Chapter 50

Just then, Farah Steele walked over, glanced briefly at Grace with unmasked contempt, and said, “Honestly, Claire, why are you talking to her?” Before Claire could reply, she went on, “This woman has been to jail! She’s taken a woman’s life!”

“Farah, we’re all colleagues. And there are privacy issues to

consider-”

“It isn’t ‘private’ if it’s all over the internet.”

She had a point.

“Why are you defending her, Claire? Grace went to jail for drunken, reckless driving. She killed someone!”

“That’s not fair, Farrah. People make mistakes, accidents happen

Claire had barely started speaking when Farah interrupted her

again. “But the person she killed was Jennifer Atkinson. Do you know who Jennifer Atkinson is? She’s Lily Atkinson’s sister! It was no coincidence that Lily was here. I was wondering why Lily wanted so many of our colleagues to look for a non-existent ring. But it’s all clear now! It was because she was targeting Grace and we all got dragged into it.”

“But didn’t she also apologize and compensate us?” Claire asked. “Farrah, that compensation is half of what many of us make in a

year.”

Farah sputtered. Her mouth turned down and her eyes narrowed. She was clearly not pleased with Claire standing up for Grace.

“I knew you would take her side,” she said. “When I told the

others…”

So it was obvious who had been the one to leak the news of

Grace’s imprisonment. No surprise there. Farrah had never made

any false show of being friendly with Grace.

her on the roadside talking to Sean

Lily. I was like, wait for a second, this isn’t right!? I

were not as they seemed.” She stared at Grace.

you live with yourself. You should’ve stayed in prison. It’s

argued. “That’s enough of

Farrah. You can’t go

employee-”

bribe from Grace or something? Why

but Claire also took a step back. She had, indeed, accepted the jacket

Lily.

mouth, ready to

her to it.

voice interrupted. “The car crash was an accident. Grace didn’t intend to

saw that it was Chase defending

Chase, but he wouldn’t give her the time of day.

“Chase,

you think she’ll like you? Do you

that her ex-boyfriend is Sean Stevens? He’s the heir to the

Stevens Corporation!”

abruptly

assault. “But

clicked her tongue and continued, “You know, I’m thinking he’ll probably vomit in disgust when he thinks about dating Grace in the past.”

at Farah coldly. “Are you

the fact that you were in jail or are you saying that you aren’t Sean’s ex-girlfriend?” Farah retorted proudly. “Why are you

who I dated before. Furthermore, I may be a sanitation worker now but does that mean I can’t

sanitation workers?”

and eyed the room warily. She’d offended many of the people here by bringing the sanitation aspect into things.

succession of

employee in a management position, that does not

profession.”

as some of the other workers

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