A DEADLY TRAP
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Karen walked briskly towards them and grabbed Eleanor's jaw, giving her a loud slap while she was still lying on the pile of cake which made the mess.

Everyone gasped in surprise, they have never seen him so furious.

“Do they pay you to be so lazy and clumsy?” Stephanie, Karen's sister asked angrily, setting down her glass of red wine.

“This painting you just destroyed is the ethereal ascendance painting worth a billion dollars, how are you going to repay me?” Karen roared furiously, kicking her belly.

“Ah? Wasn't it worth four hundred million dollars? When did it appreciate to a billion dollars?” A guest whispered, talking to her companion in a low voice.

“It was a trap. But who is she? Why are they paying her attention?” Another whispered.

Eleanor's heart jumped out of her chest. Immediately she heard the price.

“I wasn't the one that destroyed the painting! I was walking before them with the trolley bearing the cake, only for them to hit me from behind with the painting, knocking m
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