Lauren's pupils shrank.
The biggest humiliation of her life was when she involved herself with Herman's marriage and became the third party persecuted by everyone. Whenever people talked about her these days, they always called her the homewrecker who had successfully become the lawful wife.
Yet Nora had brought it up in public in front of everyone. It was simply infuriating.
There was anger all over Lauren's face. She demanded, "What's the meaning of this, Ms. Smith?"
"You don't dare to make the bet with me?"
Nora raised her brows.
Pushed into a corner, the angry and anxious Lauren could only say, "Fine."
She clenched her fists tightly.
In order to return to the Hunt Manor, as well as to return to the pinnacle of status in New York, she was really holding nothing back. When she thought about it carefully, though, nothing could go wrong with that pot of flowers anyway. Nora was at a complete disadvantage when she made the bet with her.
To be honest, the moment Nora said that the ingredient was too strong, Lauren had already felt a little guilty. She'd actually had some takeaways from her time studying medicine abroad over the years.
However, she strongly believed that even if something were to really go wrong, it would only happen at a later stage.
It was impossible for that to happen within an hour.
She was sure to win the bet.
When she thought about it this way, Lauren didn't feel so unhappy anymore—because the bet was clearly to Nora's disadvantage.
After the two parties made the bet, Lauren summoned some people and instructed, "Keep a close watch on this pot of Ghost Orchids. If anything goes wrong, you must notify me immediately!"
No matter how rare the Ghost Orchids were, they were nothing more than a pot of flowers for Lauren. What she cared about was not the flowers but winning the bet.
She spoke very loudly, everyone heard her. Lauren explained with a smile, "We've already made the bet, after all. I'm just afraid someone would deliberately spoil the flowers within the hour because they are sore losers. It would be terrible if people refuse to pay up when that happens."
Iris, however, ignored her. Instead, she pulled Nora to the side, lowered her voice, and asked, "Tell me the truth, are you Orchidiance?"
Nora's lips curled into a smile and she nodded.
Iris:
She stared at Nora with a dazed look on her face. "Orchidiance is the only person capable of curing Matthew's flowers, why didn't I think of that? No, it's because you are too young. I didn't expect Orchidiance to be so young, I always thought that she would be as old
as me, or perhaps even older."
Nora looked at her.
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