A False Heiress's Guide to Love and Power

Chapter 322

“If they look down on us so much, there’s no need to force themselves to come all the way here.”

“Hmph! Of all people, why did we have to invite that ungrateful brat?” Magda grumbled, snatching up her purse. Hamilton rose too, face dark with irritation.

The butler followed silently behind them, not uttering a word.

The once pleasant atmosphere had soured. When Brendan came inside, he found Karen already asleep, her breathing calm and even. He let out a weary sigh and quietly called Alessia out to the hallway.

Alessia closed the bedroom door gently behind her. “Mom was exhausted today,” she said softly. “She just wiped her face, sat for a moment, and fell right asleep.”

“I see,” Brendan nodded, sighing again.

“They’re gone?” Alessia asked.

grandparents passed, the Quincy family hasn’t been the same. You shouldn’t let them get to you. If they ever try to bother you again, just

was frail. At just three or four years old, her parents sent her off to live with her grandparents in the countryside, claiming it was for her health, but

her grandparents were nothing like her parents. They loved and protected her fiercely. It wasn’t until she was about to start

in love, but her parents objected from the start and even tried to

then, Brendan thought the Quincys just looked down on him for being poor. He worked himself to the bone, started projects, and did everything he could to prove himself to Karen’s family–only to realize later that they didn’t care if their son–in–law loved their daughter; all they wanted was someone who could benefit the Quincy

took Brendan back to the countryside to see her grandparents, saying their blessing was the only one she needed. Sadly,

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wedding. Before they died, their only wish was for Karen and Brendan to live a good life and not fall out completely with

for the Quincys constantly telling others that we kept showing up to beg for the family fortune, things might not have gotten so bad. But then we got accused of being insincere. After that last negotiation, we gave them three million and officially cut

hard these years had been for Karen. She’d kept so much bottled up, and now, just as they’d finally found some peace, the

she’d been brought back, she’d been treated like an outsider, constantly criticized, gossiped about, accused

quietly, her gaze lowered, saying