Suddenly, a deep, cold voice sounded from behind them. “You don’t have to give Denise the money, but you do have to apologize to her.”
Gordon approached and held up the check in front of Ashlyn.
Ashlyn expressionlessly took the piece of paper out of his hand.
After that, she stood up and looked Gordon up and down. “And what if I don’t?”
“Then don’t blame her for making trouble for you.”
Ashlyn suddenly broke into a smile. “Okay. I’ll look forward to it.”
Hearing this, Gordon was rendered speechless. And the stupid smile on her face made him inexplicably angry. “Whatever.”
After saying that, he turned around and walked away.
Gordon knew Denise wouldn’t let Ashlyn get away with what happened tonight. Although Ashlyn had succeeded in embarrassing her tonight, Denise would definitely come up with other ways to get her in trouble.
If it weren’t for the fact that Ashlyn was his ex-wife, he wouldn’t have gotten himself involved in these trivial things at all.
But Ashlyn was ungrateful. Such being the case, he decided to wait for her to come and beg for mercy.
As Ashlyn watched Gordon walk away, the smile on her face faded little by little.
Standing next to her, Jessie spat. “Birds of a feather flock together! I’m so glad you divorced him. I doubt there’s such a thing as a good Jones.”
Hearing what Jessie said, Ashlyn averted her gaze and smiled faintly. “Perhaps you’re right.”
As soon as she finished speaking, her phone started to ring. It was Ernest, the driver.
Ashlyn tugged Jessie’s arm and said, “Let’s go. Ernest is back.”
“Okay! I hope we don’t run into anyone annoying!”
As the two walked out of the hotel, they saw that Ernest was already waiting for them by the gate.
After dropping Jessie off in her villa, Ashlyn went back to her apartment.
It was still early by the time she got home since they had left the party so early.
But she had a big day tomorrow, and Ashlyn was exhausted after giving Denise a lesson tonight. Right after taking a shower, she went straight to bed.
The news of what had happened at the banquet spread like wildfire, and netizens were still talking about it the following morning.
Four months ago, Ashlyn and Gordon’s divorce had caused an uproar in the city. Now, Ashlyn’s retaliation caused yet another uproar, so media outlets were scrambling to spread the news.
When she awoke the following morning, Ashlyn was in a good mood.
Denise, on the other hand, was in a terrible mood. After getting some sleep the night before, she felt a little better, but as soon as she read the notifications on her phone, her expression darkened.
Denise checked her Instagram account and found that all the netizens were saying that she was stupid and rude and that Ashlyn had done a good job teaching her a lesson.
The more she read, the worse Denise felt and she burst into tears. She had no appetite and spent the entire morning crying into her pillow.
Jenifer came into her room and sighed helplessly. “Why did you have to provoke her in the first place?”
Denise felt even more aggrieved when she heard Jenifer’s piercing words. “Mom, aren’t you on my side? She just humiliated me in front of everyone! Didn’t you see?”
Frowning slightly, Jenifer pointed out, “You used to bully her a lot, didn’t you?”
“When did I ever bully her? I just wanted her to know that she didn’t deserve my brother.”
Denise never considered her actions towards Ashlyn as bullying. If it weren’t for the fact that Ashlyn had married into their family, why would Denise have made things difficult for her?
In Denise’s anger, she believed that Ashlyn paid those netizens to leave nasty comments about her. A thought suddenly occurred to her. She abruptly stopped crying and called her friend Mara on her phone.
It was not until her meeting was over that Ashlyn found out what Denise had done. Jessie explained everything over the phone, and Ashlyn couldn’t help but burst into laughter. “Let her do whatever she wants.”
Was this all that Denise was capable of?
She had made up such a lame story to slander Ashlyn on the Internet.
When she read the so-called negative news about herself on the Internet, Ashlyn started to wonder if Denise was truly Gordon’s biological sister.
How could there be such a big difference between their IQs?
Just then, there was a knock on the door. Ashlyn briskly pushed these thoughts to the back of her mind and said, “Come in.”
Talia opened the door and strode in, toting a document. “Just now, Mr. Perkins’ secretary said that he won’t be able to attend the dinner with Highlight Group tonight and asked you to go instead.”
Ashlyn’s eyebrows shot up. “Who will be there?”
“Robbie Powell.”
“I see.”
Fairway Group and Highlight Group had been in cooperation with each other for some time now. The contract was about to expire, so it was high time they discussed whether they should renew the contract.
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