Forsaken Daughter Pampered by Top Hier

Chapter 26

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Seeing the necklace clutched in her hand only made her frustration spike. She stomped her foot, irritated.

Right then, the butler appeared, stepping into the tension. “Mrs. Ashford.”

Grace sighed, a heavy, defeated sound. “What’s she being so stubborn for? Who else would want her besides Chris?”

If she broke off the engagement, Stephanie’s reputation would tank. No prestigious family in Long Harbor would touch her

after that.

And the Hart family… Grace knew them too well.

If Stephanie lost Chris, they’d chew her up and spit her out without a second thought.

Grace couldn’t wrap her head around it. ‘How could Stephanie just reject someone like Chris?‘

The butler glanced at Stephanie. “She’s still young. She just can’t swallow her pride when it comes to Olivia.”

butler thought Stephanie was just acting out because she couldn’t let go

with him.

up trouble anywhere, but when it comes to the Hart family, she better check

reason Grace cared so much about Stephanie was because of Chris’s grandmother.

Chris must marry Stephanie, calling her the

of the Hart girls were worth her time.

affair, but even more enraged that it was Stéphanie

had lost face.

grandmother demanding that Stephanie be taken back, Grace couldn’t help feeling

her foot again, making

with a stiff nod. “Long Harbor International

the Ashford family when a

and

an eyebrow. He

of the car, a cigarette dangling from his fingers.

around him, the kind of presence that made people stop

him that made it clear: he wasn’t someone you could just walk

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