Ice and Fire novel Chapter 825

Derek was chatting with Fred when suddenly he heard Mond's voice. "Here they come, a warm welcome to Mr. and Mrs. Yuwen."

Both Derek and Fred turned to glance at Wilson and Selina. Although already nervous, Sharon also looked towards Selina for some sort of assurance.

Selina, also looked towards Sharon at the same time, then moved her gaze to Derek and said, "Derek, you have come early, why, I thought you got your hands full."

"I haven't come early, my dear. Rather, it is you who has come late," Derek said and laughed at her remark.

Mond shook hands with Wilson and Fred and said, "Hello, I also feel that you people have come early!"

"We just arrived as you instructed, only following the orders that you have given," Fred smiled.

Selina then again turned to look towards Sharon.

Sharon smiled at Selina but there seemed to be some kind of hesitation in her smile. "How do you do? Mrs. Selina."

"I'm always doing well," Selina replied in an angry tone. It was quite evident that she was upset over something but no one knew what that was.

Wilson, who knew where her wife's anger generated from, touched her arm and whispered in her ear, "No matter what has happened, do not forget that she is one of our guests. Please be nice to her, you don't have to behave so badly with her."

Selina ignored what her husband just said to her and glared back at Sharon. "Mrs. Sharon, you must be enjoying your life at home, aren't you? Now that both your husband and son were hard working to earn money, you must be relaxing in peace."

"Well, yes you might be partly right." Not able to find a suitable answer to Selina's question, Sharon just chose to smile back at her.

Selina, whose eyes were filled hatred, thought, 'If the party was not going on, I would have surely taken Violet's revenge from this miserable woman right here, and no one would have stopped me from doing so!'

Derek noticed his younger sister was not in a very good mood at that time so to avoid the situation from worsening he said, "Selina, Amy was looking for you and now none of us know where she has gone. Could you please go and bring her here so that we all can discuss business?"

Selina had by now understood her elder brother's hint. She quickly turned around and left from the place.

All the people at such parties had a life of their own and that showed when they came together. While the ladies from the nobility were only bothered about showing off their dresses and jewelry the men discussed business. The whole event was spent talking about things which mattered to each one of them.

Lawrence was standing in the balcony of the second-floor room. He looked at the circle of people scattering in the garden downstairs. The atmosphere of this place was so depressing, he just did not want to be here!

"Why are you still here, you should have gone downstairs long back? The party is just about to begin." Mike walked in a hurry towards him. He hadn't expected to find Lawrence here. According to him, Lawrence should have gone downstairs by now.