Chapter 1000
Married at First Sight
âAfter spending half an hour in the house, the most I gained was a name card.â Elisa laughed.
âThat sounds about right.
Everyone is in it for profit.
Who would want to care about you if there was nothing to gain? What do you want to eat? Iâll go get you some food.â âI saw some delicate pastries earlier.
They look delicious.
Bring some for me.
I ate a little at the store, so Iâm not that hungry.â Serenity had a sweet tooth and wanted to try some of the exquisite snacks.
Enter title⦠In the past, when she accompanied Jasmine and Aunt Rachel to parties, Jasmine and she would just hide in the corner to eat and drink.
She liked the pastries the most.
They were always much better than the ones she got from stores.
âSure.â Elisa placed her glass of red wine on the small table in front of her and got up to help Serenity get food.
A while later, she returned empty-handed, but she was followed by two maids working for the Dowlings.
The maids held trays with the food that Elisa had picked out for Serenity and herself.
âLeave them here for me, thanks.â The two maids put down the trays, excused themselves, and turned around to serve the others.
The two cousins hid in the corner, eating and drinking.
No one dared come over to disturb them either, mainly because Elisa had a bad temper.
She would not show any respect if a person she did not look favorably upon approached her, and no one could afford to be humiliated on an occasion like this.
âSeren.â Elisa suddenly nudged Serenity and gestured for her to look at a girl who was standing in another corner.
The girl fetched a packet of something from her delicate purse and poured it into her glass of wine.
Then, she turned around and walked back into the crowd as if nothing had happened.
She did not notice Elisa and Serenity the entire time, so she did not know that her movements were being watched.
âWhat did she add to the drink?â Elisa said, âProbably some kind of drug.
Itâll dissolve in the wine, and the taste of wine will cover it up, so the person drinking it wonât be able to tell that it was spiked.
I wonder who her target is.
She must be trying to incur the Dowlingsâ wrath by doing something like this at Ms.
Dowlingâs birthday party.â âI think we bumped into her when we first arrived.
Her last name is Newman, right?â âI donât remember.
I never bother with people like them.
I only came tonight to accompany you, otherwise my mom and I wouldnât have shown up.â She was doing it all for Serenity.
Serenity laughed.
âIâll knit you some small animals when I have the time.
What animals do you want? Iâll gift them to you.â âI want all of the twelve zodiac signs.â âSure.
Give me some time and Iâll send them to you after Iâm done.
But make sure not to show them off.
Zachary is a petty person and will get jealous.â Zachary was jealous by nature.
Elisa laughed.
âJust be happy with what you got.
You donât know how many people want to experience his domineering side.â âYeah, yeah, Iâm happy with what I have now.
âI wonder who Ms.
Newman will give that cup of wine to.â