At 7 o'clock in the evening, Valeria rushed to the rotating restaurant in B City. She went through the door of the box and saw Ashley and Julie sitting there with Ronald. Valeria instantly turned dark.
Julie had to maintain her good stepmother appearance in front of Ronald. She stood up with a smile and said, "Good to see you, Valeria. Come here and have a seat!"
Ashley followed Julie to her feet and enthusiastically held Valeria's hand, as if she and Valeria had never had a problem.
Seeing Ashley feigning innocence, Valeria felt disgusted. She avoided Ashley's touch and looked at Ronald, "What do you want, my dear father?"
"Come in and sit down, Valeria. I've order the dishes you like. We talked over dinner." Ronald also forced a smile.
Valeria knew Ronald had bad intentions behind his smile. It was a challenge for Valeria to cover up her disgust while dining with the mistress and her daughter.
Valeria wanted to turn around and leave, but when she thought about Bob's words, she resisted the idea.
She would like to figure out what Ronald was up to when he brought the mistress and her daughter to meet her.
After watching Valeria sit down, Julie offered to pour Valeria a cup of tea with a smirk and cautious expression.
"Valeria, I'm sorry for what happened before. It's our fault that you have such a cold relationship with your father. Ashley and I want to apologize."
Valeria saw it through that Julie was making amends hypocritically, so she did not take over the tea cup and looked at Julie coldly.
"You must be kidding, Ms. Evans. You said at the dinner party that you had nothing to do with my father. How could my father and I be at loggerhead over an outsider?"
After being relentlessly rebutted by Valeria, Jolie managed to keep a smile on her face despite the hatred in her heart.
"Valeria, I'm sorry to make you uncomfortable. It's all my fault. You can do whatever you want to me, but your father is innocent."
Valeria had to admit that Julie was really good at hoaxing others. She knew when to be vulnerable and naive, and she took the blame for it all, which was sure to win Ronald over.
Valeria pursed her lips and smiled, "Sure. My dad is innocent. You shamelessly seduced my dad, didn't you?"
It was hard for Julie to answer this question. Because if she didn't admit that she seduced Ronald, that meant she admitted that Ronald seduced her. Julie now knew that Valeria was more articulate than she thought.
Valeria looked at Julie with disdain, "Everyone knows what you're up to. You deliberately seduced my father into giving birth to an illegitimate daughter, so that one day you could become mistress of the house with the help of your illegitimate daughter, right?"
Julie's face turned white because of Valeria's unmasking her, "No, no. Valeria, it's not what you think. I met your father before your mother and I never meant to disturb your father's life at that time..."
"Then you should never show up in front of my father if you didn't want to disturb him. So why did you show up? Don't pretend to be innocent. You really think we are fools?"
Valeria's words made Ronald's face change. He was not a fool. Julie kept saying that she didn't want to disturb him. Since so, why did she let Ashley get close to Valeria?
Before Valeria knowing Ashley's identity, they were on very good terms with each other, weren't they?
Valeria knew that Ronald had believed what she said, so she smiled sarcastically.
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