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"You must be joking, Mister Nicolai. For this woman, you want to offend me and my family——"
"Collin, did you lose your mind somewhere?" Nicolai held a disapproving look on his face. "Do I look like the kind of person who needs to worry about offending your family?"
Collin's face flushed with embarrassment, and his embarrassment intensified even further when he glanced around him and noticed that his friends were looking at him.
Noticing the contemptuous expressions and mocking smiles targeted at him, Collin glared at Nicolai and Ariana. He said, "Mister Nicolai, do not forget that our family and yours have held a special cooperation for years. Do you want to ruin it for a woman?"
