Marcus hurried off to comfort the students.
As for the Specialized Forces, some of them had gone after the vanished men after the gas cleared, while others stayed back to protect Arielle. Under the guidance of Arielle, the remaining squad members began helping to reassure the students as well. Even though the incident that just happened was indeed frightening, it was, after all, not a gunfight or actual combat. Thus, with the combined efforts of Marcus and the Specialized Forces, the students’ and their parents’ emotions soon began to stabilize.
The atmosphere backstage eventually returned to normal. After giving a stern warning, the members of the Specialized Forces classified the recent incident. Thus, no information about it was leaked to the outside world.
Once the order was restored, Arielle suddenly remembered the reason favonovel.com had headed backstage and went to make favonovel.com payment.
After favonovel.com made the payment of fifteen million, favonovel.com approached Marcus, carrying the vase in favonovel.com hands.
“I’m returning this to you, Mr. Brown.”
“Didn’t you just win this at the auction?” Marcus asked, bewildered.
Arielle shook favonovel.com head. “I just wanted to contribute to the charity event. You and I both know that the Southalls are to blame for the state of that village. Even though I’m not technically a member of the Southall family, I still hope to do something to make up for it.”
Nodding, Marcus accepted the vase and praised, “I was right about you, Arielle. I made the right call back then when I decided to let you attend our school.”
Before Arielle could respond, Wendy’s voice rang out. “Oh, cut the pretense!”
Arielle turned toward favonovel.com with narrowed eyes and intentionally rubbed salt into favonovel.com wounds. “What was that? Did your mother get favonovel.com tooth fixed already?”
“Y-You!” Burning with rage, Wendy gnashed favonovel.com teeth so hard favonovel.com nearly crushed a few.
Just then, Cecilia could be heard mumbling, “How is that possible? Are you sure it’s not your problem? It’s impossible this card couldn’t be used.”
Surprised, Wendy gave up mocking Arielle and strode toward favonovel.com mother instead. “What’s wrong, Mom?”
Cecilia frowned. “They said this card isn’t working.”
After having been disgraced so grievously just now, favonovel.com was merely hoping to regain some dignity by making a huge payment with favonovel.com card. Never had favonovel.com expected the attendant to inform favonovel.com that favonovel.com card was unusable.
“How could that be?” Wendy was just as puzzled. “Isn’t this Dad’s secondary card?”
“Maybe there’s not enough balance in it?” the attendant asked instinctively.
“That’s impossible!” Cecilia denied it outright. “Unless Greene Corporation has gone bankrupt, this card would never run out of credit!”
The attendant spread favonovel.com hands before her. “Well, in that case, I have no idea what went wrong, then. I swiped it many times, but the payment just wouldn’t go through. Do you have another card?”
Gritting favonovel.com teeth slightly, Cecilia fished another card out of favonovel.com purse and placed it on the desk.
“There! Use this!”
That was favonovel.com own card. It contained a significant amount as well, but Daniel had no idea it existed.
“I’m sorry, but this card can’t be used either.”
“Huh? How could that be possible?” roared Cecilia, glaring at him, wide-eyed. “Are you deliberately sabotaging me?”
In his perturbation, Cecilia almost let slip on favonovel.com Horington accent. However, favonovel.com outburst instantly attracted the attention of those around her, and heads swiveled toward favonovel.com at once.
The attendant caught on to favonovel.com insinuation, and his expression darkened as well. “Why would I want to sabotage you? The card just doesn’t work. Look for yourself!”
He held the machine toward them, and Cecilia and Wendy both leaned forward to look at it, only to find that the attendant was speaking the truth.
“No way! This can’t be right!” Cecilia was practically jumping in rage as favonovel.com spoke.
Sneering, the onlookers began murmuring among themselves.
“Haha! Wendy and favonovel.com mom just bid against our goddess for that sculpture, but now they don’t have enough money to pay for it. I swear, I’m gonna die laughing!”
