Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 23 The Scarf and the Past

Meryl was shocked to hear Chandler, and her hand holding the spoon paused.

Thinking about her parents' attitude toward her, she lowered her eyes and replied, "No. I can go back by myself."

Meryl didn't get along with her family, and for some reason, she didn't want Chandler to know.

Chandler's gaze lingered on her face for a moment, but he didn't say anything else.

At that moment, the TV in the restaurant suddenly started broadcasting entertainment gossip news.

The volume was too loud, and Meryl instinctively turned her head to look.

The gossip news showed that Dalton and Lydia were being surrounded by reporters outside a room.

With her face buried in her hands, she hid behind Dalton as cameras and flashes swarmed them. At one point, the camera even panned to the massive bed behind them. That was one giant bed. Meryl could also see that there were security guards maintaining order at the scene. She then froze when she noticed the word

"live" at the top right corner of the TV screen.

She thought incredulously, "Are they really still stuck in the hotel?"

Meryl was staring,

then, his phone rang again. As he picked it up and walked

his head, shaking the phone in his hand. "It's too loud.

anything more. She finished the food on her plate, and when she walked out, Chandler was just wrapping up the

asked, "Are you sure you don't need me

time at the Stone Villa. He thought that if he accompanied her back, things might be different. She shook her head and refused

to take care of now. After you get your documents, go back to my

and noted the address he gave. Later, she looked it up on her phone

a bit dazed as she

made her way back to the Stone

was tightly shut. She rang the doorbell twice, and soon, a servant opened the door just a crack

that it was Meryl, the servant was visibly

hummed in response and nodded slightly

She has a headache and is resting in her room.

mused, "Who would have thought that the rightful heiress of the Stone family would be sent to prison for three years of correction? Just look at her, all

servant paused and hurriedly replied, "In the

thanks and made her

she owned was stuffed into a small box in the corner