Rona Langdon gritted her teeth. She felt the atmosphere was off today, so she decided to ask Zachary Preston for her "salary" another day. 'Besides, all his money is hers anyway!'
Seeing Rona Langdon's greedy and snobbish eyes, Vera Xavier felt a flicker of worry. From what she knew of Rona, she was a quintessentially greedy and malicious woman. Because of her rebirth, it was like the butterfly effect—the trajectory of many events had changed. She wondered if the events from her past life would now happen sooner.
'I need to start paying closer attention to certain things.'
That very night, Cara Preston came down with a high fever. In the middle of the night, she knocked on Vera Xavier's door and said weakly, "Vera, I feel so awful!"
Vera Xavier thought that Cara Preston was really something else. She'd caused her no end of trouble, yet now that she was sick, Vera was the first person she thought of. 'Is this just another way to torment me?'
