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Chapter 57: Late For Dinner

"What?" Tonet frowned. She looked around at the empty tables and chairs. "What's going on?"

"Where is everybody?" Fredrick asked, and even her friend, Lucy, expressed the same.

"Tonet! Where have you been?" Anthony's voice cut through the silence on the right side of the ballroom. Tonet's eyes darted to the small gathering and identified Adrian, Riley, Abner, Clint, two board members, and a few unfamiliar faces. "I have been calling you!"

Tonet's eyes landed on the used empty plates. When she realized the gathering was over, she asked furiously, "How can the dinner be over?"

"You were late, stepmother," Adrian curtly said from afar.

Tonet knew they were late. That was the plan, but how could everyone be already gone? She expected to humiliate Riley in front of fifty guests, not a mere group of ten people!

"The engagement dinner started at five in the afternoon. So, of course, the celebration is over!" Anthony pointed out. "Some guests were asking about your presence, and I said you w
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June 14, 2024. Chapter 2-2. Thank you for waiting. As always, thank you for the love and support. The next chapter is tomorrow.

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Kate
Hi! Do we have updates today? For some reason, I don’t see the author’s noted in the end sometimes.
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Isabel Vieira
kill off Fredrick already than Tonit is left with nothing for all her sceming. than have Anthony divorce her
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soo
I love that Adrian is way ahead of Tonet and Frederick. Thank God he is smart and brilliant unlike his father Anthony, who is blind to see how wicked his wife and stepson. I hope he will regret everything that he never been a father to Adrian and redeem himself somewhere in the book.
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