Just then, a voice spoke.“I don’t know if he was invited.”The crowd looked in the direction of the voice and saw a woman in a lavish evening gown and thick make-up. She sneered, “But what I do know is that I saw him collecting trash at Longford Park today.“I don’t think a mere trash collector would know our great Miss Chloe Sommerset, would he?”As soon as Jennie said that, the whole room erupted.“There’s no way Miss Chloe knows someone like that! Chase him out!”“He told such a tall tale, but he never guessed that he would be exposed just like that.”“I can’t believe Silvia has a friend like him. What a shocker.”Right now, everyone was looking at Philip with nothing but contempt and disgust.Philip was unmoved in the face of all their accusations. Instead, he turned to look at Jennie.He had met earlier that day; in fact, he was the one who had her thrown out. He then looked to her side and saw a sniggering Mickey.So he was here too. No wonder.Did Old Man George not
They looked in the direction of the voice and saw the crowd parting as though before a tide.A cold beauty in a white dress was striding toward them.She was tall and slender, with an air of invincibility. She looked around the crowd, and her gaze made many girls back away, defeated by her perfection.When her beautiful eyes swept across them, the cold arrogance in them made countless attendees lower their heads, as though they stood before the queen of a snowy kingdom.“Who is she?”Someone in the crowd sneered.One of his friends had recognized the woman, and he hastily clapped his hand over his companion’s mouth, his face pale. “Are you mad? That’s Miss Chloe Somerset! Don’t you recognize her?”“Miss Chloe?”The first man who spoke froze. He then suddenly remembered something, all the blood draining from his face as he hurriedly held his tongue.The woman was none other than Chloe Somerset.“Miss Chloe?”Mr. Moseby’s expression changed the second he saw Chloe. He suddenly
“How could he know Miss Chloe? Impossible!”The moment he saw Chloe, Mickey’s expression changed and he gasped out loud.“Mickey-baby, who’s Chloe Sommerset exactly?”Jennie asked curiously.Chloe had always kept a low profile and rarely ever joined the Riverdale elites in their parties, so very few people knew about her.If it were not for Philip, she would not have organized this birthday party today either.“She’s the granddaughter of Old Master Sommerset from Capital City and Hans Sommerset’s youngest daughter.”Mickey’s face twitched as he answered Jenie’s question in a whisper.“That’s her?”Jennie was stunned, while Yvonne and the others next to her felt their hearts skip a beat as well.Hans Sommerset was much more well-known than his daughter.He was the direct heir to the Sommersets, Old Master Sommerset’s son and the current head of the family.He controlled the number one family in Capital City, the Sommersets.Even outside of Riverdale, anyone in the entire pr
Wynn was on her way back to the hospital after work when she received her cousin’s call.“What’s wrong with Philip?”Wynn chuckled, hailing down a cab by the curb.“Do you think I’m lying, Wynn? Why would I? You just have to come to Sunset Villa and you’ll know!”Lynn was anxious beyond belief. She stared intently at Philip, who was walking with Chloe. The two of them had actually gone into the inner hall.Seriously, what was up with that good-for-nothing?How did he know Miss Chloe Sommerset?!That was simply terrifying.Was he still the same useless cousin-in-law she had always known?“Sunset Villa? Why is Philip there?”Wynn glanced at the time. Why was Philip there at this time of the night?“Hold on a sec.”Lynn took a video of Philip and Chloe with her phone. It just so happened that Chloe was hugging Philip’s arm like a girl in love, her head on his shoulder and a look of happiness on her face.Of course, Lynn did not record the moment Philip shoved Chloe away. She
Smack!Philip slapped Chloe’s hand aside and said icily, “Don’t try my patience!”With that, Philip turned to leave.However, Chloe scoffed at his back, saying, “Do you know why I invited you here tonight?”“What do you mean?”Philip’s gaze turned cold. He spun around and glared at Chloe.Just then, Philip’s phone rang. It was a call from that man.“Spill it!”Philip barked harshly, his body tense and his heart pounding.That call could only mean one thing. Something must have happened to Wynn and Mila.“Young Master, the Young Madam and Miss Mila are safe. We just handled one wave of attackers.”The voice on the other end was that of a cold-blooded man. “They seem to be some local hooligans. They were at the hospital entrance, trying to kidnap the Young Madam.”“Understood.”Philip hung up and stared at Chloe, asking in a low and heavy voice, “Did you send them?”Chloe knew that her plan had failed. Well, she had only wanted to teach Wynn a lesson.She raised her chin a
Philip sighed and said, “Soon. I don’t want to make a move before going back home.”The man in the shadows said no more before leaving.The next day, Philip returned to the villa and saw that Martha had already taken over more than half of it.She had moved all the things from their old residence over, and she even told Philip with considerable pride, “What do you think? I did a good job decorating the place, didn’t I?”Philip glanced around for a while and then went upstairs for a look too. He soon realized that she had somehow turned the villa into what looked like a residential shack.She had even taken over the master bedroom he shared with Wynn.In fact, she even moved their wedding photo to the smaller bedroom downstairs.Martha saw how stormy his expression was when he came downstairs from the master bedroom. She immediately knew what she had done wrong, so she snuck a glance at Charles next to her.Charles ignored her and earned a glare from her.“Move all your things
Martha took a moment to process that and then instantly blew up. “What do you mean by that, Philip? Your uncle is inviting you to dinner, but you can’t be bothered? Do you think I want to invite you? If you want to say hi, come over yourself!”Martha then hung up in a huff.That Philip was getting more unreasonable by the day.Philip was a little taken aback too, but it seemed like he had no choice. He had to attend that night, after all.He gave Wynn a call, telling her he was going to pick her up from work that night.It just so happened that George had just bought him a car recently. It was nothing too fancy, just a BMW 5 Series. That would do for his purposes.That night, Philip drove his brand-new BMW and waited for Wynn outside her office building.When she saw the new car, Wynn froze for a long while too. She was both pleasantly surprised and confused. “Where did you get the money to buy this car?”Philip leaned on the car door, wearing shades. He looked quite dashing li
Wynn paused and looked at Philip suspiciously. She was very confused.Uncle Mont and his family had already insured them to such an extent, so why was Philip saying they would stay?Martha was enraged too. She had already stood up and prepared to leave, but she froze when Philip said that.Now she could not go or stay.Well, that was awkward.“What are you doing, Philip? Who told you to babble? Hurry up and apologize to your aunt and uncle?”Martha was left with nothing better to do, so she took her temper out on Philip as usual.The Renners were doing very well for themselves in Golden City. They were the richest and most powerful out of all their distant relatives.As a result, they took every chance they could get to insult the Johnstons.As the years passed, Martha grew gradually more intimidated by the Renners. These days, she was relatively tamer the moment she saw them. Although Charles used to be a section head, that was still nothing compared to what Mont Renner had