Chapter 219

It was Aria, the very woman she had clashed with that morning at the property management office.

Clad in a black dress with a daring slit and her bold red lips, Aria was a head-turner at the banquet, her notorious 'son' conspicuously absent.

'It's a small world after all,' Madeline thought wryly.

Trevon gave her a quizzical look. "Something wrong?"

Madeline bit her lip.

Daniel had filled her in on the way over about the stakes of the dinner party.

It was a pivotal gathering for the Gibson Group, shaping the company's commercial strategies for decades to come. The banquet was a gathering of esteemed partners, crucial to the Gibson Group's future collaborations.

Whether the partnerships would pan out seemed to hinge on the dinner's proceedings.

Madeline was not sure where Aria fit into all that, but she did not want to sidetrack Trevon's business, so she quietly filled him in on the morning's altercation.

Learning that the culprit behind the dangerous littering was Aria's son ma