"How could I? It must have been my team''s mistake," Odie said, casting a quick look at Sandy before deliberately taking Vanessa''s hand. "Vanessa and Ms. Sandy are good friends. There''s no way we wouldn'' invite Ms. Sandy to witness our engagement, right, Vanessa?"


    Vanessa''s face went pale at his words. She hadn''t expected Odie to dump the problem on her!Belonging to N?velDrama.Org.


    Sophie, observing the unfolding drama, took a sip of the champagne Odie had handed her earlier. What a shameless move.


    "..."


    Before Vanessa could get a word out, Odie acted surprised. "What? You forgot to send Ms. Sandy an invitation?"


    Vanessa''s face grew paler. She and Sandy were close friends. How could she invite the Pord family to her engagement with Sandy''s ex-fiancé?


    Odie had cleverly shifted the me onto her. In such a situation, Vanessa was speechless.


    Watching Odie wash his hands of the matter, Angelo coldly interjected, "Regardless, Sandy is my sister. Mr. Odie, you broke off your engagement with my sister just a few days ago and now you''re getting engaged to someone else. Do you think you can treat the Pord family like a joke?"


    Sophie stared at Angelo for a moment. This tone was much more fitting. She remembered seeing Angelo on Emerging Newsst time. He hadn''t seemed like this at all.


    The atmosphere grew tense after Angelo''s remark.


    Sandy confronted Vanessa angrily, "I''ve been calling you these past few days without an answer, and you weren''t home when I visited! Were you with him all this time?" "Sandy..."


    Vanessa tried to exin, but Sandy was too furious. "Don''t bother exining! So, when I had you stay at the Minton Estate, the two of you were often seening and going together! I treated you as a good friend! And you betrayed me for a man!"


    As Sandy spoke, her anger grew. She wanted to smash the cake she was holding into Vanessa''s face but ultimately softened, dropping it at Vanessa''s feet instead.


    It was just a man, after all. If Vanessa had said she liked Odie, she would have willingly stepped aside! But Vanessa shouldn''t have kept it a secret and lied to her! "See? My sister is very angry, and the consequences are serious."


    After saying this, Angelo heard a burst of static from the earpiece he was wearing Quickly gathering his thoughts, he switched topics, "Your Minton family has been running wild abroadtely, starting new ventures, trafficking drugs, and openly soliciting prostitution at the Dragonvein Hotel. Do you really think the Pord family has no one to


    handle this?"


    As soon as Angelo finished, arge group of people burst through the door, and Odie''s men, previously stationed abroad by him, were bound andid on the ground by the Pord family.


    "Mr. Odie, do you recognize them?"


    Angelo stepped forward, lifting the


    face of one of the Mintons'' men. "Over the years, Mr. Odie, you''ve spent quite some effort abroad. It took me quite some time to dig these people out, and now, I''m returning them all to you


    Odie''s face darkened. He had been cautious not to alert anyone when cing his men abroad, spacing out their deployments. He hadn''t expected the Pord family to unearth all his men in just a few days!


    Kiran''s tactics were indeed as clever as the rumors said.