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 feeling

the party. Holden likes you, he won’t mind if you bring a plus one. Maja, she

have any affections toward Tricia,

turned towards the Pennyfeather family’s old home, where

looked very thin due to her illness,

if she wanted Tricia to have access to that kind of circle, she could only

dignity to ask Maja, and it was good enough to let Tricia

would fall for Tricia, and this would be a chance to find her a

be better for Tricia to find a better support than suffering with her in the

“You’re not mad,

expression on her face, she said softly, “Get in the car

her skirt, and carefully

Rosewood Manor, and it was Maja’s

to go to the old house,

promptly at seven–thirty, and the car

they just watched the streets, but

young and was eating a hot dog by

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