Secret Admiration: Finding True Love After Prison

Chapter 258 Why?

Back in the ward, Malcolm and Bianca glared at Lydia with disappointment.

"Lydia, what were you thinking? You and Meryl are both my daughters. What you did today has utterly humiliated our family. This is a disgrace. You let me down!" Malcolm's voice. was tight with anger. Malcolm had once defended Lydia with unwavering zeal, but now, the support felt like a slap in the face.

They had just been thrown out of the ward by Chandler.

Lydia's expulsion was one thing-after all, she had caused the trouble.

But for Chandler to throw Malcolm out, too? That was a blow to Malcolm's pride, which he wasn't prepared for.

Malcolm was fuming with frustration, especially since he had hoped Chandler could help Celestial Ventures Group. Now, that was a lost cause.

Lydia's eyes welled up with tears, and she looked genuinely hurt.

"Dad, I don't know what got into me. I'm really sorry. It felt like I was being possessed or something. That wasn't my intention at all."

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front of everyone just now! If you had just admitted it sooner, we wouldn't have been embarrassed." Lydia bit her lip, feeling cornered as her lies unraveled. "I... I must

with disappointment. She

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and her attempt to shift blame were becoming

so let's not push it. Let her rest, and we shouldn't keep her

Lydia messes up, you're always defending her? I don't

protection of

it much before, but now it

over. "I'm not defending anyone! Are you

palpable, and

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outside smoking. Maybe let's just

Bianca left,

in the stairwell, lost in thought

of an argument between Anne and Dante on the other side of a fire door. Dalton wasn't eavesdropping on purpose. He had been there first, and

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