In the Lap of Luxury by Unsweetened Chestnuts

Chapter 77 I Can Just Fight Back

Grace giggled with a hand on her mouth and glanced at Caleb. “Nothing. We weren’t talking about you at all.”

“You’d better not be trash–talking me,” Lydia warned.

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Caleb, who was usually a chatterbox, suddenly stopped talking. “I’m going out for some fresh air,” he said, putting on a distant attitude in front of Lydia.

When he walked outside, his smile gave way to a cold glare the moment he saw Benjamin standing there. Blocking the doorway, he said loudly, “You’re not welcome here.”

Benjamin gestured for Larry to hand Caleb a fruit basket. “Please give this to her.”

“Get out of here with that!” Caleb waved his hands dismissively. “Our Gracie doesn’t need shit like this from you.”

“Is she awake?” Benjamin didn’t really take Caleb seriously. A handsome guy with no substance like him wasn’t Grace’s type at all. But with Xander … Benjamin smelled a threat.

“She’s awake, and she’s fine. Now leave.” Lydia spoke up from behind Caleb and moved to block the doorway with him, forming a perfect blockade.

“Please take care of her, then,” Benjamin said, then left.

This angered Caleb so much that he yelled at his retreating figure, “We’re taking care of Gracie voluntarily, okay? You didn’t need to ask! Jerk!”

tugged on Caleb’s sleeve and whispered, “Pipe down. Grace needs to

answering, “You’re

met, they suddenly turned around

visited Grace and handed her a briefcase. “Xander asked me to give

Yvonne paying someone with money. She gripped them so tightly that

but I didn’t expect her to be this cruel. Thank goodness you weren’t seriously hurt,”

hand instead and

with me, I’ll just

days later, when Grace left Pamore Airport’s international arrivals terminal,

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had a brush with death, Ms. Lewis. Why didn’t you stay in the hospital for a little

such a perfect opportunity to kill this

casually, making Yvonne’s smile freeze. Had

traces. Even the driver had gone into hiding in a whole

cue, a group of reporters swarmed them and almost poked Yvonne’s

trending online for that article about you hiring a hitman. What are

“Is it true?”

you return because the police asked you to? Are

become a murderer after a few hours on a flight. She looked up

he asked,

talking nonsense, Benjamin.” Yvonne tried her best to remain calm, then yelled, ” Which news outlet are

a police car stopped, and two policemen