Dumped My Cheating Ex. Now I'm Sleeping Next to a Billionaire CEO novel Chapter 1444

At this moment, Laney, standing at the very front of the first floor, was completely furious. She snatched the microphone from the host's hand and roared at the surrounding hall. 'Who exactly is playing ghosts and acting mysterious? Get the hell out here! You have the guts to spout nonsense and cause trouble here, but you don't have the guts to come out and confront us!'

Having fought in overseas business circles for years, Laney's furious roar exuded an overwhelming presence. The banquet hall fell silent for a moment. Immediately afterward, the crisp clicking sound of high heels echoed methodically through the speakers. On the spiral staircase leading downstairs, two figures slowly descended.

They were two exquisitely dressed wealthy women. They wore custom-tailored, hand-embroidered silk dresses and draped priceless, luxurious mink furs over their shoulders. The one walking on the right held a retro jade-boned folding fan, waving it casually. Her meticulously maintained hair was loosely pinned up with a top-tier imperial green jade hairpin. As the two drifted downstairs, they exuded an aura of arrogant, looking-down-upon-everyone superiority. The massive hall of over a thousand people fell into an eerie silence the moment they clearly saw the two women. The oppressive aura of top-tier elite families washing over them instinctively made many ordinary fans hold their breath.

Due to the angle, Emmy, standing on the VIP balcony, had her view blocked by a massive load-bearing column. She frowned and was just about to step forward to investigate when Brett quickly returned upstairs. He lowered his voice to report. 'Captain, Madam, it's Martha and Shelly.'

Hearing these two names, Emmy's gaze instantly turned cold. James's mother, Shelly, and the Nelson family's Martha. Why were they here?

Emmy looked up at the man in confusion. James wrapped his arm around her waist and explained in a low voice. 'If it comes to a battle of words with people like that, no one downstairs can out-talk Nina. That girl has a sharp tongue, so letting her go deal with those two is perfect. We will stand here for now and see exactly what kind of play they intend to put on today.'

After a moment of thought, Emmy leaned back against the carved railing and continued looking at the banquet hall. Actually, she was extremely curious too. She and James had clearly kept their itinerary secret and come to this fan gathering low-key. But even if they had run into each other by chance, this was, after all, her, Emmy's, fan gathering. By coming here to crash the event, were Shelly and Martha not afraid of James's retaliation afterward? What's more, Martha was currently at a critical juncture in her bid to seize power. To wrest the highest decision-making authority of Nelson Corporation from the third master of the Nelson family, she had been trying hard to secretly rope Emmy in recently. At a crucial moment like this when she needed allies, there was absolutely no reason for her to run over and invite trouble with Emmy. While her mind raced with thoughts, Martha and Shelly had already clicked in their high heels all the way to the front of the stage in the banquet hall.