Chapter 164: A Intern

Evan harbored no concern over potential disruption; at such affairs, those with self-awareness invariably gravitated towards the nucleus, where scrutiny shone brightest.

Yet this time, his expectations proved mistaken. Even as he relished his surreptitious feasting, two pairs of eyes had locked malignantly upon him from across the hall.

Slipping from the sycophantic throngs, the snaggle-toothed Anthony Taylor nursed a glass of wine as he approached Evan's direction, Derek Walker in tow. In truth, from the moment of Evan's arrival, Anthony had marked his presence, yet as the mayor's son and centerpiece of this very gala, he could scarce extricate himself until finally addressing the last deferential well-wisher.

Together, these two represented Lumina's greatest "Princeling" scions.

Their convergence instantly commanded the hall's rapt attention.

"Why are those young masters heading towards that vagrant?"

"Could that casually-dressed fellow be some hidden blueblood?"

"Impossible, this
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