'**** him?' Trying to suppress the urge to puke, Sheffield replied in a soft voice, "Okay, bye!"
If he didn't hang up on Joshua now, he'd probably end up vomiting all over the place.
Sheffield turned around and pretended that he just saw Evelyn. He said in a surprised tone, "Miss Huo!"
Restraining from showing any emotion, Evelyn took two glasses of wine from Nadia and handed one to him. "Mr. Tang, since you have come all the way here in person, I should propose a toast to you."
Nadia left quietly, leaving the two of them alone.
Looking at the wine glass in her hand, Sheffield said, "I'm sorry, Miss Huo. I've not been in good health lately. I don't drink anymore."
"Is your health really bad or are you embarrassing me on purpose?" she asked.
Sheffield glanced at the employees who were peeking at them from a small distance. "Fine. I won't embarrass you in front of the staff." He extended his hand to her for the glass.
As Evelyn handed him the wine, she came closer to him than he had expected, and quickly grabbed the phone from his hand. She moved a few steps away from him while he was still confused.
Sheffield gaped.
The man was stunned, but then, he smiled helplessly. "People are looking and your behavior is very misleading."
Ignoring him, she tried to unlock the phone. It had a password lock.
"Wait!" Sheffield said in guilty haste.
She cast a cold glance at him.
"Miss Huo, I hope you are aware that what you are doing is an invasion of my privacy. If you go through my private stuff, I will be forced to call my lawyer and— Hey!" He watched as she unlocked his phone with ease.
Only if there weren't so many people watching them... He could have easily grabbed the phone back from her. But, he was helpless in their current situation.
He had changed his phone, but his password was still the same as before. After Evelyn entered the old password, the phone was unlocked.
She found his call records. The last person he had called was Joshua.
'So, it was Joshua on the phone with him. Not some woman!'
Giving the phone back to him, Evelyn sneered, "Mr. Tang, it's fine if you don't like me anymore. But did you only find a man to make me feel bad? I mean, if you really liked Joshua, that would be completely fine. But you were only trying to make me feel bad."
Sheffield was dumbfounded; he couldn't think of anything smart to say.
He didn't want to make her feel bad. He just wanted to piss her off and make her jealous.
Evelyn raised her glass and continued, "Mr. Tang, it's been an honor having you here with us. I'd like to propose a toast to you on behalf of ZL Group." Saying that, she drained her glass of wine.
Then, without another word, she turned around and left, leaving Sheffield behind.
Although they hadn't seen each other in two years, Evelyn knew Sheffield well. He had chosen to leave when Tracy had suggested that Evelyn propose a toast to him. At first, she had really thought that he was calling another woman. She had figured that he was pretending when she heard Joshua's roar from the other end of the line, two meters away.
After she left, Sheffield emptied the wine in his glass.
He put the glass aside and left the restaurant without even saying goodbye to Gillian.
In the car, holding her dazed head, Evelyn told Felix, "Ask Nadia to postpone my next appointment to tomorrow evening. I want to go back to the manor now." She couldn't even keep it together after a few glasses of wine.
"Okay, Miss Huo."
When she arrived at the manor, Debbie was playing with Gwyn.
She was surprised to see Evelyn. "Didn't you say that you would be late tonight?" she asked.
"I had some wine and I'm kinda dizzy. So, I had to put off the dinner appointment." Evelyn walked to Gwyn and held her in her arms.
"Are you okay? How much did you drink?" Debbie looked at her daughter's reddened face with concern.
"Not much. I'm just a light drinker. I will feel better after I get some sleep." She kissed her baby on the cheek and added, "I'll take you to bed, Gwyn."
The little girl put her hands around her mother's neck without saying a word.
"I don't think that's a good idea. Let Gwyn sleep with me tonight," Debbie suggested.
Evelyn agreed, "Okay. I will take a shower after putting her to sleep." She held Gwyn in her arms and walked towards the stairs.
She was not that drunk; she was just in a bad mood. But as she held Gwyn tightly in her arms, she felt much better.
Debbie followed after her. "Call me if you need anything."
"Okay."
When they reached the second floor, Debbie waved at the little girl and coaxed, "Good night, Gwyn."
Gwyn looked at her and waved her hand without saying anything.
Debbie was thrilled by her granddaughter's reaction. She blew her a kiss.
The next afternoon, as soon as Nadia finished her report, she told Evelyn, "I cancelled the dinner last night as per your instruction. Mr. Xie didn't take it well. They had been waiting for you for nearly an hour. His assistant called a while earlier to say that he was disappointed that the appointment was cancelled."
Evelyn knew she was the one to blame. "Book a private booth at Orchid Private Club for dinner tonight. Let them know that the dinner is on me and I'll personally apologize to Mr. Xie for cancelling yesterday's appointment," she said.
"Yes, Miss Huo."
In the evening, Evelyn walked into the lounge and looked through the closet. She didn't find anything she liked.
After a couple of minutes, she selected a light-colored cheongsam embroidered with orchids and put it on. The dress hugged her curves and showed her graceful figure perfectly.
At Orchid Private Club
There were three people in Room 669, waiting for Evelyn. Duran Xie told the man next to him, "Mr. Zhu, we cannot deal with Carlos Huo directly, but we can make things difficult for his daughter."
The two men flashed an evil smile. Maddock Zhu said with a snort, "We have to flatter Carlos all the time to gain his favor. Since he's on a business trip now, we can deal with his daughter. We can make things hard for her and make her pay for what her father has done to us."
"You're right, but don't make it too obvious. Otherwise, we'll have hell to pay if Carlos finds out."
After thinking it over for a while, Maddock Zhu suggested, "She is the host tonight, isn't she? Call the waiter. Let's order before she arrives."
"Yeah! The food here is very expensive. We should call our friends and ask them to have dinner with us too. That way, the dinner would cost her a fortune and we will be doing our friends a favor." Duran Xie took out his phone and started to call his friends.
Maddock Zhu suggested, "We need to call those who are ZL Group's partners, or our plan will be exposed."
"Right!"
When Evelyn arrived at the private booth, there were more people waiting for her than she had expected.
As she walked in, Duran Xie stared at her cheongsam-clad figure. His eyes almost popped out.
Those who knew him for a long time knew how much he liked women in cheongsams.
In the light-colored cheongsam, Evelyn looked more attractive than any women he had seen. Even those young models he had dated couldn't hold a candle to her.