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

come when 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 years with little chance to get out, and I’m busy, just let her

have any affections toward Tricia, but agreed

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

very thin due to her illness, it was heartbreaking to

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

to lower her dignity to

be a chance to find her a good

for Tricia to find a better support than suffering with her in the Pennyfeather family. “Maja, I’m sorry, I was

Maja’s hand, “You’re not

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

skirt, and

was the car Holden left at Rosewood Manor, and

go to the old house, it wasn’t suitable to drive

promptly at seven–thirty, and the car

to say, so they just watched the streets, but what she saw made her

eye. He was young and was eating a hot dog by the roadside.

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