Chapter 11: Eating Her Words!
The bar on the first floor was already bubbling with people’s voices by now.
Anthony was quite well-known in California. Under the power of his summons, his friends brought more friends along and filled up the place.
The lights in the entire bar were blurry, and men and women were twisting their bodies fervently on the dance floor.
Angela, who wore a long red gown, was sitting in the corner with a drink in her hand and her cheeks rosy. Next to her, her group of fair-weather friends was complimenting her.
“Hotel Finest’s not cheap, Angela. Anthony must have big plans in mind, right? Is he… going to propose?”
“He must be proposing! I’m sure of it! Isn’t your sister back? I heard that even the marriage certificate has been torn into pieces. With that, their engagement can officially be considered annulled!”
“It’s all that damned fatt… damned woman’s fault! If it hadn’t been for her hiding abroad for so many years and refusing to come back and annul the engagement, Angela and Anthony would have been married long ago!”
“Hey, why is that woman here?!”
With these words, Angela also looked at the entrance.
Nora was still dressed just as casually today. Jeans and a black T-shirt set off the skin around her neck, making it look so fair that it was glowing white.
She was expressionless, her eyes were slightly lidded, and she gave off a world-weary feeling, yet her looks were eye-catching and beautiful. As soon as she entered, she immediately attracted the attention of everyone around her.
The moment she walked in, a waiter rushed to the back. “Mr. Gray, she’s here!”
Anthony stood up immediately and walked forward. “Get ready!”
The loud music in the bar gave Nora a headache, and overwhelming irritation filled her.
She looked up. When her indifferent gaze located Angela, she walked over to her.
Before she had even gotten near, she heard a pretentious Angela say, “Why are you here, Nora? Anthony will never agree to meet you.”
As soon as she said that, her unsavory friends also spoke.
“Nora, are you here to make a scene because you caught wind that Anthony’s going to propose?”
“You were the one with immoral conduct, sleeping with some guy and getting yourself pregnant before marriage. That’s why Mr. Gray dumped you. Yet you’re here to harass him now? Where’s your sense of shame?!”
“Even if you’ve become pretty, it won’t change the fact that you’re saddled with extra baggage! Why would Mr. Gray ever pay any attention to you? Is there any point in pestering him so persistently?”
“…”
Due to the deafening music, the commotion here didn’t reach far.
Nora didn’t care what others said about her. She looked at Angela. “Tell me, where is that child?”
Angela approached her with a sardonic smile. She pointed to the sofa next to her and spoke in a voice that only the two of them could hear. “Nora, sit down obediently, watch tonight’s exciting show in its entirety, and give Anthony and I your blessings after that. If you do that, I’ll tell you.”
Nora understood now.
She wanted to use the marriage proposal scene to humiliate her. However, the private investigators didn’t have any leads at all. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, she was unwilling to give it up.
Nora sat on the sofa and leaned back. She closed her eyes, her long eyelashes casting shadows on her cheeks as she uttered, “You sure have nothing better to do.”
Angela stared at her fiercely. Things had already reached this stage, yet her sister was still so calm. It made her look like some kind of clown.
She clenched her fists. Suddenly, she started to mock Nora. “Say, Nora, if you hadn’t been fat and had always been this pretty, would Anthony have broken off the engagement?”
Nora’s eyes suddenly flew open, and a sharp glint appeared in her cat-like eyes. “What do you mean by that?”
Her obesity had been due to the mistaken use of hormonal injections.
Even though she had worked so hard to lose weight and suffered so much, it was useless. Her body needed to slowly repair its bodily functions.
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