CHAPTER 181 OLD FRIENDS

Energy-fused music erupted from the speakers as a crowd of elaborately dressed guests in assorted types of expensive regalia walked from one place to another, most of them in pairs. Close to the center of the room, a woman wriggled herself and performed an exhibition on a pole. A small crowd watched her, some of them with drinks in hand. A few of them wore smiles on their faces, while the others looked surprised and awestruck at the performer. On one side of the room, a double door slid open to reveal Jake and Samantha stepping out of an elevator into the yellow-lit ballroom. Jake, in a well-tailored black tux, had Samantha’s arm entangled in his. Samantha clutched onto her well-tailored ball gown with her free hand, preventing it from sweeping the floor as they walked in, wearing small smiles. Jake tried not to look too surprised, and Samantha was struggling to control, giving off a look of awe. A large, muscular man who seemed to have been inflated with air to achieve his size st