Forsaken Daughter Pampered by Top Hier

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Stephanie had planned to take Sebastian to the hotel, but instead, he had her pinned against his side. She couldn’t figure out how to tell Elliot where to drive.

By the time Sebastian finally let go of her, they were already pulling into the parking garage at Cloudridge Valley.

She was caught off guard. “You know 1 live here?” she asked, glancing at him.

She’d used his card yesterday, which must’ve given away her details, and now here he was.

Stephanie figured he’d probably done some digging into her life over the last three years.

Elliot, still behind the wheel, spoke up. “It’s easy for him to find out anything. It’s just that you’ve kept it so well hidden all this time. We never knew you’d move to another country.”

Stephanie’s nerves flared, and she didn’t know how to respond.

Elliot added, “You even found your real family… Well… anyway, he’s really pissed!”

The last part, “really pissed,” made her stomach drop.

She quickly glanced at Sebastian, who was already standing outside the car. Without wasting a second, she jumped out.

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The elevator ride was silent, tension thick in the air. They headed straight for her place.

As she was about to grab slippers for Sebastian, she opened the shoe cabinet. There, among her own slippers, was a pair of men’s slippers that clearly had been worn.

A cold shiver ran down her spine. She hurriedly grabbed a brand–new pair she hadn’t worn yet, offering them to Sebastian.

“Why don’t you wear these for now?” she said, holding out a pair of pink slippers with little rabbit designs.

eyes narrowed slightly, his cold energy ensifying.

how to serve others?” he

was taken aback. She froze, bitterness suddenly filling her chest.

stood up straight and gave him a pitiful look.

were too small

into the apartment and looked around, his gaze growing darker

family is pretty well–known in Long

made Stephanie tense up. She pouted,

from the Hart family,”

stared at her.

shrugged, then admitted, “I bought it with

twitched. Things were worse

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your money, something in his key demeanor seemed to soften–post

over to the couch, towed his cost over the

scanning the room. Then he asked, “Why didn’t

big enough it’s 1,500 square feet,

him, it was tiny. Back in Fiorenza, even her smallest

family, their manor was so big she couldn’t finish

his eyes narrowing,

had a sharp edge to

a meter away from

her into

gasped, her voice shaky,

he spoke

in her eyes. Her

knew exactly what that meant.

out without a word, right in the middle of the chaos within the Giovanni

she physically left, there was a saying circulating in Fiorenza’s high society: An adopted daughter’s never truly

that was Stephanie they were talking

that when everything fell apart for Mr. Giovanni, and Sebastian was at his lowest, she

question back on him. “The Casalini family, how are they

years, she had kept a close watch on everything

held her fate in

hadn’t been