for the housekeeper, Vanessa was already considered the youngdy of the Tassis family, so she treated them with special respect and affection.


    -Mrs. Mercedes, Miss Vanessa, please follow me. The banquet in the front hall will start soon, and my gentlemen are busy. I am very sorry for the dy.


    -We’re all from the same family, it’s all right,” Mercedes said with pleasure.


    The two of them soon reached the living room where Benjamin was standing next to his parents and seemed to be talking. When he noticed Vanessa’s gaze, he looked up.


    Looking at each other, Benjamin gave a tender smile.


    -Look, Benjamin is so anxious about you that he has to flirt with you with his eyes.


    Mercedesughed deliberately and Vanessa was speechless for a moment.


    He did not know what to say to refute his mother.


    Seeing that the feast was about to begin, suddenly some maid of the Tassis family rushed up to Benjamin’s parents at that moment and whispered something, and the two of them looked at each other, and even Benjamin’s expression suddenly changed.


    -What happened? -Mercedes looked suspiciously at Benjamin, who had suddenly left, and couldn’t help but take her daughter’s hand firmly in hers.


    -Maybe there’s some unexpected problem that Benjamin has to deal with, it’s OK. Aren’t his parents still on stage as usual? Don’t worry,e on stage when they call you.


    Vanessa shed her worry and anxiety and took Mercedes’ hand to reassure her.


    However, until Benjamin’s parents finished their speech on stage and announced the official opening of the banquet, Mercedes was not invited up to announce the marriage in public, as had been agreed.


    -What’s going on? Howe I haven’t been invited upstairs and your engagement to Benjamin hasn’t been announced?


    Mercedes frowned and grabbed her daughter’s hand, asking worriedly.


    Vanessa helped and reassured her:


    -Don’t worry, don’t think too much, maybe there is something wrong. Don’t you know what kind of person his parents are? If something hadn’te up all of a sudden, how could I not do what had been discussed.


    -But … these people who came to the party, they all know the purpose of this party tonight. But as a result… no matter what problems they have, but in that case, isn’t it like pping us in public?


    Mercedes sensibly maintained her superficially elegant and virtuous smile, standing still to block the surreptitious and probing nces of those around her.


    He tried to feign joy and whispered to Vanessa, but his tone was tinged with anger.


    -We just need to ask her parents,” Vanessa saw her parents approaching and she made a point of telling Mercedes.


    -Vanessa, Mercedes,” Benjamin’s mother approached her, barely smiling, guiltily. She knew they were guilty of not doing what they had said they would do, that they were sorry for Mercedes and Vanessa.


    Starting to deal with things like this, they had to.


    -This is not the ce to talk, let’s talk somewhere else.


    Vanessa and, of course, Benjamin followed her, while Benjamin’s father stayed in the living room to attend to the guests.


    The three continued walking towards the small room.


    Benjamin’s mother looked at Mercedes and Vanessa with a guilty look on her face, her eyes red with shame.


    -Mercedes, Vanessa, I’m so sorry. Today I was supposed to announce the happy news of the Tassis family and the Caza family, but who knows what? I am so sorry, it is the Tassis family that we have wronged you both, mother and daughter. But I promise you that our rtionship will not change. When this is over, we can remain inws.


    Benjamin’s mother was sincere in her words and did not seem to mock them at all.


    Although Mercedes was angry, she gradually calmed down.


    -What exactly happened?


    Benjamin’s mother sighed helplessly and said wearily:


    -To put it mildly, it’s my fault.


    Isabel, who had been in the custody of her family’s people Sanchez, found the right opportunity to escape and even bought a ticket back to her country. Coincidentally, she arrived in the Pacific City tonight.


    When he arrived, he climbed straight to the top of the Pacific Cityndmark before knocking on the Tassis family’s side.


    Isabel threatened the Tassis family that she would jump from the building if she announced her marriage to the Caza family.


    It was a matter of life and death, and although Benjamin’s parents were furious, they had to do as Isabel said. Thetter had bribed the Tassis family maid to install cameras in the banquet hall and, with time running out, Benjamin’s father and mother had no choice but to calm her down first.


    Benjamin left, also to rush to bring Isabel back safe and sound.


    In any case, she was like a sister to Benjamin whom he had watched grow up.


    After listening to Benjamin’s mother’s exnation, there was absolute silence in the room.


    Mercedes would never have thought that her future rambunctious son-inw would be so indebted. It wasn’t her own fault, but if that crazy, paranoid girl kept bothering Benjamin, how would he be able to lead a peaceful life with Vanessa in the future?