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 of what Olivia

agreed with him.

snorted in agreement. “She can stir up trouble anywhere, but when it comes to the Hart family, she better check that high–and–mighty attitude.”

cared so much about Stephanie was because of

must marry Stephanie, calling her the

far as Grace was concerned, none of the Hart girls were

Olivia’s affair, but even more enraged that it was Stéphanie who had declared

had

with Chris’s grandmother demanding that Stephanie be taken back, Grace couldn’t help feeling like there

solutions as she stomped her foot again, making a final decision. “I’m really losing my mind! Where is Olivia

replied with a stiff

the Ashford family when a sharp honk broke through the quiet.

the sound and saw Chris’s Phantom

eyebrow. He hadn’t left

car, a cigarette

him, the kind of presence that made people

him that made it

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