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.”

out because she couldn’t let go

agreed with him.

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

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

had insisted that Chris must marry Stephanie,

as Grace was concerned, none of

boiled over. She was furious about Chris and Olivia’s affair, but even more enraged that it was Stéphanie who had declared the cancellation

family had

Chris’s grandmother demanding that Stephanie be taken back, Grace couldn’t help feeling like there was no

as she stomped her foot again, making a final decision.

replied with a stiff nod. “Long Harbor

just stepped out of the Ashford family when a sharp honk broke

toward the sound and

an eyebrow. He hadn’t left

the car, a cigarette

space around him, the kind of presence

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

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