A Vengeful Ex-Wife
Chapter 429 Working For Her

"Maria, I envy you for having such a generous friend like Mrs. Zheng."

Rosa, who had been on her guard since the beginning, started to relax as praises were heaped upon her person from other party guests.

Maria raised her glass and declared, "Rosa, let bygones be bygones! I absolutely adore this necklace. I'd like to propose a toast to you!" Then, the woman drained the contents of her wine glass. Rosa could hardly refuse to drink after such a gesture, so she drank a glass of wine in one gulp, too.

Then, other guests came over one after another to propose a toast to Rosa. "Mrs. Zheng, where did you buy the necklace? How much was it?"

"About thirty million dollars, in Brazil."

The woman's eyes lit up. "Wow! Thirty million dollars! How generous of you, Mrs. Zheng! It's my honor to get to know you. Let me propose a toast to you!"

Tonight, Maria showed respect to Rosa, which built up her confidence and dignity among these people. Thus, her mood was greatly improved. The others were enthusiastic to propose a toast to her, so she drank several more glasses of wine.

Maria looked over at Rosa, who was busily talking and laughing with others, and a mocking sneer twisted her mouth. Then, she winked at a black-clad woman in the corner of the room.

Sending her a slight nod in return, the woman approached the party's host and clinked her wine glass with the man. "Mr. Sima, happy birthday," the woman greeted him.

"Thank you!"

"Actually, there is something you need to know, but I'm not sure whether I should tell you. After all, you are married."

Curious, Tate reassured her, "It's alright, you can tell me. Go on."

"It's about Rosa." Tate's gaze followed the woman's to land on Rosa, who was chatting and drinking in the middle of a group of people.

"She has always been interested in you, but she doesn't dare to confess. She's been begging Maria to take her to your birthday party when she found out that today is your birthday."

Confusion clouded Tate's expression upon hearing this. "Wait. Isn't her husband Colby Zheng?"

The woman appeared a little surprised. "Yes, but both of them have lovers. Don't you know that Colby has an illegitimate son?"

"I've heard rumors about it, but I don't know if they're true."

"Well, Mr. Sima, where there's smoke, there's fire."

Tate nodded, appearing to be deep in thought. "You have a point."

"Just now, she said that she has seen you several times before and that she greatly admires you. She doesn't dare to approach you because you are married."

"Really?" Evidently from the man's self-satisfied expression, this piece of information had stroked his ego.

"Yes. I just thought that you should know, but please let this be off the record, Mr. Sima. Don't tell anyone that I was the one who told you." The woman smiled and soon walked away after Tate gave her his word to not reveal the source of information.

At the end of the birthday party, the guests left one after another. Following suit, Maria stood up but then staggered and fell back on the sofa.

"Ms. Song, watch out!" Tate exclaimed, helping her up.

Maria waved her hand and glanced at the woman seated beside her. "Rosa, are you okay?"

"Yeah." Rosa was sitting with her head back and her eyes closed, obviously drunk.

Maria looked up at their host and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Sima, but Rosa seems to have drunk too much tonight. Could I trouble you to bring her home?"

"Of course I will!" Tate agreed without the least amount of hesitation. "How will you go back then, Ms. Song?"

"Oh, James will be picking me up. I'll just wait for him."

"Okay, I'll drive Mrs. Zheng home."

"Thank you."

Tate picked up the barely conscious woman and strode out of the door.

Once the others were gone, Maria's drunken lethargy suddenly evaporated, leaving a sober expression in her eyes.

With a sneer, she stood up and left.

Before she got in the car, she pulled the necklace off and signaled to a bodyguard hidden in the dark. "Take this and sell it. You can split the money with your colleagues!" The bodyguard hesitated. "But..."

Maria chucked the necklace at him, cutting off his protest. "Just take it! Thank you for your hard work!" Then, she whirled around and slipped inside the car.

Any gift from Rosa disgusted her, even if it was worth three hundred billion dollars.

After the car left the nightclub, Maria dialed a number. "Wire her the money, and inform Mr. Sima's wife to go back and catch the two of them in the act." "Yes, Ms. Song!"

Of course, Maria was the one who had arranged for the woman to tell Tate tonight that Rosa had a crush on him. That woman was on her payroll to do things for her.

In his manor, James was about to go to the bathroom when Maria stopped him. "Wait a minute."

"What's wrong? Do you want to join me? I don't mind." The man looked at her with an eyebrow raised teasingly.

Maria rolled her eyes at him. "I just wanted to ask you if you did anything behind my back on that day we went shopping."

"Didn't you ask me the same question already? What happened?" "If you didn't do anything, then what's with the new clothes in the closet?" Maria saw the new clothes and recognized them as the ones she had tried on that day. Just as she had suspected, James had asked someone to buy them.

James didn't know that she was referring to the clothes until she mentioned them. "I didn't do anything behind your back. What I did was to make a call and tell someone to buy them. I didn't tell that person to hide from you during the purchase."

Maria glared at him. He was playing with semantics!

To her surprise, he threw a question back at her. "Then why did you suspect me that day?"

"I guessed." She tried to muddle through.

The answer was obvious. James pointed it out to her. "Did you feel sorry for having tried on so many clothes without buying them that you secretly arranged for someone to purchase them for you? And then, did your people replace out that the clothes were already off the shelves? But you were not sure whether I had someone buy the clothes. You didn't ask me because you would have felt embarrassed if it turned ou that I didn't buy the clothes."

It was irritating, the way this man managed to read her mind so perfectly. Feigning annoyance, she pushed at his chest and growled, "Go to take your shower!"

Smiling, he grabbed her hand and kissed her wrist. "Okay."

"Hurry up!"

"Yes, ma'am!"

Maria had to comfort herself as James went to take his shower. It wasn't until she had gotten over her embarrassment that she lay down on the bed. The next morning, a sharp voice rang inside an apartment in a high-end community. "Tate! Bitch! You shameless people!"

The woman's strident voice managed to wake the couple sleeping in the bed. Rosa blearily opened her eyes and stared in shock at the unfamiliar ceiling. As she sat up, her head whirling, her eyes met the flashing eyes of the woman standing by the bedside.

Next to her, the man started putting on his clothes. "Honey, why are you back?"

In the next moment, the woman sprang forward and angrily slapped the disoriented Rosa across the face. "You slut! How dare you seduce my husband?!"

The sharp sting shook Rosa out of her daze. Looking down at her unclothed state, she suddenly understood the situation and fell back against the headboard, stunned. "What happened?" She was drunk last night, and then... She couldn't remember anything else.

Why was she in Tate's bed when she woke up?

"How dare you seduce my husband? I'm calling Colby Zheng!" Tate's wife took out her phone and began to dial a number like she had just threatened to do.

Rosa hastily stopped her. "No! Don't call him!" Heedless of her disarrayed state, she lunged out of the bed and attempted to snatch the woman's phone away. However, her hangover got the worst of her, leaving her without strength and suffering from a splitting headache.