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.

going? I thought she

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

have any affections toward Tricia, but agreed anyway.

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

due to her illness, it was heartbreaking to

She probably understood that if she wanted Tricia to

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

would fall for Tricia, and this would be a

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, I

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

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

and carefully got in the car,

at Rosewood Manor, and

Bentley, and because they had to go to the old house, it wasn’t

started promptly at seven–thirty, and the car slowly moved

have much to say, so they just watched

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

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