Pampered by my three brothers: the return of the neglected heiress

Chapter 1327: The reality of time

DING!

[From: Grace

I know I told you that I like sunflowers, but I don't. I just said that so I'd know when you'd send me one. I'll consider it a late birthday gift or perhaps an early one.

Thank you for the flowers. They're lovely. I appreciate them. Finally, something I can take home and put in that empty vase I got from someone last year.

P.S. You can dream of me tonight.

Хохо,

Grace] freewebnovel.com

Haines stared at his phone, a thin layer of ice coating his eyes. His jaw tightened as he read the message, clearly oozing with mischief. Every word of it almost made his blood boil.

'I should've known...' he thought, mentally tallying another point in Grace's favor -she'd won this round again.

First, she had deceived him, making him endure an unbearably long drive just to face her direct romantic advances. Then, there were the invitations. And now, this.

As the saying goes: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times?

"I must be a fool," he muttered under his breath, catching Charles's attention. Charles turned to the other side of the back seat, blinking innocently. He quickly noticed the cold look on Haines's face as he stared at his phone.

"Who messaged you to make you look so..." Charles trailed off, stretching his neck to sneak a peek. But before he could, Haines abruptly locked his phone.

"Haines, are

quickly, his

reading other

like you're about to freeze the world over, so I wanted

off, snapping

lately. Not that Haines wasn't always a little strange, but there were these...

and straightened his back. "Haines, I heard you

played in Charles's eyes as he watched Haines like

Charles asked, trying (and failing) to keep his tone casual. Ever since he heard Haines had

he'd been dying to

really interested

to get along well with Haines-aside from Allison and Jessa. Charles had known Haines since childhood, and the only time they were ever apart

other words, Charles was very amused by the idea of Haines

Haines glanced at

scooting closer. "I mean, we're not young anymore. No one would judge you

"Charles."

Charles intoned. "In case you need some encouragement-from a brother, a friend, or a cousin, whichever role I'm needed in-I'm giving it

want another member of this family to marry a

Even if she came from a different family, I'd still support your relationship!" Charles wiggled his eyebrows playfully. "Haines, this is the first time you've shown real interest in a woman! And the first time you didn't break her heart

isn't the first

had kept his first relationship a secret for so long that bringing it

on the family meeting inste I don't think Finn Davis is a bad person, but I'm a little skeptical about his

as others, but they still believed a good in-law was important. If it weren't for Old Mrs. Pierson's warmth and

Pierson disliked Penny, Charles would have