“I don’t remember. I never bother with people like them. I only came tonight to accompany you, otherwise my mom and I wouldn’t have shown up.”
She was doing it all for Serena.
Serena laughed. “I’ll knit you some small animals when I have the time. What animals do you want? I’ll gift them to you.”
“I want all of the twelve zodiac signs.”
“Sure. Give me some time and I’ll send them to you after I’m done. But make sure not to show them off. Zack is a petty person and will get jealous.”
Zack was jealous by nature.
Elisa laughed. “Just be happy with what you got. You don’t know how many people want to experience his domineering side.”
“Yeah, yeah, I’m happy with what I have now.
“I wonder who Ms. Newman will give that cup of wine to.”
Serena kept an eye on Ms. Newman and saw that the latter did not give the cup of drugged wine to anyone else, nor did she drink it herself.
Serena was a little curious. What was Ms. Newman planning?
Soon, she got her answer.
It was not that Ms. Newman did not want to give the glass of wine to anyone, but the person she wanted to give it to had just arrived.
A motorcycle drove into the Dowling family villa. In the yard full of luxury cars, the motorcycle stood out like a sore thumb.
The person who rode the motorcycle was a girl in her twenties, but she was not the center of attention here. The focus was on the woman sitting behind her while holding a bouquet of flowers. When she got off the motorcycle, she waved a white cane to feel about the road ahead and slowly walked forward.
She was blind!
Serena put down her glass and sat upright, watching the blind girl slowly walk toward the large lawn with the bouquet in one hand and the white cane in the other.
A photo came into her mind.
It was the wife candidate that Grandma May picked out for Callum. Grandma
May wanted Callum to pursue and marry her within a year or he would bear the consequences.
Yes, her last name was Newman.
Camryn Newman. She was the stepdaughter and niece of Mr. Newman, the head of Newman Enterprise.
Serena did not expect to see Camryn at the Dowling family banquet.
Camryn walked very slowly, mainly because she could not see.
The parking area was not far from the second daughter of the Newman family,
Carrie Newman. An ordinary person would only need to walk for two minutes, but Camryn walked for ten minutes before she reached Carrie.
“I told you to send a bouquet of flowers over, but you took long enough. It’s a miracle how your store hasn’t closed down when your delivery speed is so slow.”
Carrie was six years younger than Camryn and would be turning twenty this year. She was the first child that Mrs. Newman gave birth to after marrying her brother-in-law and was deeply loved by the couple. The Newman family was rich with assets worth a billion, but no one knew how wealthy they were. Carrie was spoiled by her parents and developed a capricious and unruly nature.
The person she hated the most was Camryn. She always felt that Camryn stole the title of the eldest daughter of the family, which should have belonged to her.
Even if they shared the same mother, the sisters were like enemies.
Camryn waited for her sister to finish her sarcasm, then handed the bouquet to her sister and said indifferently, “I’ve sent you the flowers you want. Please pay two hundred bucks.”
‘You want two hundred bucks for a bunch of silly flowers?”
Camryn faced her sister. She wore a large pair of shades that covered part of her face, and her expression remained bland when faced with her sister’s question. ‘The bouquet was customized according to your request. It’ll cost two hundred no matter which store you buy it from.”
“Fine, two hundred it is.”
Carrie took the bouquet and handed the glass of wine to Camryn. Camryn did not take it.
“Help me drink this glass of wine.”
She shoved the glass into Camryn’s hand.
Camryn held the glass and said after a moment of silence, “I don’t drink wine.”
“Do you want your money or not? Do you want to continue running your flower shop? If you don’t drink the wine, then you won’t receive the money from me. I’ll wreck your shop too.”
Camryn tightened her grip on the stem of the wine glass to prevent herself from impulsively pouring the wine on Carrie. Her sister was doted on by her mother and stepfather, so she could not afford to offend her!
Carrie took out a thousand dollars worth of bills and waved it in front of Camryn, saying, “Do you smell that? It’s money. I prepared a thousand bucks for you. As long as you drink the wine, the money is yours. It’ll be two hundred for the flowers and eight hundred for the delivery fees.”
The people around watched the sisters’ confrontation. No one stood up for
Camryn.
They seemed to be used to this scene.
Mrs. Newman was talking to a few ladies not far away. She was aware of what her two daughters were doing, but she did not move and continued to chat calmly with the others.
Camryn was silent for a long time before asking her sister, ‘You’ll pay for the flowers after I drink this?”
‘There are so many people around to testify. As long as you drink the wine, I’ll give you one grand.”
“Fine.”
Camryn brought the glass close to her lips and was just about to drink it.
Suddenly, a hand reached out and snatched the glass away.
“Don’t drink it.”
It was an unfamiliar voice.
Camryn identified the other party’s location through her voice and turned her head to face the stranger with a puzzled expression.
The person who snatched away her glass of wine was Serena.
Other people were just watching the show, but Serena could not simply stand by because she knew that Carrie had spiked the wine. It was clear that Carrie had bad intentions. Who knew what would happen to Camryn if she drank it?
It would be fine if Serena did not know that Camryn was the wife candidate who Grandma May picked out for Callum, but since she knew, she had to step in and protect Camryn.
‘This has nothing to do with you, Ms. Hunt.”
Carrie’s expression darkened when she saw that it was Serena. She was not willing to call Serena Mrs. York because it made her feel that she was inferior to a country bumpkin.
“I saw Ms. Carrie drug this glass of wine earlier.”
The person who said this was not Serena, but Elisa.
Elisa did not know why Serena was meddling, but since the latter made a move, she did not lag behind and interjected as well. She did not care about someone of Carrie’s status.
She directly exposed Carrie’s plot.
“Ms. Stone, you can put whatever you want into your mouth, but you should be more mindful of what comes out of it. Which eye of yours saw that I drugged the wine?”
Elisa raised her chin and said arrogantly, “I have two eyes. I saw it with both of them.”
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