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.”

acting out because she couldn’t let go of what Olivia had done to her.

with

up trouble anywhere, but when it comes

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

marry

Grace was concerned, none of the Hart girls were worth

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

had lost face. Dignity?

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

foot again, making a final decision. “I’m really losing my

stiff

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

and saw Chris’s Phantom parked nearby.

raised an eyebrow. He

of the car, a cigarette dangling

to command the space around him, the kind of presence that

made it

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