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“Who?” Aaron and Xante asked.
“You’ll know soon enough if he’s willing to help me.” Corinne felt that it was best not to tell them who she planned
to seek help from until she was sure that person was willing to help.
Aaron and Xante looked at each other. Neither could guess who Corinne wanted to seek.
The three of them had lunch in the bedroom. When Corinne asked someone to come in to clean up the dishes,
Bowen followed the servants in and passed on a message. “Ma’am, the card table has been set up. Madam Pamela
invited you and your friends for a round of card games.”
‘Guess she hasn’t forgotten about the card game, then…’ Corinne thought. She nodded and said, “We’ll head down
right away.”
After Bowen excused himself, Corinne turned and told the two of them, “We’re playing card games with her.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAlthough Aaron and Xante were hardly interested in card games, they did not dare to disobey their boss’s orders.
Pamela had told her servant to arrange the card table in the quiet and elegant tea room.
After Corinne assigned two maids to keep watch over the soundly asleep Joey, she brought Aaron and Xante down.
When she arrived at the living room, she saw Pamela interceding between Annie and Francine. She specifically
requested Francine to apologize to Annie.
Annie was never the kind of person who held grudges, so she just nodded and forgave Francine without another
word.
However, Aaron was not too happy to see that.
When Corinne came down with Aaron and Xante, Pamela waved at them with an affectionate smile.
“Over here, Corinne! Tell your friends to play some card games with me. It’s been a while since I last played, and
I’m feeling like it today!”
Corinne smiled and brought her two friends over to sit around the table.
Annie did now know how to play cards, so she took a chair and sat next to Pamela. She helped the old lady hold the
cards while learning the rules. Throughout the entire time, she did not look at Aaron at all and seemed to be
deliberately avoiding him.
Aaron, who sat opposite Pamela, glanced at Annie from time to time.
Francine insisted on joining the game since she knew how to play cards. Meanwhile, Xante sat next to Corinne and
played as a team.
Their agreement with Corinne was to take it easy and ensure Pamela was happy. However, as soon as Aaron sat at
the table, he seemed to have forgotten what Corinne told him and targeted Francine deliberately.
After a few rounds, Francine got so angry that she wanted to flip the table. That was when she remembered the
advice Chester gave her before leaving. He had hoped that she would change her temper, so she decided to take a
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmdeep breath and bear with it.
Pamela was astute enough to tell Aaron was deliberately making the game difficult for Francine. She could not find
it in herself to blame him either after those remarks that Francine made about him.
Nevertheless, Aaron still made a point to lighten the atmosphere around Pamela. As a result, her mood improved
even more.
It was already evening by the time they were done with a few rounds.
Pamela invited them all to have dinner, but both Aaron and Xante declined. Annie turned down the offer politely
too, and she walked out of the house together with Aaron and Xante.
Rather than get into Aaron’s car, she politely waved goodbye to Xante and went off alone.
Aaron told his driver to follow her slowly. He then lowered the window and said to her, “Get in. I’ll send you home.”
Annie continued walking and did not even bother to look at him. “Thanks for the offer, but I’m good. I’m not
planning on going home right now.”
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