Chapter 97 - 97: The Ball VIII (1/2)

Chapter 97 - 97: The Ball VIII

As he went back inside, he saw a dance card lying on the floor Curious, he picked it up Who could have come here and dropped her dance card? He wondered Hopefully, just so him and was so surprised that she ran away She did not even bother to pick her card

Anyway, as he was curious, he opened it The first thing he saas Leonard's na rapidly Who else could own this card? He saw that at the bottom, the last two dances were filled with his na

He felt his hand shaking Did she see? Obviously, she did If he knew that she was there, he would have pushed E hurt be damned However, he had no tiet to her and explain As he moved to walk down the stairs, he heard the last note of a particular song signifying its end

Then, the introductory portion of the Second Waltz started playing Where was she?

He looked around until he finally saw her dancing in the ar with hi Geoffrey her coquettish s closely to hi with her eyes He knew that look because she has used that on him over a hundred tier in her He wanted to plead with his eyes, but she turned away frohts were di was pulled to the side to reveal the glass doht sky Everyone turned to look up, but Charlton continued looking at her He knew that she knew that he was staring, but she chose to ignore hi as if in slowup when Geoffrey moved his eyes down to meet hers He smiled at her and she smiled back Then, she inched closer until her face was directly in front of his

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Serena could not believe ears, what more her eyes She heard Charlton say that Eht of her as pretty Then she saw E to push her away What else could she say to defend him? That was conclusive evidence of his unfaithfulness

All this time, she has been torn on what to do about Geoffrey and how to escape her engage on how to live her future with Charlton She was even willing to throw everything away for hi the female lead, it turned out to be her lover instead

The first drop of tear fell as her nose turned sour She quickly wiped it away How dare he? How dare he do this to her?

She decided not to march in on the two as that was not her style If Charlton wanted to play with her, then she can also play along So, she purposely removed her dance card that was tied to her dress and let it drop on the floor Let hiive hiht have thought things through and see things froled by Leonard's words since Geoffrey asked her to the ball, then add Geoffrey's words earlier She also consuirl on a mission

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