"You!"
Isabella's face flushed a deep, enraged crimson. She was trembling with absolute fury.
But Serena completely dismissed her, her gaze slowly drifting over to Augus as her red lips curled upward inch by inch.
Her smile was bitterly cold.
"The king of the track?"
She let out a scoff, her eyes filled with blistering contempt. "Is this the best you can do? Bullying a bunch of sheltered kids at a place like this?"
Augus was instantly triggered, the veins in his forehead bulging aggressively. "What the hell did you just say? I gave you an out, and you spat in my face! If you have a death wish, I'll gladly grant it! Let's go! Bring your ass to the track! Let's see just how much of the world a little hillbilly like you has actually seen!"
Anna's eyes darted slyly, and she let out a sickeningly sweet laugh. "Serena, since everyone is hyping you up so much, why don't we raise the stakes?"
"For my coming-of-age ceremony, Grandpa gave me a Vinton family estate. The market value is around thirty million dollars. Just to welcome you to our circle, I'll put the estate up as a prize."
"If you win, the estate is all yours."
The last few words.
She dragged out the syllables with deliberate temptation.
Certain that Serena wouldn't be able to resist such a massive lure and would blindly agree to the race.
After all, Serena was just a girl who grew up in the middle of nowhere. She had never seen true wealth.
Just that morning, she had casually mentioned betting the coming-of-age gift her dad gave her, and the moment Serena heard, she had tried to claim her ten-million- dollar supercar.
She was practically foaming at the mouth for money!
Greedy for absolutely anything she could get her hands on!
Now that she knew there was a thirty-million-dollar estate on the line, she'd
definitely be desperate to snatch it up.
As long as Serena dared to step onto that track.
Anna had plenty of ways to make sure she never walked off it!
This entire place was crawling with her people.
When the time came, she would just tell their grandparents that Serena had overestimated herself, foolishly challenged Augus, and ended up in a horrific wreck because of her own incompetence.
No matter how hard their grandparents looked into it.
It would have absolutely nothing to do with her or Isabella.
Anna could already picture the brutal carnage that would await Serena on the asphalt.
She couldn't hold back a triumphant laugh, the malice in her eyes practically overflowing. "So? How about it? All you have to do is hit the gas, and you can change your miserable broke destiny and walk away with a thirty-million-dollar estate. Are you shaking with excitement yet? You couldn't even dream of this kind of wealth, could you? You should be thanking me for giving you a shortcut to the top..."
Smack!
Anna didn't get to finish her sentence.
A sleek, matte-black card with a solid gold trim slammed directly into her face with
the sharp, stinging crack of a physical slap.
It bounced off her cheek and clattered onto the pavement.
The card's gold edges caught the stadium lights, flashing a brutal, icy gleam.
"Thirty million? How pathetic."
Serena crossed her arms, lifting her
gaze with an aura of arrogant
indifference "If you want to raise kes, then let's actually raise
them."
"One hundred million dollars. Do you have the guts to call it?"
The moment the words left her mouth.
The entire crowd went into a frenzy.
"One hundred million?! Dollars?!"
"She's insane! Where the hell would she get that kind of cash?"
"Isn't she a bumpkin who grew up in the country? How could she possibly have that kind of money?"
"I've never even seen a hundred-million-dollar pot before!"
The crowd erupted into chaotic whispers, doubt echoing from every direction.
Anna stared at the black card, her cheek burning with stinging pain where it had hit
her.
She practically shrieked, losing complete control. "Bullshit! Where the hell would you get a hundred million?"
Augus narrowed his eyes, staring
suspiciously at the card as he let out
a cold sneer. "Just because you say
there's a hundred million doesn't
mean it's there demand to see
proof of funds!"