Billy glanced at Sherman and Kingsley out of the corners of his eye. The two were sitting in the corner. He narrowed his eyes and his gaze darkened. He hadn't seen her in two months. She looked like a completely different person.
Natalie saw his eyes move slightly. She whispered to him, "It was him, the man next to Sherman. I saw him at the class reunion..."
"Really?" Billy's voice was faint. It looked like he was not interested in it. But then he glanced at them indifferently out of the corners of his eyes.
"It was him who picked Sherman up that evening.
They all said Sherman was his mistress. She didn't deny it..." Natalie said deliberately.
Mistress?
Billy's eyes twitched slightly. His hand holding the glass tightened a bit more.
"I heard from our friends earlier that Sherman started working as a cleaner and that maybe she couldn't stand the hardships, so she found a man to depend on"
Natalie didn't know that when they got divorced, Billy gave Sherman 3% of the company's shares.
When Billy heard this, he interpreted it another way. H e thought Sherman lived a lavish life and wasted all the money so that she had to work as a cleaner.
It had only been two months. The change in her made him feel strange. Eventually, she too was overwhelmed by money and this materialistic society. She became superficial.
Natalie was deliberately tarnishing Sherman's reputation. Once a person's reputation got stained, it was hard to clean it up.
In the corner, it was quiet and solitude. Sherman looked at Kingsley, "Is it okay for us to sit here?"
Kingsley's thin lips moved slightly and reassured her with a low voice. At that moment, three middle-aged men in suits walked over.
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