In the Lap of Luxury by Unsweetened Chestnuts

Chapter 58 Drop Your Nice Act

“Frederick didn’t mean it. He misunderstood you, so stop arguing with him.” The frustration was overwhelming for Benjamin, who had chased after Grace and pulled at her arm.

Grace snatched her arm away. “How nice of you to speak for your friend, Mr. Hawkins. What right do you have to tell me to stop?”

Benjamin glanced at Zoey and Emily behind Grace, both of whom were giving him hostile looks.

“Can’t you be a bigger person and let us talk nicely as friends?”

A smile slowly formed on Grace’s lips, her narrowing eyes devoid of emotion. “You’re an ex who is dead to me, not some friend.”

While Benjamin had heard such a rejection before, he still couldn’t deal with it calmly.

He said curtly, “The apology statement will be released tomorrow morning. I will make him take down the post later.”

“Stop being hypocritical. They’re treating me like this because you allowed them to, didn’t you?”

“Me?” Benjamin frowned deeply, obviously disagreeing with her words.

Grace’s surly expression was filled with disappointment, her eyes fixed on him.

“It was your repeated inaction that made them think I’m a pushover who they can do

whatever they want with. Why are you pretending to be a nice person now?

“Susan and Celia’s apparent contempt toward me is nothing compared to Frederick’s blatant slander. Your hypocrisy makes me disgusted.”

shocked to hear this. He had never cared about Grace’s situation back when she had lived with

simply assumed everything was just as peaceful as it seemed on

distance from her. They didn’t have children, something Susan

about. Yet not once had he mentioned

badly about Grace in front of him, but he had never taken them seriously, and that

felt incredibly ashamed of

faded. “Even without your interference, I have many ways

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Emily’s arm and said, “What songs do you want to

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shook her head in response. “He’s not worth ruining the

such trivial matters? We should be having

right. We’re not leaving until we get

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raised an eyebrow upon realizing

she couldn’t break their promise. However, she .had to find out how

left promptly. As soon as she arrived in