Seven Years a Fool One Day a Queen (Kristine and Colton) novel Chapter 365

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When he turned back around and saw the tight, short dress Belle was wearing his handsome face darkened instantly “Who said you could dress this shotty?

Change

Suty?

Belle looked down at her chest, fat as an airport runway, and felt that description was a lime off

Or maybe he was confusing her with Lilith and her glant boobs.

ndignant, Belle snapped. Whether I look slutty or not is none of your business

hey were just in a contract marriage, and that contract was practically about to expire. Wasn’t he overstepping a limey

efore Ambrose could say anything, Belle impatiently asked,

Shouldn’t you be with Lilith right now? What are you even doing here?

food killer.

ince when was my business yours to question?” Ambrose had always spoken bluntly.

elle let out a cold laugh. “Then why are you sticking your nose into my business? Our contract’s almost up anyway. From now on, we can each do our own ing Fair and square. You don’t control me, and I don’t control you.”

e could dote on his precious childhood sweetheart.

se could go find her pretty boys.

That was so complicated about that? It was perfectly fair.

nfortunately-

uinn Dog was called a dog for a reason. Double standards were basically in his blood,

e could flirt with his childhood sweetheart in every public setting imaginable, yet couldn’t tolerate Belle having even the slightest connection to another man.

st the worst kind of male hypocrisy.

ven if he didn’t love Belle.

ooks like you didn’t read our contract very carefully,” Ambrose said with a cold laugh. “Solet me kindly remind you–during the contract period, you are not lowed to cheat on me. Otherwise, you’ll owe ten times the compensation specified in the agreement.”

oney, money, money.

ways damn money.

nd the worst part was, she really was too broke to stand tall, which was exactly why Ambrose could keep pinning her down with it.

being Belle fall silent, Ambrose knew his threat had worked. His tone softened slightly compared to before. “Grandma’s in Washington. You’re coming back

ith me.”

elle instantly understood.

lo wonder he could leave Lilith behind and come looking for her here.

o it was because Grandma had arrived, and he had no way to explain her absence. That was why he’d come to fetch her

The doctor said Grandma’s blood pressure has been high these past two days. You’d better not throw a tantrum with me right now.” Ambrose even had the udacity to sound considerate,

Keep up.”

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With that, he turned and walked off.

Belle held in her anger for a while, but in the end, she still followed him.

Not for any other reason.

she was only going with him for Grandma’s sake.

Back in the private room, Eliza hadn’t been waiting long before she received a message from Belle.

3abe. I’m not going back to your place tonight. Don’t worry about me. I’ll come apologize properly tomorrow.

After thinking for a moment, Eliza replied with only one line:

le careful.

he still couldn’t wrap her head around how Belle had gotten tangled up with the Quinn family of North City–let alone ended up married to Ambrose, the head f the Quinn family.

I was absurd.

With Belle gone, Eliza had no choice but to risk her life and drink with Camille.

he had barely attended any drinking events these past few years. Her alcohol tolerance had long since gone downhill.

ven Camille could tell. Smiling, she said, “Back then, you used to brag that you could drink a thousand cups without getting drunk. I was honestly so jealous of our tolerance. You know how it is–when you work on projects, being able to drink well can be seriously useful.”

liza agreed with that.

strong alcohol tolerance could absolutely be an asset in business entertainment.

I some places, there was even an unspoken rule: three drinks down, contract in hand.

‘ve been busy with school these past few years and haven’t been out running projects myself, so with fewer social events, my tolerance naturally dropped

t the same time, Eliza advised her, “Drinking capacity may be a kind of soft power in business settings, but you still have to take care of your health. I drank y stomach into the ground back then.”

amille sighed. “True enough. But when you’re in the business world, who can really stay untouched?”

hen she asked curiously, “So from the sound of it, your tolerance was trained up? Can you tell me how? I might teach some of the people under me.”

ow?

liza thought back for a moment. “First you have to know your own limit. Once you know that, you’ll have a better sense of where to stop during social rinking, If you keep it within that range, your body’s alcohol tolerance gradually increases, and your capacity goes up too.”

amille looked troubled. “But during business dinners, you’re busy talking projects. Who has the attention to keep track of how much they ve had? Or what Ley’ve even been drinking?”

hat made Eliza pause,

I really was easy to overlook.

Back then, it had only been because of Calvin’s reminders that she started paying attention to when she was reaching her limit

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‘ou needed someone keeping track of those things for you.

During the period when she was building up her tolerance, Calvin had always been by her side at those business events.

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only after she had truly reached the point of being impossible to get drunk did she gradually start handling those occasions alone.

he hadn’t paid attention to it at the time. It was only now that she remembered.

ll these years, Eliza had automatically shut out everything related to Calvin.

nd yet today, people kept forcing her to think of him, forcing her to remember things from the past.

strange irritability settled over her. Naturally, she ended up drinking more than she should have.

Camille, I’m going to the restroom.” Eliza rose to her feet, swaying a little.

ne of the pretty boy hosts beside her immediately said, “Babe, I’ll go with you.”

here was technically a restroom inside the VIP room, but Eliza wanted to stand in the cold air for a while and sober up, so she went to the one outside instead.

Then she came back out and saw that the young host was still waiting for her, she leaned lazily against the wall and said, “You can head back. No need to stay ith me. I’m going to get some air.”

fter saying that, she started toward the balcony on the other side.

ut the guy followed anyway.

er body still swayed unsteadily. “You don’t have to follow me. I’m not drunk.”

he had barely finished speaking when she stumbled and nearly fell.

hen a strong arm hooked around her waist.

Thanks.” Eliza said, her gaze blurred with drink as she turned to look at him.

he light was behind him, so she couldn’t make out his face clearly–only the rough outline.

hen she smiled.

You really do look a lot like my ex–boyfriend.”

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