Hearing the commotion, Aiken wove through the crowd and looked at Denise and Ashlyn. “What’s going on?”
“Aiken, Ashlyn snuck in here to steal things! She tried to steal my bracelet just now! Tell security to drive these two thieves out before they steal anyone else’s valuables!”
Hearing Denise’s incredulous claim, Ashlyn couldn’t help but burst into dry laughter. “You’re such a good liar.”
Aiken was torn between the two ladies and tried to mediate. “It’s just a misunderstanding, Denise. We invited Ashlyn.”
When Denise heard this, her livid face turned red with embarrassment.
After making such a fuss, now she was told that it was the Evans family themselves who had invited Ashlyn.
The onlookers looked at Denise and then Ashlyn. Denise’s face was red with embarrassment, whereas Ashlyn was calm and collected. Anyone with a pair of working eyes could’ve told which one was guilty.
But Denise wasn’t about to let Ashlyn go so easily.
Gritting her teeth, she pointed at Ashlyn and shouted, “Then I want her to apologize to me! She tried to steal my bracelet just now!”
It was not the first time that Denise had framed Ashlyn like this. In Ashlyn’s three years with the Jones family, Denise had framed her over three times.
Now, Denise was playing the same trick again. Did she really take Ashlyn as a doormat?
Jessie, on the other hand, was trembling with anger. Just as she was about to give Denise an earful, Ashlyn raised her hand to stop her.
She looked back at Jessie. The latter was stunned for a moment, then nodded and bit back her anger.
“Do you really want me to apologize?” Ashlyn asked calmly.
Denise snorted. “Of course! If we hadn’t caught you, you would’ve stolen it!”
She insisted that Ashlyn tried to steal her bracelet. But ever since Ashlyn entered the hall, she hadn’t even gotten close to Denise.
Ashlyn took three glasses of wine from the buffet table and asked, “Three glasses of wine as punishment. Is that enough?”
Obviously, Denise didn’t think so, but she knew better than to make a scene. As long as she could humiliate Ashlyn, she’d be satisfied.
“Since I’m so kind, I’ll forgive you after your punishment.”
Hearing this, Ashlyn laughed. “How generous of you!”
She paused for a moment and then asked, “By the way, how much does your bracelet cost?”
“It’s a limited edition, and it cost me more than three hundred thousand dollars. Someone like you can’t afford it.”
With eyebrows raised, Ashlyn carefully walked to Denise with the three glasses of red wine in her hands. When she got close enough, she looked down at Denise and said coldly, “I’m sorry, Denise. I’m not the kind of person who would swallow humiliation.”
As she spoke, she raised the three glasses and dunked the red wine over Denise’s head.
“Ah!”
Denise screamed in shock, but Ashlyn wasn’t finished. After throwing the wine glasses on the floor, Ashlyn grabbed Denise’s wrist. At this moment, Gordon, who had been watching quietly, suddenly reached out and grabbed Ashlyn’s wrist. “That’s enough, Ashlyn!”
“Enough?”
Ashlyn sneered coldly, her voice dripping with icy disdain. “Oh, I’m just getting started.”
As she spoke, she pulled the bracelet off of Denise’s wrist.
Before Denise could come to her senses, Ashlyn ripped her prized bracelet before her very eyes.
Denise screamed in agony and wanted to get even with Ashlyn. However, before she could do anything, Ashlyn threw a check at her face and said casually, “It’s just a bracelet worth less than four hundred thousand dollars. How cheap!”
After throwing the check, Ashlyn turned around and said to Jessie, “Let’s go.”
Jessie nodded. Before leaving, she glanced at Denise and wrinkled her nose in disgust. “Is she out of her mind?”
Ashlyn shrugged. “Who knows?”
“Her bracelet is worth less than four hundred thousand dollars. Did she seriously think that you couldn’t afford it?” Jessie snorted.
The voices of the two were neither loud nor low, but Denise heard them clearly.
Denise couldn’t control herself anymore. “Stop, Ashlyn!”
As she shouted, she started to chase after Ashlyn. But before she could take two steps, Gordon grabbed her by the wrist.
Denise was so angry that when she was forcibly stopped, she turned around to curse her captor. But when her eyes met Gordon’s, she instantly stiffened. “Gordon…”
“Don’t you feel ashamed of yourself yet? Enough!”
Denise and her friends had falsely accused Ashlyn of sneaking in with a stolen invitation. When that failed, they accused Ashlyn of stealing Denise’s bracelet.
But instead of explaining herself, Ashlyn simply ripped Denise’s bracelet and paid for it. This action was enough to prove that she didn’t give a damn about the bracelet.
Just then, someone in the crowd gasped, “Oh, my God! Ashlyn’s earrings—aren’t they from the Bay Pearl series?”
“Maybe they are fake. The Bay Pearl series is only sold as a set that costs over thirty million dollars.”
“They don’t look fake. Look, the bracelet on her wrist matches the earrings! It’s a set! Oh, my God! I’ve been wanting the Bay Pearl series since forever, but I can’t afford it…”
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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