Nemesis Game

While they were both known to be polite, the situation between Gabriel and Ruben was getting tense. The other presidents at the meeting were holding their breath.

What was going on today? Gabriel was known for having a great temper, but he went against Ruben because of a woman?

The air became heavy and suffocating.

Ruben's gaze was sharp and cold like a blade, and he locked his gaze on Gabriel and Samantha.

"I'm surprised that you care so much about my personal affairs, Mr. Baker," said Ruben in a low and emotionless voice, "I cannot help but think that you probably have a crush on me, not on her." Samantha didn't know that Ruben could be so sharp-tongued.

Was he trying to gossip about Gabriel? Sarcastically saying that Gabriel was in love with him?

Samantha looked to the side and Gabriel wasn't affected at all. He wasn't even mad, "Mr. Knight, you are thinking too much. My sexual orientation is normal."

"Really, I can't tell," Ruben squinted his eyes, giving out an oppressive aura.

Samantha found it hard to breathe all of a sudden. Ruben was Ruben. It had been a while and she was still traumatized by him.

But she didn't love him anymore.

Why should she still be afraid of him?

She should grow some backbone and try to look into his eyes without any fear.

Samantha wasn't Samantha anymore. She was now Helena.

"Mr. Knight, there's a lot of things that one can't tell just by looking, just like how I can't tell what you are thinking right now. Your wife just died in a fire, yet you announced your marriage with Ms. Moore and flaunted it around." Gabriel's tone of voice was turning serious, with a hint of mockery and antipathy, "I pity Mrs. Knight."

Ruben's pupil contracted and there was a wave of emotions surging in his eyes.

Normally, he was good at controlling his emotions, but his whole body was exploding in rage right now, "Gabriel...”

He didn't move and was just standing still, but the way he said his name sent shivers down their spines.

"I don't want to hear a word about that woman, and my patience is running thin."

His voice was calm and emotionless, yet it was cutting open Samantha's calm face like a sharp knife.

That woman?

Samantha felt like someone threw hot sand into her body and it was burning her flesh.

Her gaze cracked, the fine lines seemed to be filled with deep agony.

Ruben hated her so much that he didn't even want to hear her name after she died.

She thought she couldn't feel pain anymore, but her heart was hurting as if it was trying to remind her about the anguish.

"Haha..." Samantha who was standing next to Gabriel suddenly laughed. She looked up and one could see her nicely shaped chin, "Mr. Baker, you are wrong."

"Hmm?" Gabriel looked at her quietly with his amber coloured eyes.

Samantha laughed and met Ruben's eyes. She said every word clearly with disgust and contempt, "Mrs. Knight wasn't pitiful, she was just blind."

She swept her plainful gaze across his cold face. She smiled even more profoundly.

"If she wasn't blind, why would she marry such a man?"

Her tone of voice was filled with disdain and sarcasm, there was also deep hatred in her eyes.

Her pain was all covered up by her hatred,

It went silent in the room.

What she said triggered Ruben, and he felt like his heart was being stabbed by a knife.

Samantha married him because she was blind?

No, he never wanted to marry her in the first place. It was all her doing and she did everything to achieve it.

But now that she died, Ruben felt like that wasn't the case.

The deep wound in his heart reopened, and it happened every time he heard her name.

His eyes dimmed and he stared eerily at the courageous woman in front of him, "You'd better tell your woman to watch her mouth, Mr. Baker. I don't need to be lectured." Gabriel put his hands in his pocket, with a smile on his handsome and elegant face, "I will, there's no need for you to worry about it, Mr. Knight."

Gabriel glanced at Ruben for the last time and walked out with Samantha in his hand.

Gabriel was tall and they looked like a great couple next to each other.

Ruben's eyes were ultra-wintry, and the words that Helena spouted and her expression when she said it kept replaying in his mind.

Why did she feel so familiar?

But she was obviously not Samantha.

Then, who was she?

Was she really Helena Powell?

Samantha walked away quickly. She wanted to escape that cold and concentrated gaze on her as soon as she could. Her face was pale and her palms were sweating.

She wanted to run away from the tense and dangerous situation. Her heart was beating violently until she finally got on Gabriel luxurious sport car. She finally calmed down. "And you said you practised for three months?" said Gabriel as he looked at her coldly, and his words were heavy.

Samantha felt her scalp tingled as he gazed at her coldly, "Mr. Baker..."

She was sure that he was the one who rescued her behind the scene and made her go through plastic surgery. It was all his plan.

But she didn't know why he did that.

"If you wanted to run away the moment you see Ruben..." Gabriel laid his back lazily against the soft seat, "How are you going to get back all those that belong to you?" The atmosphere in the car turned weird, and it was suffocating.

"Well...I'm not afraid to die." Samantha's heart was in her throat, and she clutched her hands together.

Gabriel scoffed, he looked at her coldly, "That could be advantageous."

He then handed Samantha a document. His fingers were slender.

"Sign it."

Samantha signed her name on the last page without even looking through it.

Gabriel was slightly taken aback, "Aren't you scared?"

"Scared of what?" She met his eyes without fear, "I lost everything. You rescued me and you're going to help me win everything back. I don't care what your motives are, I will say yes to anything." Gabriel smiled deeply, "It's good to be smart."

Samantha wasn't dumb, Gabriel was the third son in the Baker family. She didn't know why he put in so much effort to save her, but his motives were really not important at all to her. "Tomorrow, you will be the brightest star in the entertainment industry."

Gabriel took the contract and caressed it with his slender finger, there was a hint of dejection on his handsome face.

"Are you looking forward to tomorrow? Making Ruben's dear woman take the blow?" said Gabriel slowly, who then lazily lighted up a cigarette.

Samantha let go of her clenched fist and there was determination in her eyes.

"Of course, I'm more excited than you."

Gabriel smiled deeply and took a puff, and the smoke wreathed around his face. His gaze pierced through the smoke and he was staring at her. "Samantha..." he said as he paused briefly. He said word by word.

"You should go home now."0000