“Ten billion dollars?!”
The scene suddenly fell silent.
Hayley was stunned for a few seconds. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing and turned to Jim, who looked shocked, “Darling, did I hear that right? Tara just said… Ten billion, right?”
“You heard right, it’s indeed ten billion dollars,” Jim replied as he swallowed hard.
Hayley’s heart skipped a beat, but then she quickly snapped back to reality. She assumed that Tara was lying. Setting aside Cameron’s impoverished appearance, she felt it was impossible for him to have ten billion dollars!
One must be a prominent figure to have ten billion dollars in a bank.
She felt that Tara was just boasting because Cameron wasn’t immediately attended to by a teller. She didn’t want to be outdone, so she resorted to exaggeration.
“Tara, after all these years, I didn’t expect you to become someone who brags like that. Ten billion? Why not make it even more exaggerated and say a hundred billion?” Hayley scoffed as her eyes were filled with mockery.
“Believe it or not,” Tara responded coolly.
“Oh really? You must be living a callous life now, huh?” Hayley’s sneered.
“Hmm?” Tara’s eyebrows furrowed. She wondered what Hayley was plotting now.
“I know you don’t want to be embarrassed in front of our old classmates. You just don’t wanna admit it,” Hayley said with a smug look as if she had read Tara’s mind, “After all, you used to be our class beauty and the head of the student committee.”