Chapter 68

She had constantly tried to convince herself that Neil wasn’t showing favoritism and that he had been supportive of her since her mother’s passing.

However, the kindness he extended to her paled in comparison to the adoration he showered on Cristina’s kids.

The fact that she was still burdened with the stress of buying a house while Neil readily gifted Glenn Pennyfeather a multimillion-dollar mansion seemed absurd to Maja. Soon enough, Neil

and Cristina noticed her presence.

Cristina furrowed her eyebrows. “What are you doing here?”

Neil also turned to Maja, noticing a real estate agent in the same uniform standing beside her, feeling a twinge of embarrassment.

‘Maja, are you looking for a house?”

Disappointment surged within Maja, but her face remained impassive, “Yes, my apartment was burgled, so I’m looking for a safer place.”

Neil hesitated for a moment, guilt gnawing at him as he recalled Maja living on her own all these years.

“Well…”

His words were abruptly interrupted by Cristina.

in front of your father. I heard that Holden got you a wedding house worth tens of millions. If you truly have nowhere to go, why don’t you just move there? It would bring you closer to lan. You two are married,

“Ms. Perkins.”

shot Cristina a cold,

victim in front of my father, it’s none of your business. He can gift a mansion worth millions to someone else’s son. Are you going to stop him from

taken aback by Maja’s verbal

felt Maja was

just being herself, don’t take it to heart. Which one do you like? I’ll

wanted to use the money to compensate for his guilt towards

smiled faintly, lowering her head, “No need, you and Ms. Perkins carry on.

in the same

helpless expression

anyway. If it wasn’t

moved out because I didn’t want to live under the same roof as him. Now that he’s moving in here, I’ve decided to look elsewhere. Do you

going to

beautiful eyes were cold and indifferent. She grabbed

fragile peace they had maintained

her hand covering

before if you laid a hand on me again, I wouldn’t be so

her words fully sank in,

was trembling. As her father, Maja knew she couldn’t retaliate, but from the moment he raised his hand, her heart ached uncontrollably. Despite anticipating this, it still

The disappointment was etched all over his face as he looked

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