Marie recognized Elsa since she had seen her countless times on banquets and everywhere where young ladies from wealthy families always met.
She looked at the woman with her but she couldn’t recognize her. When she heard Eunice's exclamation, she took it as Eunice was furious with Elsa. It wasn’t a new thing since Eunice always embarrassed Elsa every time they met and since the Flores have been declining. The things Marie was jealous of were Elsa’s looks, the fact she had a big brother, and that she was brought up in a richer family than hers.
“Amanda, what are you doing here?” Eunice asked as she felt that she would get a heart attack out of shock and anger.
Marie was shocked when she heard Eunice's words, she looked at the woman once more and saw a faint remembrance of Amanda from what she could remember. Seeing her more beautiful than before, Marie felt a sense of crisis and also jealousy.
Unlike the two, Amanda was so calm and looked at the two women in front of her as if they were clowns.
“Hello there, Eunice,” Amanda said with a smile on her face making Eunice grit her teeth as she wondered how the woman could still be calm after what had happened before and then meet with them.
“Don’t dare greet me. It’s so disgusting to be greeted by someone as poor as you,” Eunice exclaimed as she closed her nose with her fingers as if she was breathing something bad.
Elsa chuckled and shook her head upon hearing Eunice’s words. She wondered what her face would look like when she found out that she was the poor person between her and Amanda.
“You idiot. What are you laughing about, huh? Your family has been oppressed by my brother for years now. I can see that you are now wearing old clothes as you can’t afford a new dress,” Eunice said as she looked at Elsa angrily since she hated when someone laughed at them.
She wondered what right they had to laugh at her once she was richer than them while they ate from people’s mercies.
“Well, have you seen us shutting down our company or declaring bankruptcy? No! Also, how does it concern you whether I am wearing an old dress or not? Let me tell you something, I got some information that you were here doing shopping thus I opted to wear this dress and come and show it in front of you since I remembered that you once wanted to buy this dress but you couldn’t afford as you didn’t have enough money to buy it,” Elsa said with a proud look on her face making Eunice angrier.
Marie rolled her eyes when she saw how agitated Eunice was after just being told such a small thing. To her, Eunice was so stupid but he had to tolerate her since she was Damien’s sister and she wanted to get married into that family. She had to befriend Eunice so she could help her to enter into the Scott family.
“Elsa, how can you say that to her? Aren’t you afraid that Damien might retaliate against your family when he hears about how you are talking to his little sister?” Marie asked, making Eunice roll her eyes.
“Huh! Look at who we got here, the mistress of the year. Maybe I should propose that there should be a trophy for such despicable people,” Elsa said loudly, making the people around them look at them.
Marie gritted her teeth but she did not dare something. She pretended to be pitiful and wronged. Eunice saw that she was hurt when defending her making her even become more angry at her.
“Don’t tell me that now you are with your friend, that you have a mouth to dare talk back at us. Let me remind you that Amanda divorced my brother a long time ago and he loves Marie. Amanda was the one who came between my brother and Marie. She is the mistress, not Marie,” Eunice said loudly and angrily.
Marie smirked secretly upon hearing that but later continued playing the innocent victim without knowing that Amanda had already seen her small actions.
“Huh? What? Do you want us to ask the onlookers who is the shameless mistress between her and Amanda? She gave between a husband and a wife and seduced the husband. Making the husband forget his duties and start mistreating his wife just for the mistress. Having had enough of it, the wife divorced the husband and left him to be with the skimming mistress. Now look at how she is pretending to be pitiful, innocent and wronged yet she ruined someone’s marriage,” Elsa said loudly, making people start murmuring as they looked at Marie.
“I was also deceived by her looks. She sure knows how to pretend.”
“I had thought highly of them because of the way they were dressed and carried themselves but now, I even feel that I should clean my eyes for seeing such a dirty thing.”
“Young girl, you better stop walking together with her or even being friends with her. She will make you also be a mistress just as she is. Or even worse, she will next steal your boyfriend or husband from you just like she stole the other.”
“I am sure that she is using that man’s money. Can she buy things using her money or her parents?”
The onlookers continued talking about them while cursing at her, making Elsa smirk in satisfaction. She had gone through a lot in their hands ever since Amanda left but now she had a powerful backer, she was not afraid of them.
Marie felt as if she could beat them up as had never thought that there would be a time that she would suffer such humiliation and even cursed at because of a person whose family had no money.
“Stop. This woman is lying. We don’t even know her,” Marie said after listening to what people were saying about her.
“Yes, we don’t know her. How can we rich people get to know such poor people? From the way they are dressed and from how we are dressed, do you think that we know each other? We are in different worlds,” Eunice said hurriedly, backing her friend up but she didn’t know that she had made matters worse.