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.

frowned, “Why is Tricia going? I thought she wasn’t feeling

she heard about the party. Holden likes you, he won’t mind if you bring a plus one. Maja, she is your sister after all, she’s been hospitalized for

didn’t have any affections toward Tricia, but agreed anyway.

home, where Tricia was waiting in her

due to her illness,

understood that if she wanted Tricia to have access to that kind of

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

someone there would fall for Tricia, and this would be a chance to

the Pennyfeather family was in a difficult situation now, and it would be better for Tricia to find a better support than suffering with her

held Maja’s hand, “You’re not mad,

had no expression on her face, she said softly, “Get in the car

picked up her skirt, and carefully got in the car,

Rosewood Manor, and it was Maja’s first time riding in it.

Bentley, and because they had to go to the old

party started promptly at seven–thirty, and the car slowly moved along the road.

have much to say, so they just watched the streets, but what she saw

disheveled man caught her eye. He was young and was eating a hot

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