I could hear a suppressed excitement came from across the line. "It counts. It's always counted. As long as it's you, it'll count for a lifetime."
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The people in the hall looked at each other and as wealthy nobles, they all felt embarrassed.
Some even began to speak up for me. "This is the tenth wedding already. Mr. Lenart is being too reckless. How can he keep abandoning Miss Herrera for just a junior assistant?"
"That's right. Miss Herrera treated him so well. She even gave him a kidney and yet her father kicked her out because of it."
They looked at me sympathetically as they spoke. Even outsiders knew Hudson had taken his joke too far.
Hudson's mother came running over, grabbed my arm and said urgently, "Becca, hurry, explain to everyone. Just say something urgent came up at the company and he had to handle it. Invite the guests for the meal first."
I looked indifferently at my mother-in-law, who kept saying she treated me like her own daughter. I felt suffocated.
"Aunt Sandy, do you think everyone else is stupid? I've already said this nine times. Do I really need to say it a tenth?"