Chapter 118

Maria handed her an ice pack. After an hour of icing, the swelling still throbbed painfully, especially when she tried to slip into her heels- it felt like pinpricks.

Cold sweat drenched her forehead quickly, but she forced herself to continue putting on makeup.

Maria, seeing her like this, couldn’t bear it.

“Ms. Pennyfeather, why don’t I call Holden and have you go another day?”

“I have to go”

The main purpose of this party was to please Grandpa Holden. He had been so good to her, and she had already missed his pickup- she couldn’t disappoint him again on such an important occasion. After finishing her makeup, she put on the bracelet Holden had given her. Other than that, she didn’t wear any other jewelry.

But she was naturally elegant, and with this waist–accentuating dress, the emerald bracelet on her wrist made her look even more charming.

Once she was ready. Maja stopped dawdling and got in the car.

Not long after the car started, she got a call from Neil, asking her to swing by the Pennyfeather family’s old home to pick up Tricia.

I thought she wasn’t

mind if you bring a plus one. Maja, she is your sister after all,

any affections toward Tricia,

the Pennyfeather family’s old home, where Tricia was waiting in

thin due to her illness, it

wanted Tricia to have access to that kind

she wasn’t willing to lower her dignity to ask Maja, and it was good

would be a chance to find her a good husband. It wasn’t impossible.

in a difficult situation now, and it would be better for Tricia to find a better support than suffering with her in the Pennyfeather family. “Maja, I’m sorry,

held Maja’s hand, “You’re not mad, are

on her face, she said softly, “Get in the car first, or we’ll be late!

picked up her skirt, and carefully got in the

at Rosewood Manor, and it was

because they had to go to the

seven–thirty, and the car slowly moved

say, so they just watched the streets, but

was young and was

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