Chapter 157

A stock clerk pushing a cart interrupted us, “Excuse me, coming through.”

1 tugged Christine back and asked, “What were you saying?”

“Do you think Margaret could be Albert’s biological daughter?” Christine’s eyes sparkled with the thrill of gossip.

I frowned. “That seems a bit far-fetched. Margaret’s even older than Bryant by two years.”

Even if it were an affair, it wouldn’t have started that early, right?

“Why not?” Christine dismissed my doubt with a wave, excitedly diving into high society scandals. “You know how messy these rich people can get. Marrying one, keeping a few mistresses on the side, isn’t that business as usual?”

“But still…” I hesitated, “If Margaret was Albert’s flesh and blood, and considering how much Timothy despised Margaret, why didn’t Albert tell Timothy?”

That way, Timothy would have been kinder to his granddaughter.

at were

Christine paused, finding sense in my words, puzzled. “Yeah, you’re right. If Albert’s daughter, he wouldn’t just sit back and watch Bryant get involved with Margaret. That’s incest, right?”

Christine suddenly said, “No,

our business, anyway.” I poked her forehead playfully and handed her a

divorce papers, Bryar and I would be worlds apart, let alone Albert and Margaret. It wouldn’t matter if they we father and daughter or, just as Christine had bluntly put it, shared the same

its local comfort food, with Christine and me arriving first. When Mark

awkwardness and asked,

tag along

and Christine, Mark hesitated before saying, “He was caught up

knew better. “He went on a blind date.

marriage.

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Chapter 157

of inevitable anger, though not completely surprised. I didn’t expect it to happen

was doomed from

like mine with

would never have dreamed of marrying

front of Mark, I didn’t try

brought up a new topic. “Jane, you represented the

place, but you’ve

jointly-designed?”

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