Chapter 120: News…
As the last words left their mouths, the sharp click of high heels echoed through the bathroom.
Click, click, click. The sound grew louder as Lilia walked toward the door. The ladies froze, eyes widening in horror, their bodies trembling ever so slightly. They knew exactly who had passed. Fear clawed at their skin.
"W...wasn’t that—Mr. Zethan’s...wife?"
They were as good as dead. If Lilia chose to tell Zethan about this conversation, their husbands would go bankrupt. They had come here hoping to make connections, but now, with Zethan’s power, they realized they had made a grave mistake.
Not to mention, the reason they were here was actually to befriend Lilia—to gain an advantage—but it seemed they had ruined the plan before it even began.
In fact, for some of them, that was the main plan given to them by their husbands.
At this point, they resembled those poor high school girls trying to fit in with the badass rich girls’ gang but ended up getting expelled.
They were finished.
He could ruin them with a snap of his fingers—drive them to such ruin that even a simple job at a coffee shop would be out of reach.
Just as she reached the door, Lilia turned toward them, her lips curling into a smile. "Good morning, ladies. Didn’t see you there," she said sweetly. "I surely won’t forget your faces. It’ll be so nice to tell my husband more about you... bye, ladies." She winked slowly, her head tilting before blowing a kiss toward them.
With a final, lingering glance, she turned and exited. The door clicked shut behind her.
