Chapter 397

With a crisp sound, the wine glass in the young woman’s hand fell to the floor and shattered into

pieces.

The red wine splashed onto Harriet’s snow-white dress, leaving ugly red stains on it.

“I’m sorry… I’m so sorry.”

When the woman saw that Harriet’s dress was stained, she was panic-stricken. She kept bowing and

apologizing.

“Are you blind? Look at what you’ve done. How dare you stain my dress! Do you know how precious

this is?”

Harriet was so angry that she pushed the woman to the floor.

Unfortunately, the woman fell on the tiny pieces of broken glass.

“Ahhh!”

The woman couldn’t help screaming in pain as the broken glass pierced into her right arm and hand.

Bright red blood immediately gushed out of her wounds.

She raised her right arm, dripping with blood.

Harriet was also startled when she saw this.

People around were all looking at them now, whispering to each other.

The noise also attracted the attention of the head waiter.

He rushed over only to see a mess on the floor and the woman’s ghastly pale face. The woman

struggled to stand up, still trembling. The blood flowing from her arm dripped to the floor and mixed with

the red wine. The scene was very frightening.

“What the hell is going on here?”

The head waiter’s face darkened, and he almost fainted. Just now, he was distracted by Eli and

Eliana’s dance. How could such a thing happen all of a sudden?

The woman was a harp player and was supposed to do the last performance tonight.

Now that she was wounded, how could she perform?

The woman was in unbearable pain. Tears streamed down her face like a waterfall. She choked, “I…”

Before she could say anything, Harriet’s loud voice interrupted her.

“How rude!” She turned to the crowd and said, “This woman suddenly ran into me, so she fell to the

floor and cut herself on the broken glass. Now she’s crying as if I hurt her.”

She falsely accused the woman instead of admitting her own mistake.

“No, I didn’t. Yes, I bumped into this lady. But she pushed…”

With tears in her eyes, the woman tried to explain. But Harriet interrupted her again.

“Liar! You fell on your own. You just want to blackmail me.”

Harriet sternly scolded the woman who had no way to defend herself. She looked around and found no

one was willing to speak for her. So she had to look at the head waiter expectantly.

“Sir, please believe me. I really didn’t fall on my own.”

The head waiter looked at the woman who was crying and then at Harriet who he couldn’t afford to

offend. All he could do was comfort the woman. “Don’t cry. You bumped into this lady. As for your

wounds… You can go and bandage it.”

The woman stared at the head waiter in disbelief. She stood there helplessly, shivering.

The noise attracted the attention of all the people present, and they gradually gathered around.

Eliana and Eli were standing far from them. They heard the noise, but the crowd blocked their view, so

they didn’t know what was happening.

The banquet was very lively. The smell of women’s perfume mixed with the smell of men’s alcohol in

the air. Eli disliked the smell, and those hypocritical courtesies made him feel tired.

“Eliana, it’s too noisy here. Let’s go out and get some fresh air.”

That was just what Eliana wanted, so she agreed, “Okay, let’s go for a walk.”

Just when the two of them stepped out of the hall, someone suddenly appeared and draped a black

coat over Eliana’s shoulders.

“It’s cold outside. Don’t run around.”

Eliana turned around, and her eyes widened when she saw the man.

“Maurice… You’re here.”

Maurice was the host of the banquet, but he arrived late.

His brows furrowed as he stared at her dress. His inner possessiveness surged wildly.

When he saw her figure from a distance just now, he felt something was wrong. It was not until she

turned around that he saw her outfit clearly.

How could she dress like this?

Was she deliberately going against him? How dare she wear such a revealing dress!

When Maurice thought that everyone here had already seen Eliana dressed like this before he arrived,

he was furious.

“Eliana, you take no account of my words, right? You wear such a dress to this banquet to go against

me. How dare you!”

When Eliana heard his accusation, she suddenly got very angry.

Maurice was the one who chose this dress for her, and he insisted that she should wear it. Now that

she did as he ordered, he still found fault with her.

“Maurice, don’t be unreasonable. It’s you…”

Eliana suddenly stopped.

Something seemed not right.

The anger on Maurice’s face didn’t seem fake.

She had been with him for so long, and she knew him well. He would not deny what he had done

unless he didn’t do it at all.

Eliana suddenly recalled the scene when Harriet came to give her the dress. She was now enlightened.

This was not the dress Maurice gave her.

Harriet must have deliberately changed it.