Nemesis Game novel Chapter 18

While they were both known to be polite, the situation between Gabriel and Ruben was getting tense. The other presidents at the meeting were holding their breath.

What was going on today? Gabriel was known for having a great temper, but he went against Ruben because of a woman?

The air became heavy and suffocating.

Ruben’s gaze was sharp and cold like a blade, and he locked his gaze on Gabriel and Samantha.

“I’m surprised that you care so much about my personal affairs, Mr. Baker,” said Ruben in a low and emotionless voice, “I cannot help but think that you probably have a crush on me, not on her.”

Samantha didn’t know that Ruben could be so sharp-tongued.

Was he trying to gossip about Gabriel? Sarcastically saying that Gabriel was in love with him?

Samantha looked to the side and Gabriel wasn’t affected at all. He wasn’t even mad, “Mr. Knight, you are thinking too much. My sexual orientation is normal.”

“Really, I can’t tell,” Ruben squinted his eyes, giving out an oppressive aura.

Samantha found it hard to breathe all of a sudden. Ruben was Ruben. It had been a while and she was still traumatized by him.

But she didn’t love him anymore.

Why should she still be afraid of him?

She should grow some backbone and try to look into his eyes without any fear.

Samantha wasn’t Samantha anymore. She was now Helena.

“Mr. Knight, there’s a lot of things that one can’t tell just by looking, just like how I can’t tell what you are thinking right now. Your wife just died in a fire, yet you announced your marriage with Ms. Moore and flaunted it around.” Gabriel’s tone of voice was turning serious, with a hint of mockery and antipathy, “I pity Mrs. Knight.”

Ruben’s pupil contracted and there was a wave of emotions surging in his eyes.

Normally, he was good at controlling his emotions, but his whole body was exploding in rage right now, “Gabriel…”

He didn’t move and was just standing still, but the way he said his name sent shivers down their spines.

“I don’t want to hear a word about that woman, and my patience is running thin.”

His voice was calm and emotionless, yet it was cutting open Samantha’s calm face like a sharp knife.

That woman?

Samantha felt like someone threw hot sand into her body and it was burning her flesh.

Her gaze cracked, the fine lines seemed to be filled with deep agony.

Ruben hated her so much that he didn’t even want to hear her name after she died.

She thought she couldn’t feel pain anymore, but her heart was hurting as if it was trying to remind her about the anguish.

“Haha…” Samantha who was standing next to Gabriel suddenly laughed. She looked up and one could see her nicely shaped chin, “Mr. Baker, you are wrong.”

“Hmm?” Gabriel looked at her quietly with his amber coloured eyes.

Samantha laughed and met Ruben’s eyes. She said every word clearly with disgust and contempt, “Mrs. Knight wasn’t pitiful, she was just blind.”

She swept her plainful gaze across his cold face. She smiled even more profoundly.

“If she wasn’t blind, why would she marry such a man?”

Her tone of voice was filled with disdain and sarcasm, there was also deep hatred in her eyes.

Her pain was all covered up by her hatred,

It went silent in the room.

What she said triggered Ruben, and he felt like his heart was being stabbed by a knife.

Samantha married him because she was blind?

No, he never wanted to marry her in the first place. It was all her doing and she did everything to achieve it.