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Chapter 11\u00a0<\/p>\n
1\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 11\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that Tristan kept showing up everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just then, the elevator doors slid open.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan looked up, completely at ease. \u201cGenevieve, what a coincidence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He stepped in first, but he didn\u2019t hit the close button. His gaze stayed on her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve stood where she was, resistance written all over her expression. She would rather take the stairs than share a confined space with this man.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan seemed to read her mind. He gave a low chuckle. \u201cWhat, you\u2019re that scared? Are you afraid I\u2019ll eat you?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He dragged out the last word, his voice turning low and intimate, like a lover\u2019s whisper. He was clearly provoking her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve walked into the elevator anyway and deliberately took the farthest corner, bristling like an angry cat.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not divorced from your brother yet, so show some respect!\u201d she said coldly. \u201cIf he finds out you\u2019re talking to me like this, you won\u2019t have an easy time with the Lamberts.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan didn\u2019t bother holding back and laughed. He found it ridiculous that Genevieve thought Zachary was someone she could use against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The elevator doors closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve turned her face away, not bothering to look at him again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The elevator reached the gala floor quickly. The moment the doors opened, she walked out without looking back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan didn\u2019t follow right away. He stayed in the shadows by the elevator, watching the red figure disappear into the crowd.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Hale.\u201d Adrian appeared behind him and respectfully handed over the signed contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMs. Whitfield signed it. And she seems very interested in Ocean\u2019s Embrace.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tristan took the contract and flipped through it casually, his gaze still fixed on the distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adrian hesitated, but couldn\u2019t stop himself. \u201cMr. Hale, Ocean\u2019s Embrace is deeply meaningful to you. Are you sure it should be used as a prize-\u2018\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before he could finish speaking, Tristan cut him off with a sharp look.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adrian swallowed the rest of his words and fell silent at once. He gave a bow and withdrew.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the shadows, Tristan was left alone. He reached into his inner pocket and pulled out a necklace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The gemstone glowed a deep ocean blue in his palm. It radiated a mysterious, irresistible allure.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His long fingers brushed the cold stone, and a faint smile curved at the corner of his lips.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If he wanted to reel in a big fish, the bait had to be tempting enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve walked into the main hall and saw Hannah rushing over.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the competition, Genevieve couldn\u2019t use her identity as Zachary\u2019s wife or expose that she was Cen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For now, Hannah was her best cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Just as Genevieve started toward Hannah, two people stepped in ahead of her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
X CLOSE\u00a0<\/p>\n
Chapter 11\u00a0<\/p>\n
2\/2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Regina clung to Zachary\u2019s arm, her smile overly eager. \u201cMs. Brooks, hello. My name is Regina Sloane. I\u2019ve heard so much about you. I never thought that I\u2019d get to meet you in person today. It\u2019s such an honor!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The second Hannah saw them, anger flared in her chest. She\u2019d been waiting for a chance to get back at Regina and Zachary for Genevieve, and they\u2019d just handed it to her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her mind was instantly filled with scenes from that obscene video and everything Genevieve had endured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hannah glanced at Zachary, then fixed her gaze on Regina.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She lifted her hand and fanned the air in front of her nose with effortless elegance, her brows knitting in open disgust. \u201cStay away from me. You smell disgusting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The smile on Regina\u2019s face stiffened. She instinctively raised her wrist and smelled it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She was wearing a new fragrance she had just blended, made with premium materials. How could it possibly stink?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zachary clenched his jaw as he watched his lover being humiliated, barely holding himself back\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHannie, what\u2019s wrong?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Genevieve had just walked over and caught that remark full of contempt. She stopped in her tracks, a laugh almost slipping\u00a0<\/p>\n
out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It seemed that Hannah was really good with words when it came to cutting people down. And Genevieve liked it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0 Chapter 11\u00a0 1\/2\u00a0 Chapter 11\u00a0 Genevieve couldn\u2019t shake the feeling that Tristan kept showing up everywhere.\u00a0 Just then, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-you-chose-her-so-i-married-better"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kezpres.xyz\/novelreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}