INDOMITABLE ROMEO STORMBREAKER

CHAPTER 224

As the numbers on the screen came into focus, a hush fell over the grand hall. The collective gasps of the audience broke the silence. "One point six million dollars!" Most of the people in the audience exclaimed, as their voice was filled with incredulity.

Tabitha Scornfield felt a cold shiver shoot down her spine, her smug demeanor began to crumble.

A knot tightened in her stomach, the triumph she had relished just moments before now turned to a gnawing dread.

How could Romeo, supposedly broke and humiliated, afford such an enormous sum?

Questions whirled in her mind, and each one was more unsettling than the last.

Had she underestimated him? Was there a hidden benefactor? Or had he been concealing his true financial status all along?

The shock and confusion on the faces around her mirrored her own internal turmoil.

The audience, too, was caught in a wave of disbelief. Murmurs of astonishment spread through the room as people tried to process what they had just witnessed.

Rome