Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 24 Confrontation at Stone Villa

Meryl shot Lydia a cold glance. "This is my home. It's perfectly normal for me to be here."

Lydia's expression froze as soon as she noticed the scarf Meryl was holding.

Lydia, of course, knew that scarf belonged to Dalton. Meryl had kept it like a treasure for the last ten years.

"Are you planning to apologize to Dalton with that? Are you trying to win him back?" Lydia asked.

Meryl didn't want to get caught up in too much back-and-forth, so she replied softly, "You're reading too much into it. I never planned on that."

"You've probably seen the news, haven't you?" Lydia asked out of the blue.

The news about her and Dalton from that morning must have caused quite a stir by now.

The paparazzi were hired by Lydia herself. Her original plan was to take the photos they snapped and cry to Dalton, saying their affair was about to be exposed.

Obviously, she had no real intention of exposing it. She was just putting on a show in front of Dalton.

Dalton would rush home to plead with his mother to switch his fiancée to her, hoping to keep the

if the scandal got out, the Aniston family would also be thrust into the spotlight, facing far more severe consequences than

despite all her careful planning, something had gone. wrong. The paparazzi turned out

when she stepped out of the hotel room this morning and was confronted by

it to the

was aware of Lydia and Dalton's fling and that she had snagged

stance was, but rumors were that Galaxy Holdings Group's stock price had plummeted at the

have been solved with a few intimate photos got blown wide open by the reporters, leaving

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who had called

must have seen Dalton protecting me in front of the camera, right? He only cares about me." Lydia pulled herself together, her gaze dripping

she stared at Meryl. "Do you really think Dalton would give you

waste any more breath on

all yours. I couldn't care less." With that, she

utterly indifferent when Dalton was

the scarf for?

in her hand and said, "I was planning to throw it away." With that, she casually tossed it