Chapter 49.
Author: Blackrose
last update2023-01-10 13:26:52

Evelyn and her friends gathered that Sunday for their usual meetings. It had been announced that they shifted it to a weekly basis now since monthly was just not enough time for them to catch up and gist and gossip again.

Many of the women in the association were no other than jobless women whose husbands were rich while they were not far from being spoiled brats. Evelyn had never been different from them, until the mess their family got entangled with that had suddenly turned her nearly poor.

"So the newly wedded couples have suddenly ended their relationship?" One of the women, Regina said, and the rest of them roared out of laughter. The meeting was held in Evelyn's living room, because it was her turn for her to host them. They switched turns weekly. Regina was in her early forties, and was a proud and arrogant woman. She and Evelyn were far from being friends because they always took the slightest opportunity to compete with each other on who was best.

"I am quite shocked myse
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