Chapter 332 A Tormenting Wait

The crowd’s eyes were instantly trained at the direction Alexandra cast. Victor could feel his hair standing on its end as he came to grips with the fact that things had gone out of his control. Never in his storied life had he expected his darling, docile little daughter, whose naughtiest shenanigans used to be disguising herself as a boy for a romp, to be such a reckless rebel. Tonight was supposed to be the engagement party held jointly by the Smiths and the Browns! They had invited so many members of high society as witnesses, but all they managed to witness was this fiasco! How could the Smiths’ reputation ever recover from this? In fact, Victor could already imagine just how irreparable the family’s name would become after tonight—and how bloody and bitter the Browns’ resentment was going to be. Had he known that this was going to happen, Victor would have rather canceled this sorry catastrophe of an engagement. There was, of course, a possible way to rescue the Smiths’ nosed