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.”

out because she couldn’t

agreed with

agreement. “She can stir up trouble anywhere, but when it comes

cared so much about Stephanie was because of

marry Stephanie, calling her the family’s lucky star.

Grace was concerned, none of the Hart girls were worth her time.

She was furious about Chris and Olivia’s affair, but even more enraged that it was Stéphanie who had

Ashford family had lost face. Dignity?

Stephanie be taken back, Grace couldn’t help feeling like there was no way to fix

her foot again, making a final

a stiff

of the Ashford family when a

and saw Chris’s Phantom

an eyebrow. He hadn’t left

the car, a cigarette dangling from

him, the kind of presence that made people

effortless, aloof elegance to him that made it clear: he wasn’t someone you could just walk up to.

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