Betrayal on a moonlit night

Chapter Two

It was the birthday of the eldest daughter of Frank Mitchell, chairman of the Longsun Group. In the world of werewolves, the Mitchell family was known for its strong bloodline and influence. The Michel family had two daughters, the outstanding eldest daughter Grace, and the bratty and willful youngest daughter Maria, who were the jewels of the werewolf pack.

Michelle's family is the most favored is the eldest daughter Grace, every year the birthday of the big organization. Thirty-year-old birthday banquet, tossed with the eighteen-year-old bar mitzvah as grand. There are a lot of people, mostly business people with "money", "power", "interests" labeled on their heads, and most of them are young and single. This is a reflection of the fact that the strongest is the most honored in the werewolf society.

Grace high education and high value family good, their own conditions in the ceiling level, but all kinds of halo plus body Michelle parent princess this year has thirty, so far single. She is not anxious, the Franks are anxious. These two years of birthday banquets, are trying to find ways to gather all kinds of door-to-door new singles, rather than birthday banquets, rather than matchmaking banquets, which is a common practice in the werewolf packs in order to consolidate the alliance and the bloodline.

Maria hadn't wanted to make a scene tonight. Didn't have the heart to make a scene, having been stabbed a few times in the car by Daniel's relentlessness, it hurt too much to want to get into trouble, just wanting to eat and drink and fill the bloody hole in her heart with food. And the take was short, she'd taken Lucy's money and it would be unseemly to make a scene. Seven figures, she had to give some face tonight anyhow.

As it turned out, she didn't make trouble, but it came to her. Daniel was surrounded by a group of people toasting, Maria was dragged away by Lucy as a tool, in front of the crowd, and Grace acted a sisterly love play. After the play, she glanced at Daniel, who was having a good conversation with someone, and knowing that he would still be a while, she turned around and went to the second floor, ready to go back to her room to lie down for a while to sober up.

She had just had several drinks and was a little tipsy. Turning into the restroom just as someone ran out of it. Maria was just about to dodge, when her shoulder was hit hard by someone, and she stumbled backward two steps and held onto the wall before she could stand still. Splat - the white square handbag full of diamonds fell to the ground, the zipper was open, and the things inside were scattered all over the place.

Maria rubbed her shoulder and lowered her eyes, her gaze falling on the crystal clear emerald earrings at her feet. At first glance, she thought the earrings were familiar, and was about to bend down to pick them up when a hand took them away first. Maria looked up and froze. "Louisa?"

Suddenly seeing her love interest, Maria's first thought was of Daniel, Daniel had brought her here? The thought just rose and then she dismissed it. Impossible, Daniel had protected Louisa so well that outsiders didn't know about their relationship, there was no way he would have brought Louisa here for an occasion like this. Because here she was. Nowadays she was a vicious snake woman in Daniel's eyes, Daniel was afraid that she would bully Louisa, afraid that Louisa would be aggrieved, and would not bring her here.

Louisa had stuffed everything on the floor into her bag in the time between her freezing, stood up with the bag, and put the earrings she held tightly in her palm in there as well, before returning her words. "Grace invited me." It was only then that Maria remembered that Grace and Louisa were college alumni, and the two were on good terms, and it seemed, well, reasonable to invite Louisa over for Grace's birthday.

"You ......" "I still have things to do, so I'll leave first." Maria had only just opened her mouth, Louisa had already taken her bag and ran outside, her footsteps were hurried, as if she really had something urgent. Maria looked at her back, didn't chase after her, she was looking for Louisa to have a good chat, but not today.

From the restroom, Maria went back to her room to play two games, the third game just opened when someone knocked on the door. Tonight's hand is not good, in front of two consecutive losses, mood is depressed, stepping on slippers huffed to open the door. The one who came was the nanny Ella. Seeing the face of the little princess is not depressed, Ella did not dare to linger, and finished her sentence in one breath.

"Missy's earrings are missing, madam asked me to come up and ask you, have you seen them?" Earrings? Maria slowly narrowed her eyes and suddenly asked, "The emerald earrings?" Ella was busy nodding her head, "Yes, it's emerald, it's a birthday gift from the madam to the eldest young lady. It says that it was left behind by the old lady, it's so expensive that the eldest miss didn't even bother to wear it tonight."

The old lady left it behind. Maria finally realized why the earring that landed at her feet gave her a sense of familiarity. It had been left by Grandma, an earring and a bracelet, passed down from the Michelle family's ancestry and called an antique. Grandma instructed Lucy on her deathbed, "The bracelet you pass on to your daughter-in-law, and keep the earring for Maria."

Lucy said that she would give them to her to wear on her wedding day. Now, Lucy gives the earrings to Grace. When Maria followed the nanny downstairs, Grace was grieving over the loss of her earrings, and Lucy took her by the shoulders and whispered soothingly, and when she looked up and saw Maria, she busied herself by asking, "Where are the earrings?" A slightly questioning voice, as if assuming Maria had taken the earring.

Maria glanced absently at Louisa next to Grace, met her sheepish gaze, hooked her lips with little expression, and turned her head to confirm with Lucy first. "The one Grandma left behind?" Seeing Lucy nod, Maria lifted her chin toward Louisa. "Half an hour ago, you bumped into me in the restroom ...... Did you take it out yourself, or did I help you?"

Louisa's face changed and she exclaimed, "Miss Maria, what do you mean by that? Do you mean I stole Grace's earrings?" The people around were busy befriending and climbing, and very few people paid attention to the movement over here, but this sudden voice of Louisa, sharp and agitated, quickly attracted a lot of stares.

Daniel, who was surrounded by people in the center, also heard it. As he followed the watching group over, Louisa was doing her best to incriminate herself, unzipping her bag and turning it over, its contents falling to the floor. There were no earrings on the floor.

"Miss Maria, I know I'm lowly and not as honorable as you, but I have a backbone of my own, and I wouldn't covet anything that wasn't mine, let alone steal it." Louisa is sweet-looking, thin and petite, the mauve evening gown adorned with pearls has conservative curves and sets off a few moments of girl-next-door elegance.

At the moment her eyes were red, her pale face raised slightly upward, her spine straight, the humiliation and vulnerability in the corners of her eyes a silent indictment of Maria. Maria was a strong-faced beauty, with delicate and voluptuous features and a tall figure, her gown tonight was chosen by Lucy and changed only when she came to Michelle's house, a sister model to Grace.

It happens to also be a purple color, different from Louisa's conservative and bland, she is a highly designed smoky grey purple dress, strapless and waisted, with concave and convex curves, siren-like, sexy and flirtatious. A delicate and fragile girl next door, a cold and noble rich lady. Looking at this scene, how do you look at it, it looks like Maria is bullying Louisa.

Especially the disdainful mockery on Maria's face, and the arrogance of her superiority, made Louisa even more pathetic. In the stalemate between the two, Louisa pursed her lips again and spoke, "Do you want to search me?" It was humiliating, but Grace had said that it was the only way to make Maria and Daniel completely break up.

So Louisa was willing to put up a fight. With trembling fingertips, she tugged her dress down and her left shoulder was exposed, revealing a large expanse of white, smooth skin. That's when Daniel came rushing out. He took off his suit jacket and draped it over Louisa, taking her hand and yanking it back, completely shielding her, his handsome face colored with anger, his stern gaze sweeping over Maria.

"Maria, don't go too far!" Maria stared intently at the hand he was holding Louisa with, her brows furrowed in a tight, speechless frown. "I went overboard? What did I do? I just said the truth and she got all excited and went through her bag and undressed herself."

Maria pointed to the bag on the floor, "She did have an earring in her bag when I saw it, I'm not lying, there's surveillance in the house." She was hit by Louisa in the bathroom doorway, the angle of the surveillance couldn't see all of it, but it could see a little bit. Maria let someone go to adjust the surveillance, Grace came forward at this time, said that the home surveillance was broken yesterday, and had not yet found someone to come over to fix it.

Such a coincidence? Maria suddenly turned her head to look at her, her sharp gaze carrying scrutiny. Grace looked like she didn't see her questioning, smiling gently and generously. "Maria, those earrings were a birthday gift from mom. I know you've always liked them, since I was little, I've always let you have whatever you like, take the earrings if you like them, don't wrong an innocent person."

Lucy had already begun to suspect Louisa a while ago, but now that she heard Grace's words, and remembered where the earrings came from, she felt again that it was more likely that Maria had taken them. "Maria, that earring matches your sister, I will buy you another one, stop fooling around, return the earring to your sister and apologize to Louisa."

Maria's gaze skimmed over the crowd and looked straight at Louisa behind Daniel, looking at her tearful appearance, she sneered. As expected, the child who can cry gets candy. On the contrary, she hadn't been a crybaby since she was a child.

As the accusations in her ears continued and the murmurs rose, Maria beckoned, asked for a glass of champagne from the waiter, and slammed it hard in Grace's direction. Don't you dare count her out. Fine, don't have a birthday.