Celestial Queen: Revenge Is Sweet When You’re A Zillionaire Heiress

Chapter 747:

“I’ll have Bart send a team to discreetly protect your parents. Regarding the drug, we’ll intensify our search for the one concealing it.”

Harlee gave a gentle nod, her head bowed in contemplation.

After a while, she raised her eyes to Rhys and said, “Ree, you know, while you were discussing with my dad, I had a meal that my mom prepared especially for me. It was surprising. My mom, who never cooked, learned just for me and even injured her hands in the process.”

“Before coming back to the Sanderson family, I had braced myself to keep them at arm’s length, expecting nothing more than obligatory kindness or apologies for the years lost.”

Years with the emotionally distant Gill family had tempered Harlee’s expectations of kindness from the family she hadn’t known for nearly two decades. Thus, even as she recognized the Sanderson family’s kindness, she maintained a distance, viewing them merely as acquaintances linked by blood, not as loved ones.

Yet, she hadn’t foreseen the Sanderson family’s wholehearted acceptance and affection, nor her mother’s efforts to repair their bond by stepping into the kitchen—a place once unfamiliar to her.

Rhys clasped her hands in his.

Harlee paused and then looked up to meet his gaze once more.

closer, his

“Lee, are you happy?”

a moment’s hesitation, Harlee

I’ve ever

in

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want to waste this love. I want to cherish them properly, just like… I want to learn to cherish you. Ree, will you help me protect

when Harlee confessed her love, his voice

“I… I will.”

caught off guard by the gentle kiss, soon responded by placing his hand behind Harlee’s head, kissing her deeply and savoring the sweetness of

evening, a noticeable tension hung in the air of the Sanderson residence’s

that moment, Lonnie, Brenton, Fleming, and

the right of Lonnie, showed signs of

allow Harlee to stay at

Lonnie exhaled deeply.