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242 Love & Hatred

Author: Nyx Rai
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-20 23:56:02

The love-and-hatred show is still on as Scar and Damian quarrel. Johnny Vanderbilt would raise his plate instantly after the host announces Anna’s call or even faster, and Anna would pout, bite her lips, and glare over before she raises again. Her face is like a painting plate, changing color in seconds as if every one of his calls is like a bomb blowing up on her face.

The phone call comes in at that moment--

Anna’s phone rings, breaking the silence in the room, loud and clear. She glances at it with an indifferent face, not picking it up. But her hand hesitates to raise her plate again.

“Who could be calling her?” Scar murmurs to Damian. All of Anna’s family is down there by her side. Her parents died years ago. So who could be so important to her that a phone call from him could hesitate her decision?

Seeing all these, Johnny Vanderbilt suddenly raises his plate again, this time announcing himself: “Two billion.”

Anna’s tears break out as her hand drapes powerlessly -- it’s not the
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