Chapter 80: Chapter 80



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As soon as he said that, everyone looked over.

Sheril immediately felt her face flush with embarrassment, as if she was living off someone’s charity.

Rachel, however, didn’t let her off the hook. “You can ask your mother to make an appointment. That way you can also attend her classes. By the way, does your mother have any contacts-do you want my mother to put her in touch with the relevant people?”

After the Andersons fell into decline, as Simon’s wife, Melissa’s status had also fallen.

However, her family, the Woods, not only didn’t help her at all, they even rubbed it in.

Take, for example, what was currently going on. What Rachel had said had told everyone that, although Melissa had been part of the Woods in the past, her current authority and connections were not as good as the Woods’.

Sheril clenched her fists and tried her best to look calm as she replied, “No, it’s okay. I’m not really interested in dancing anyway…”.

Rachel curved her lip. “Really?”

She glanced at Caden. Then, as if she were talking about Sheril but also hinting at something else, she said, “Too bad.”

After that, he turned and looked at the other people there.

However, when she did, she saw that everyone who had been milling around and asking about Tanya was now looking curiously at Nora.

The plainly dressed young woman easily became the center of the crowd’s attention just by standing there gracefully.

Rachel frowned. She took the initiative to approach, took Sheril’s hand with a smile, and asked softly, “Who is it, Sheril?”

Sheril suppressed her awkwardness and embarrassment, naturally, made the introductions. “This is Nora, my oldest aunt’s daughter.”

A surprised Rachel immediately exclaimed aloud, “Huh? So that’s you! I couldn’t tell from your figure that you had given birth before.”

The words ‘given birth before’ astonished everyone present.

Rachel covered her mouth and looked at the two apologetically. She said, “I’m sorry, for a moment I spoke without thinking. Nora, you don’t mind, do you?”.

To outsiders, premarital pregnancies were considered immoral behavior. Under normal circumstances, even if one’s family wouldn’t help you hide it, you wouldn’t go public like that either.

However, Rachel had mentioned it as soon as she arrived. This instantly made everyone look at her in a different way.

Nora could hear someone nearby whisper, “Tsk, she seems pretty pure and innocent. I didn’t expect her to have children already.”

“Why is someone like her here to dance, is she trying to flirt with someone?”

Sheril frowned. She stepped in front of Nora and said, “Don’t talk nonsense, Rachel. Nora’s just here to learn how to dance.”

Rachel looked down and smiled, “In that case, does she have a dance partner yet?”

Sheril looked around at the others present.

Most of the people who came to dance didn’t come at set intervals. Nor did they have steady dance partners. At first she had thought it would be very easy to find Nora a dance partner, since she was so pretty.

However, Rachel’s words a moment ago had made everyone dislike Nora.

I was about to say something when Nora smiled and said, “That’s all right, Sheril. I’ll just watch you dance.”

Sheril said, “Nora, you…”

Nora lowered her eyes. “It’s okay, really.”

Sheril knew that trying to comfort her further now would only cause the opposite effect, so she could only give her a resigned nod.

When the dance teacher arrived, everyone split into pairs and began to dance.

A bored Nora leaned against the wall and played with her cell phone while watching Sheril out of the corner of her eye.

Caden was unexpectedly a good dancer.

International ballroom dancing was done in pairs of men and women. In particular, if the men were strong enough, their dancing was very exciting to watch when they led the woman.

Caden was probably a professional. He held Sheril by the waist and danced, the two of them forming a dazzling spectacle. Gradually, they became the center of all the dancers in the room.

As they danced, Sheril was also constantly looking at Nora.

Suddenly she suggested, “Caden, why don’t you dance with Nora later?”.

Caden was a little reluctant. He replied, “I wanted to say it just now, but someone like her who got pregnant before she was married must have a very profligate lifestyle in private. Sheril, you shouldn’t associate too much with her.”

An unhappy looking Sheril said, “You don’t even know what Nora looks like or anything about her past, why would you say that?”

Caden frowned. “Okay, okay, I won’t say anything else. She doesn’t look like she’s danced before, though. I’m a professional; it may not be appropriate for me to lead her in a dance.”

Her eyes were downcast and she seemed evidently reluctant.

After the dance, Sheril left Caden’s side and turned to Nora.

Beside them, Rachel clenched her fists as she watched what she was doing.

Although her dance partner was also quite good, in the end she couldn’t compare to Caden.

Obviously, Sheril didn’t dance as well as she did, and yet, since Caden was the one leading her, he had danced better than she did!

Furious, Rachel narrowed her eyes. Then suddenly she turned to Caden…..

Sheril was good-natured and had a cheerful personality.

Although she found Caden’s words distasteful, she knew that ultimately he didn’t know her cousin’s circumstances, so it was understandable that he would misunderstand them. So, after some counseling, she decided to explain to Caden what had happened to Nora.

She did not have a spendthrift lifestyle. Rather, she had been cheated.

But as soon as she turned around, she saw Caden and Rachel walking toward her together.

The two were behaving intimately, which made Sheril frown.

Caden looked a little uncomfortable, but nonetheless ventured, “Next dance I’ll do it with Rachel, Sheril.”

Sheril’s eyes widened. “What?”

Rachel smiled and took Caden’s arm. She said, “I’m sorry, Sheril. My partner and I aren’t quite a good fit. Caden is the best dancer in our class, so I thought if we danced together, I could get Miss Turner to give him some pointers, too. It’s mutually beneficial for both of us, after all. You won’t mind, will you?”

Sheril was so angry her hands were shaking.

She looked at Caden with red eyes.

He had refused to dance with her cousin when she had asked him a moment ago, and now he was going to dance with Rachel?

It was clear that he knew she and Rachel were at odds. And that he was always looking for opportunities to bully her!

Sheril felt a lump in her throat and felt betrayed. She asked, “Are you sure you want to do that, Caden?”

Caden replied quietly, “You know I specialize in dance, so I’ll have to enter international ballroom dance competitions. If I can get some tips from Miss Turner, I’m sure I’ll benefit a lot from it!”

Sheril clenched her fists and said, “Caden, I’ll let you choose: either you dance with me or we break up, in which case you’re free to dance with whomever you want to!”

Caden frowned and said, “You’re being unreasonable, Sheril!”.

Rachel also said calmly, “Sheril, I’m just asking Caden to dance with me – why are you making such a big deal out of it, how can you hold Caden back like that?”

She scoffed, “It’s the Andersons who can’t get Miss Turner as a dance teacher, and yet you forbid me to help her? If you could get her as a teacher and have her give Caden some tips, He wouldn’t have chosen to dance with me either!”

Sheril turned pale and tried to hold back tears.

At that moment, an extremely cold and indifferent voice came to them. “Who says the Andersons can’t get Tanya to teach us how to dance?”.

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