Chapter 181: New friend? (1)
"It is your fault for acting too soon. You should apologise and hope she moves on from it. She doesn’t have any friends to be picky so we are her finest option," Natalie said, watching the couple until they entered a shop. "I think she will make a good friend."
"Do not lie to me. It wasn’t that long ago you told me about Vivienne wanting you to attack her in her stead. Now you want to be friends? Does this have anything to do with why you sent for me to join you here?" Valentina asked.
Valentina considered Natalie a friend, a real friend compared to all the other women but Natalie tended to be secretive.
"I am going to tell you but not here. You only need to trust me. Perhaps I can use you to get close to her and then I can put in a good word for you. I will never leave you behind," Natalie promised.
Valentina was reluctant to do this since it meant getting on Xavier’s bad side. "I do not know. I thought they said this marriage would end by now. Yet, here he is walking around the market with her, unlike most husbands. No wonder she didn’t seem phased by my taunting."
Valentina believed the rumour that Selene had been close to Xavier during the time Gabriel was away. "She had such a man at her side while I failed to get his attention over the years. He wouldn’t take any of my advances."
"That’s where you always messed up. You can’t approach men like Lord Blackthorn. They like what they can’t have or they love the women who seem to not want their attention. What makes your advances special when he could have any woman in town? Still, why her?" Natalie wondered, clueless about how Selene did it.
Natalie hadn’t heard much about Selene since she married the mixed-blood and now her name was said quite often. When was Selene going around the town to be in the same place as Xavier?
"Stay here," Natalie told Valentina. "I will be back as soon as I have a word with her. I will tell you what was said."