Chapter 78

Just as North finished her meal and prepared to sneak away, she saw Steward hastily approach Gerald. “Mr. Gerald, Mrs. Lane and Ms. Jane are here.”

North immediately became attentive.

Why were they here again? Had they not embarrassed themselves enough already?

Gerald paused briefly before sneering. “I don’t want to see them.”

“I’ve told them that you’re not receiving any guests as well,” Steward said. He looked. “But they...”

Before he could finish, Jane’s plaintive cry could be heard from outside the door. “Gerald, I’m here to apologize...”

Gerald narrowed his eyes as impatience flashed across his gaze.

Both Jane and Georgia held significant statuses. The bodyguards were reluctant to intercept them if they intruded.

Jane glanced at North with an innocent and aggrieved expression.

“Gerald, I need to talk to you. Could you please ask North to leave?”

North raised an eyebrow. What an opportunist. How could she, as a guest, ask the host to leave?

She found it strange— how coul