greed and arrogance

Married for A Million Dollars:

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Chapter 20: greed and arrogance

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“Good afternoon, madame.” Jasmine, the boutique’s manager, drawls in an accented falsetto. Her poor attempt at French only worsens her overall image as she meets them in the waiting room, dressed dramatically in a fiery red and black ensemble.

All it took was one minute for Ariana to dislike Jasmine. Her personality is a compressed force of impishly girlish—and obviously fake—features, a sweet voice dripping in venom, and dark lips curling haughtily at every word.

Her disgust was more than evident when they were first introduced. In fact, she sent Ariana daggers the second she immediately noticed her flipping through a designer’s lookbook while Lance was discussing something with the suite’s assistants.

Throwing her one more dirty glare, she turned to Lance and babbled how honored she felt working for the future Montenegro.

Lance simply blinked at her, perplexed by the undivided attention, before returning to Jasmine a