The hall had mostly recovered from the earlier scandal, at least on the surface.
But beneath the clinking glasses, soft orchestra music, and polite laughter,
the entire ballroom was buzzing like a shaken hive.
Everyone had already heard what happened.
The slap.
The confrontation.
The revelation of who Jenny Alvarez truly was.
And the Rosaventi’s? They were standing in the center of it all, shaken to the core.
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Helena couldn’t breathe.
Kanina lang, she was the untouchable matriarch. The feared, respected Rosaventi queen. But now?
She was the woman slapped byJenny’s mother. While she’ll be known as the woman who humiliated an heiress.
The woman who destroyed her own son’s happiness.
Her hands shook uncontrollably as she whispered to Ariana.
“Hindi… hindi puwedeng totoo ‘to.
