Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 331

Chapter 331: Chapter 331: Making Things Difficult

The auctioneer replied, looking troubled, "Our people tried to persuade Mr. Miles Howell for a long time, but he refuses to budge..."

Winnie Summers sighed with regret upon hearing this.

It had been so hard to find this jade pendant, only for the owner to go back on his word. The feeling of having something within her grasp only to lose it was awful.

Seeing her mother’s disappointment, Melody Summers said to the auctioneer, "Could you please see if there’s anything else you can do? Mr. Howell can name his price; we can afford it."

The auctioneer thought for a moment before proposing, "How about this? Mr. Miles Howell himself is in the VIP lounge right now. If you’re amenable, perhaps you could meet with him and discuss it directly?"

Melody Summers and Winnie Summers exchanged a look and nodded in agreement.

...

Inside the VIP lounge, Kylie Walsh held a glass of champagne and smiled at Miles Howell. "Miles, thank you for your help."

Miles Howell waved his hand and replied nonchalantly, "Don’t mention it. It was the least I could do. When Miss Walsh asks for a favor, of course I’m happy to help."

Kylie Walsh offered a small smile, raising her champagne glass to Miles Howell. "To you," she said with a soft laugh.

Miles Howell also smiled and took a sip of champagne. He then leaned back lazily against the sofa, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "Still... I’m curious. How exactly did that woman manage to provoke Miss Walsh?"

Kylie Walsh lowered her eyes slightly. "Don’t even get me started," she replied. "She’s just some country bumpkin who’s never seen the world—arrogant, domineering, and utterly disrespectful. She actually had the nerve to bully my niece, Zara... You have no idea, she drove Zara to tears..."

Earlier, Zara Walsh had been physically escorted out of the banquet hall by hotel security. She had never been so humiliated in her entire life. The moment she was out of the hotel, she tearfully called her aunt, Kylie Walsh.

Zara Walsh didn’t dare mention her own abuse of power for personal revenge or how she had withheld supplies from The Metropolis Residences. She only said that at the banquet, Supervisor Walsh and her subordinate, Ivan Warren, had had too much to drink and started an argument with Melody Summers.

Zara claimed that when she tried to defend Supervisor Walsh, Melody Summers slapped her. She added that even Ronan Rhodes, because of Sophie Thorne, sided with Melody and had security throw her out.

Kylie Walsh was both shocked and furious. She went straight to the banquet hall to find Ronan Rhodes and demand to know why he had disregarded the ties between the Rhodes and Walsh families to let Melody Summers bully Zara.

But she didn’t get to see Ronan. A manager from the Rhodes Corporation informed her that Ronan was with Mr. Rhodes and was not available to see her.

Kylie Walsh’s greatest ambition was to marry Roman Rhodes, so she absolutely could not leave a bad impression on Mr. Rhodes. She abandoned the idea of confronting Ronan and went to find the hotel’s owner, Carter Jennings, instead.

Carter Jennings received Kylie Walsh politely enough, but he immediately had the head of security produce the surveillance footage. It clearly showed that Zara Walsh had provoked Melody Summers first and that the hotel security had simply been following protocol.

To avoid any disputes, the guards who handled Zara were all female; no male staff had touched her.

In the end, Carter Jennings suggested that if the Walsh family could not accept the outcome, they were free to call the police. The Nimbus Hotel would, of course, comply with any legal judgment.

After watching the footage, Kylie Walsh knew Zara had started the fight, so she abandoned the idea of calling the police.

But she couldn’t stand the thought of letting Melody Summers get away with it!

’A low-class nobody like Melody Summers daring to strike a young lady of the Walsh family? I absolutely cannot swallow this insult!’

’So what if Zara was wrong first? A girl like Melody Summers should just take the abuse and keep her mouth shut! What right did she have to fight back?!’

Kylie Walsh was determined to get revenge on Melody Summers. But this was a Rhodes-hosted banquet, after all; she couldn’t make a move here. She could only plot in secret, planning to have someone ambush Melody and her mother on their way home.

While Kylie was mentally devising her plan for revenge, she happened to see Melody and her mother heading to the auction. She decided to follow.

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