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.”

couldn’t let go of what Olivia had

agreed with him.

can stir up trouble anywhere, but when it comes to the Hart family, she better check that high–and–mighty

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

Chris must marry Stephanie, calling

was concerned, none of the Hart

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

Ashford family had lost

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

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

with a stiff nod. “Long Harbor

out of the Ashford family when a

turned toward the sound and saw Chris’s Phantom parked nearby.

raised an eyebrow. He hadn’t left yet.

a cigarette dangling

command the space around him, the kind of presence that made people stop and

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

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