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.

but in the end, all they care about is money. Ever since your grandparents passed, the Quincy family hasn’t been the same. You shouldn’t let them get to

Karen was a child, she was frail. At just three or four years old, her parents sent her off to live with her

her parents. They loved and protected her fiercely. It wasn’t until she was about to start middle school that they reluctantly sent her back, wanting her to have

They fell in love, but her parents objected from the start and even tried to marry her off to someone else as

worked himself to the bone, started projects, and did everything he could to prove himself to Karen’s family–only to realize

Brendan back to the countryside to see her

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wedding. Before they died, their only wish was for Karen and Brendan to

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 ties. I never told your mom the details–I didn’t want her to worry

years had been for Karen. She’d kept so much bottled up, and now, just as they’d finally found some peace, the past was knocking at their

night, Brendan told Alessia all about Karen’s time with the Quincys–how, ever since she’d been brought back, she’d been treated like an outsider, constantly criticized, gossiped about, accused of being sly or having a bad temperament, always compared to her younger brother,

her