"Hello." Ms. Annie smiled friendly at Steve Burton and clinked glasses with Ruby Gregory, drinking a sip of alcohol elegantly.
Before attending the dinner party, Maya Mitchell told Ruby a lot of precautions, which Ruby firmly kept in mind. However, she realized that the dinner party was not as complicated as she had imagined when she was actually there.
Throughout the whole dinner table, she and Ms. Annie's assistant seemed like redundant presences. The most they did from start to finish was pour alcohol.
Ruby could understand English, and the conversation between Ms. Annie and Steve was about things unrelated to work. Steve did not speak much and would occasionally say a sentence or two; most of the time, it was Ms. Annie who spoke endlessly, talking about her recent trips, new cooperation strategies with various companies, and even recommending some delicacies and scenery to Steve.
