Before she could retort, she saw Mr Garcia of Waves group, the very person she had come to see. She immediately ran after him with a flattering smile, deciding to let Anthony off the hook for now. She fished out the proposal from her bag, while doing her best to suck up to him. Anthony frowned as he watched her trying to flirt with Mr Garcia while he read the contract on the VIP table, where a seat was reserved for him.
"If you decide to invest in her, it will be the worst decision you can ever make." Ava declared loudly, walking towards the table with her guards and assistants.
Mr Garcia quickly stood up and bowed to Ava, greeting her. Priscilla frowned deeply at the interruption. She would have attacked Ava for her impudence If she didn't know the cold, arrogant beauty's identity.
Even the almighty Garcia family she's trying to suck up to can only lower their head before the Smith family. Besides, he was the most powerful youth in the Smith family, their invincible young mistress.
Priscilla swallowed her anger and turned to Ava.
"Miss Smith, we can eat carelessly but shouldn't speak carelessly. Why will you try to sabotage my partnership with the Garcias? I have not offended you in the past, so why the hatred?" Priscilla asked with a calm smile.
"Trash like you is not qualified to speak in my presence. Shut your smelly mouth and step aside. You are not qualified to share the air I breathe." Ava declared arrogantly before turning to Mr Garcia.
"You will lose your money if you invest because the brain behind her success is no longer there. The man secretly pulling the strings for her is no longer available for her use. The greedy witch poisoned him and asked for a divorce after he signed his wealth to her. The knights rose in two years like a shooting star because of him, yet she tried to kill him because of her greed. If she can ruin a man who picked her from the trenches and brushed her, and her family up with love, what will she not do to you? You're merely a business partner. Since she could use her husband as a stepping stone, strip him of his wealth, and poison him, she will waltz into your bed and repeat the same process just to swallow up the Garcias' wealth for herself." Ava declared.
Everyone in the VIP table began to scrutinize Priscilla who turned as pale as sheets.
"How do you know all this?" Mr Garcia asked skeptically.
"Oh, I know because her ex-husband is now my fiance." She announced, smiling happily.
Everyone frowned on hearing her words, Who could possibly be powerful enough to be Ava's fiance?
"The genius who programmed X-city suddenly disappeared because he decided to stand beside Priscilla Knight and support her dreams, only to be rewarded with poison. She thought she now had all his wealth, not knowing it was just a fraction of it. He was going to sign over the rest of his properties to her on their anniversary, but she poisoned him and dumped his body, a few days before the date. She stupidly thought she milked everything, but she was blind. She's a cheater, a liar, and a ruthless killer. I forbid everyone in Hill country from investing in her business, or doing business with her!" Ava ordered.
Priscilla shook in fear at her declaration. Her stomach was filled with bile and regret on hearing that Anthony still had money apart from the one she gained.
She wished she found out on time. If so, she would have apologized and reconciled with him, instead of attacking him.
"I have to thank you for letting go of him and revealing your true color. An honest and loyal man like him would not have agreed to leave his wife for my sake, especially with the way he was madly in love with you. But you made everything easier for me by attempting to kill him. Thank you, thank you so much." Ava said, holding Priscilla's hand with a grateful smile. Her creepy smile made people shiver and filled Priscilla with dread and regret.
"Ava! That's enough." Anthony said, walking towards her angrily.
Even though he hated Priscilla, he still didn't want her to suffer or go bankrupt.
"Oh honey." Ava said with a smile, pecking Anthony's cheek. The ice queen, who was wholesomely arrogant, was hugging Anthony like a little school girl and looking up at him, obviously star struck. Everyone wondered what kind of man could make the arrogant Ava who looked at men with disdain, doggedly go after him, seeing him like some prize.
"Why did you do that?" Tony asked angrily, the moment he entered the rolls-royce.
"I wanted to fill her with regret." Ava replied giggling, joining him in the car. Anthony frowned on seeing her join his convoy.
"To think that I have been searching for you while you were right under my nose, being suppressed by that woman. But why did you change your name? I was told to look for Stephen Meyers." Ava said and turned to him, looking confused.
"My middle name is Stephen. I'm Anthony Stephen Meyers." He clarified and shut his eyes absentmindedly.
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Ava looked at the entourage flying up to the air. Anthony was going back to Southern Dale with his family, making her feel a strange sense of loss and her eyes turned teary.
"You should not get too attached to him, his future is bleak." Diego whispered, standing beside his daughter.
Ava frowned and looked at him.
"What do you mean?" She asked in confusion.
"His family wants to kill him. Some people are unhappy because of his return. They will try to kill him on the guise of training. They want to send him to the perilous lands." He declared emotionlessly.
"Perilous lands? People rarely come back from there alive. It's a portal that leads to hell. No one has ever returned from the perilous lands. It's not even a part of earth. I need to warn him." she shouted, turning around with a sense of urgency.
"You will do no such thing! The perilous lands are no joke. They will force him to enter there. If he comes back successfully, he will be back stronger, as a powerful cultivator. If not, he will die and perish!" Diego shouted, holding her back.
"Guards, come here! Keep the young mistress locked up in her room and ensure she will not be able to contact the young master or send a warning. You can hate me for now, but I don't care. He can die, but not you. If the Meyer family realizes that you're close to him, they will uproot you like a weed to ensure that he won't have anyone to support him. Take her away!"
Ava gasped, holding her chest which kept constricting painfully. Traveling to the perilous lands, the portal to hell itself? What if he enters hell instead of entering the other world where he's meant to train? The portal led to two places, hell and the other dimension. How will he survive entering the perilous lands?