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But now, it looked like they were gravely mistaken.

Worse still, was that he brought this upon himself.

The older guests grumbled among themselves about how the younger generation lacked manners and discretion these days.

Most of Brinleigh’s contemporaries took pleasure in his eventual downfall, and wasted no time in recording the feed on their own phones.

Some big shots, on the other hand, smashed their glasses and banged their fists on the table, declaring that they would never do business with the Hernandez family again before storming out.

Back upstairs, the situation wasn’t any better.

Nathan stepped in front of Lucinda and covered her eyes with his hand.

He didn’t want her to get even a single glance at the naked Brinleigh.

She harrumphed and complained.

“What is it? Come on, let me see what’s happening in there.

”

With an impatient sigh, Nathan scooped her up into his arms.

“You’re the youngest one here,” came his gentle admonishment.

“I can’t let them taint your sight or tarnish your innocent mind.

Be a good girl, okay? Let’s return downstairs.

”

Thankfully, Lucinda didn’t insist further.

She simply wrapped her arms around his neck and settled comfortable in his embrace.

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As they passed by Santos, Nathan stopped.

“I will not let this slide,” he said in a cutting voice.

“Just you wait!”

Santos froze as the implication of those words struck him, while Tricia called frantically for their servants to pull the reporters away.

It was all they could do not to collapse from the stress of it all.

“Nathan wait! This matter…”

But Nathan didn’t let Santos finish whatever explanation he tried to give, and just strode away with Lucinda.

She peeked above her shoulder and looked at her brother, who was already staring after them.

Lucinda mouthed a few words to him.

She watched as things clicked in Cyrus’ mind.

She had just asked him to check on Noelle.

He frowned, his thoughts racing.

Then, he suddenly snapped into attention and bolted in the opposite direction of the staircase to look for Noelle.