Nemesis Game novel Chapter 58

The look that Ruben gave Peyton made her felt both aggrieved and angry. Two extremely complicated emotions intertwined, causing her eyes to redden slightly.

How could Ruben look at her like that for that bitch Helena Powell?

Peyton didn’t bother if Caelan did beat that woman. Even better off if it disfigured that bitch’s face! That would be the only way to relieve the hatred in her heart!

“Ruben,” Peyton walked over and lowered her eyes aggrievedly.

Ruben’s gaze was only moved for a moment. His look expressed sharpness and clarity towards everything, making it unavoidable.

“Caelan is your brother, he represents the Moore family’s every word and deed. What was he even thinking by hitting people in public?”

Caelan was raging inside. He was just helping his sister, how did it become that he was messing around in Ruben’s eyes?

Moreover, he would never forget that Samantha slapped him twice before. That scene was still vivid in his memory.

“Ok.” Peyton said with a hoarse voice and her eyelashes trembled.

She didn’t argue nor did she explain. She just calmly excepted it which made people looked more highly of her.

She pretended to be frail and aggrieved on purpose just so that Ruben would take pity on her.

A woman’s tears were the most powerful weapon.

Samantha had long known what kind of woman Peyton was, so she wasn’t surprised.

Peyton was a goody two shoes, so she had to act more like it.

Even Samantha thought Ruben would take pity on Peyton. After all, they were close.

But he looked at Peyton with a complicated gaze and spat out a cold sentence.

“You acted out of line.”

Ruben then dragged confused Samantha into the banquet hall after leaving that sentence.

Samantha didn’t understand a word he said. But when she lifted her head in a trance, she noticed somber and loneliness shrouding on Ruben’s face.

Those emotions were not supposed to appear on him.

Samantha read misery that she had never seen before from Ruben’s lips.

What was wrong with him?

Peyton turned her head and watched them walked away hand in hand, her fingernails embedded deep in her flesh.

Immense hatred erupted in Peyton’s eyes.

She acted out of line?

How had she acted out of line?

What she simply did was used Nia to get Samantha to attend tonight’s dinner party and let her be humiliated.

How was that being out of line?

Did Ruben know that she did all of this?

But what’s the big deal even if he did, Peyton didn’t feel she was at fault.

Every time she saw Ruben’s gaze pouring on Samantha, every second of it drove her crazy enough to kill!

With a dinner party as grand as tonight’s, Samantha was definitely not worthy enough to attend with her status.

Gabriel wouldn’t be stupid enough to invite her.

Peyton deliberately told Nia about the scandal between Gabriel and Samantha, and with Nia arrogance, she won’t be able to tolerate it.

Nia was the only person who had access to Gabriel’s driver, so it took no time to lure Samantha over.

Nia knew that Gabriel would never acknowledge Samantha’s identity. She just wanted to take advantage of tonight’s banquet to tell everyone the fact that Gabriel’s wife would only be her!

Anyone who dared to hit on Gabriel would have to deal with her first.

That was Peyton’s way of getting back at Samantha.

How could a fool like Nia realized that she was used?

Yet Peyton didn’t expect that the man she loved would speak out to help Samantha.

She couldn’t stand something like that from happening.

Peyton couldn’t wait to shred Samantha Powell into pieces. With one dead, here comes another!

The banquet hall was already crowded with celebrities when Ruben walked in along with Samantha. Gabriel couldn’t walk away as he was pestered by Nia so Samantha could only follow Ruben.

Samantha was Ruben’s female companion tonight.

“If you want Nia to gouge your eyeballs out then you should keep looking at your beloved Gabriel!” Ruben laughed cynically as he sensed that Samantha was looking at someone else.

Samantha’s pupils contracted slightly, “What beloved? Don’t you talk any nonsense.”

Ruben’s gaze was cold while he snickered, “What? So now you’re afraid to die?”

It wasn’t that he didn’t realize the moment they entered the banquet hall, Samantha had her gaze glued on Gabriel.

What’s so good about Gabriel?

But why was Ruben thinking so much? The reason for saving her this time was because he knew that Samantha was innocent and he just pitied her.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Samantha tried to distant herself from Ruben. His scent was too strong, as if it was fine wine, making her heart beat wildly every time she got close.

Ruben held Samantha with one arm, not giving her the chance to leave his side. His jaw rested on top of her hair. The scent of breath that belonged to him was blowing across her cheeks subtly, bringing her nervousness and excitement that she had never felt before.

“You don’t know what I’m saying, but you should’ve known that you’re worthless in Gabriel’s eyes. Between someone like you and Nia, he chose her.” Ruben seemed to see Samantha’s disappointment and kept on poking her pain.

He thought that Samantha’s forbearance and disappointment was because Gabriel didn’t speak up to help her in front of everyone but watched her get thrown out by the people Nia called instead.

But Ruben was wrong.

Samantha was upset because she was around him.

She wanted to resent him, but since returning to City L, her relationship with Ruben seemed to be much more complicated and unpredictable than just mere hatred.

Samantha was fixed in Ruben’s embrace and each heartbeat burned her skin when he spoke.

She pursed her lips, “Then you should too, know that you and Gabriel are not much of a difference in my eyes. You are both businessmen and I am just a plaything, a dog in the palms of your hands.” she said calmly with a hint of raspiness in her voice.

Samantha showed a rare occasion of self-deprecation and sadness between her eyebrows. Ruben was startled for a moment, then with a deep tone he said, “I am not the same as Gabriel.”

“I don’t see it.” Samantha provoked him on purpose and laughed coolly.

Ruben’s narrow eyes were as deep as a cold pool. His jaw intentionally or unintentionally brushed over her cheek while smiling lightly.

“I’m not going to watch others bully my dog--”

Although he was smiling, there was not a trace of temperature in his eyes, so cold that it was appalling.

The smile on Samantha’s lips froze and tears welled up in her eyes instantly. She closed her eyes slowly, forcing her tears back.

At this point, Ruben’s warm embrace no longer brought her strength to be calm, it was as if she fell into an endless abyss of ice.

It was bone-chilling cold.

Her breath seemed like it would freeze into frost, but no matter how cold it was, the pain in her heart was getting worse.

Ruben saved Samantha.

Not out of pity, but mockery.

He wasn’t going to watch and let others bully his dog.

This was the value of her existence.

Samantha woke up all of a sudden and all the gratefulness that she had before this all turned into irony.

How could he be kind?

He wouldn’t.

So, will she still be moved that easily?

She’s the most pathetic person in the world.

When Samantha opened her eyes again, the pain and tears in them had faded away, in its place were hints of hatred.

“You broke your beloved’s heart for a plaything like me, so was it me being a bitch or you’re being stupid, Mr. Knight?”