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Chapter 99
Penelope did not even spare Sebastian’s friend a proper glance.His interruption, bold though he had intended it to sound, dissolved in the air almost the moment it left his mouth, because Penelope carried the kind of presence that made certain people feel insignificant without her needing to humiliate them directly, and so instead of acknowledging his desperate attempt to insert himself into the conversation, she let her attention remain exactly where she wanted it, on Otis, as though no one else in the room had truly earned the right to matter in that instant.Then, with that same composed elegance that had already unsettled everyone once before, she stepped forward just slightly and spoke again, her tone still smooth, still feminine, but this time carrying a degree of seriousness that transformed the entire atmosphere around her."Mr. Otis," she said, and there was now a note of respect in the way she addressed him that nobody failed to hear, "can you do me a favor?"The room becam
Chapter 98
Penelope did not even spare Sebastian’s friend a proper glance.His interruption, bold though he had intended it to sound, dissolved in the air almost the moment it left his mouth, because Penelope carried the kind of presence that made certain people feel insignificant without her needing to humiliate them directly, and so instead of acknowledging his desperate attempt to insert himself into the conversation, she let her attention remain exactly where she wanted it, on Otis, as though no one else in the room had truly earned the right to matter in that instant.Then, with that same composed elegance that had already unsettled everyone once before, she stepped forward just slightly and spoke again, her tone still smooth, still feminine, but this time carrying a degree of seriousness that transformed the entire atmosphere around her."Mr. Otis," she said, and there was now a note of respect in the way she addressed him that nobody failed to hear, "can you do me a favor?"The room becam
Chapter 97
Penelope did not even spare Sebastian’s friend a proper glance.His interruption, bold though he had intended it to sound, dissolved in the air almost the moment it left his mouth, because Penelope carried the kind of presence that made certain people feel insignificant without her needing to humiliate them directly, and so instead of acknowledging his desperate attempt to insert himself into the conversation, she let her attention remain exactly where she wanted it, on Otis, as though no one else in the room had truly earned the right to matter in that instant.Then, with that same composed elegance that had already unsettled everyone once before, she stepped forward just slightly and spoke again, her tone still smooth, still feminine, but this time carrying a degree of seriousness that transformed the entire atmosphere around her."Mr. Otis," she said, and there was now a note of respect in the way she addressed him that nobody failed to hear, "can you do me a favor?"The room becam
Chapter 96
Immediately, that was when Penelope then responded to Megan, and she did so without flinching, without drawing back, and without offering even the smallest apology for what she had just said, because unlike the others in the room who had been reacting from chaos, Penelope now seemed to be moving from a place of very deliberate control, the kind of control that makes even simple words sound sharper than an insult."Inviting him to dinner, of course," she said, her eyes resting on Megan with a calmness that somehow made the question even more provocative. "Do you have any problem with that? Do you have any problem with me inviting him to dinner?"The room seemed to tighten at once.There was no shouting in Penelope's voice.No mockery.No vulgarity.And yet, in some strange way, that only made the exchange more dangerous, because Megan could now feel that this was no accidental misunderstanding and no casual social gesture lightly offered without awareness. Penelope knew exactly what sh
Chapter 95
while all attention seemed fixed on Otis, while accusations continued to fly toward him from every direction and every mouth in the room seemed either ready to condemn him, laugh at him, or challenge him, there was one person who had remained quiet just long enough to observe what nobody else was really paying attention to, and that person was Penelope.For most of that exchange, it had seemed as though she was not invited into the emotional center of what was happening.It had seemed as though she stood slightly apart from it all, not because she did not understand the gravity of the moment, but because she was the kind of woman who did not rush to speak merely because others were making noise. She had watched Melissa with her outrage, watched Sebastian's friends puff themselves up with collective anger, watched Megan become overwhelmed by the pressure gathering around her, and through all of it Penelope had remained still, composed, and unreadable in the way only very self-possessed
Chapter 94
At that moment in time, that was when Melissa then shouted toward Otis, and there was no trace of restraint left in her now, no effort to keep her voice measured, no interest in preserving the appearance of polish, because anger had fully taken over and was now speaking for her in the raw, public, cutting way anger always prefers when it feels both threatened and vindicated at the same time."Will you just keep your mouth shut and stop uttering nonsense anymore?" she snapped, her voice carrying sharply through the room. "You are getting really annoying now, getting on my nerves, and this is becoming extremely boring at this moment in time, because I will not stand here and watch you continue to tell lies upon lies upon lies upon lies, feeding yourself with more lies until your stomach actually bursts, and you still won't even agree that you are lying. If it wasn't for my father's phone call, everybody here would have believed you. You would have been singing your own praises by now, t
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