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.

I saw her on the roadside talking to

I was like, wait for a second, this

were not as they seemed.” She

yourself. You should’ve

up,” Claire argued. “That’s enough of that

of your business, Farrah. You can’t

employee-”

your receive a bribe from Grace or something?

mocked her, but Claire also took a step back. She had, indeed, accepted

Lily.

mouth, ready to defend

her to it.

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

was

in Chase, but he wouldn’t give her the time of day. The fact that he was defending Grace instead of taking Farah’s side, was only

expression turned uglier. “Chase, what’s the

Do you think

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

Stevens Corporation!”

face abruptly flushed

continued her vicious assault. “But when

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

at Farah coldly. “Are

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

business who I dated before. Furthermore, I may be a

sanitation workers?”

of the people here by bringing the sanitation aspect into

a succession of

management position, that does not mean

profession.”

words stuck in her throat as some of the

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