Chapter 24
Whitney remained the very picture of composure amid the whispers and stares.
She waited for the murmurs to die down and then spoke with a cool detachment, “A bit carried away? If I remember correctly, wasn’t it you who was caught in the scandal of the decade just a few days ago, Yvonne?”
Yvonne’s face turned as stiff as a board.
The socialites and ladies gathered around suddenly fell silent, recalling the recent gossip.
Yvonne, struggling to contain her fury, tried to explain in a gentle voice, “Whitney, those rumors were false, and they’ve been debunked…”
“Oh, have they? Last I heard, my father doesn’t even want to speak to you. What’s the real story?”
Whitney’s smile was cool and detached. Without waiting for a reply, she turned and walked away.
The crowd dispersed awkwardly, with Monica stamping her foot in frustration. “Mom! She humiliated you like that, and you’re just going to let it go? Look at her, so smug and self–satisfied!”
A deep loathing simmered in Yvonne’s eyes. “Patience, darling. After tonight, she won’t have the gall to be so arrogant anymore.”
The charity auction was set to begin at nine, yet it was only seven. Whitney moved through the venue while Yvonne and her daughter had yet to reappear.
Whitney had a hunch that something was amiss; they would not simply let her off the hook.
Passing by the kitchen, Whitney caught the scent of something medicinal. She frowned, seeing the steaming pot on the stove, and recognized the ingredients for a traditional tonic, which sparked a cold sneer at the corner of her lips as she remembered Monica’s feigned miscarriage.
“Who is making this remedy? Is someone in the household unwell?” She asked a servant, feigning ignorance.
The servant hardly paid her any regard and laughed without responding.
Whitney left the kitchen, suspicions confirmed about Monica’s condition. It was clear that Monica barely had the capability to bear a child anymore, and the situation had gotten so severe that she even had to take
medicine.
Suddenly, the sound of barking dogs and crying interrupted the quiet. Yvonne’s shrill voice reached her. “Whitney! Look at what your dogs have done–it’s bitten someone!”
Whitney’s brows knitted together, and she hurried outside.
Yvonne had her servants subdue Whitney’s two dogs and approached her with a veneer of civility. “These dogs have been quite unruly lately. Just now, they nearly bit a little guest. Whitney, you are their owner; you would be responsible if they actually hurt someone. I’m going to have them taken away. Is that alright?”
Whitney scrutinized the whimpering little girl and then her agitated dogs, who communicated through their eyes that they had not bitten anyone.
She knew her dogs were intelligent creatures. Reluctantly, given the circumstances, Whitney agreed. “Where will you take them?”
“To the old lodge by the back hill,” Yvonne said, watching her intently.
harm her dogs, Whitney insisted, “I want to go
of sight, a sinister smile played at the corners of her lips. The little wretch had
old lodge, Whitney crouched down to her dogs.
to stand up, the servants suddenly hoisted her up and, along with the
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in the
Whitney demanded, her eyes flashing with
servants threw a contract in front of her. “Sorry, Whitney, but the madam wants you to sign this deed of transfer as a wedding gift to
was a contract for
to her grandfather, and she knew that even if the Valentine family had seized control, a transfer
servant pressed her hand to sign. Then they left,
and her dogs remained
narrow window at the cold moon casting its silvery light, Whitney felt a growing
with her dogs? The night’s odd
and she sensed that Yvonne’s
could she be
to her innocent
The auction would start at
clenched, and
the door crashed
rushed in, dragging her dogs
you doing? What will you do to
one servant said with lewd intent, caressing her face. “After tonight, I might
you forgotten she might be insane? Watch
quickly
planning? To kill her dogs?
paced the room, a thought struck her–the servant’s mention of “she
vicious plan. Whitney’s lips curled into a cold smile–she
called
had just arrived at the banquet
F F
the back hill and fumed, “They
taut with urgency, “Listen, I need you to
the unusual coldness in her eyes and leaned in as Whitney instructed, “There’s a medicine pot
After rescuing Whitney from the basement, she ground her teeth in anger. “Those evil women, to think
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her eyes ablaze with intensity. Yvonne was after her dogs, and she had to
from behind, addressing her respectfully, “Madam, is there
around to see the driver who had been assigned to her these past days. She guessed eagerly, “Did
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