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The hall went quiet after the young woman walked in.
Erica knitted her brows, then she left the hands of the man and walked over to the side of Bethany, who looked like she was in distress.
Everyone thought that the young woman came to look for Miss Danica Medina.
so, the crowd parted to let her through. Danica was so excited, even though, she didn't know who the other woman was, she just felt that she might be an important person, so the sudden desire to be associated with her– She wanted to be affiliated with people of great caliber.
However, Erica stopped in front of Bethany and said. “Miss Quest, what's going on here?”.
After asking the question, she didn't bother to wait for answers before she turned her gaze toward Mrs. Downey as she asked rhetorically.“ Is this how you judge a person? I wasn't informed that this is how you welcome your guests if I had known I wouldn't have bothered with the invitations, Ms. Downey”.
When the guests heard her words, they were startled as they couldn't understand why she would go about defending a wretched woman like that.
Shocked, Marianne couldn't place a finger on why the woman was mad at her for accusing a thief and calling a thief, a thief.“ Do you know her, Miss?”.
The guests also gasped when they saw her talking to the woman.
How did she get to know this thief?.
With a smile on her face, Erica slowly turned to face Mrs. Downey, “How does that even matter now? I just learned that you passed judgments without evidence. Is this your good way, Mrs. Downey?”.
Her tone was filled with sarcasm, and her face was crushed in disgust as she glared at everyone one of them.
Seeing that Erica was able to get them all to shove their words down their throats, Bethany quickly spoke up, which cause others to raise their eyes.
“Miss Burnett, you were looking for me? I just went to the bathroom for a quick change. what's the matter? ”.
Bethany asked firmly while looking at the woman in front of her.
When others heard that, she had caused her by her name as if she was closer to the elegant lady, the people held their hearts in their hands, as they didn't know who she was in the first place.
“Miss Burnett, who is this woman?”
“Why does her name sounds so familiar?”
“ is she an important guest, and why would she get herself entangled with a thief?
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