She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 321:

Surely, Hugh reasoned, anyone would respect his position and seek compromise rather than dismissal.

Vivien cast a confident glance his way before pushing open the meeting room door, already savoring Freya’s imminent humiliation. As the door swung wide, Freya lifted her gaze from the contract she’d been reviewing.

Hugh sought to identify who had challenged Vivien’s position, while Freya intended to discover who had permitted Vivien’s infiltration into the company’s ranks.

Vivien made her entrance first, her eyes fixed on Freya, brimming with disdain she could scarcely hide.

She cracked the door open and called out to Hugh, “Dad, it’s her.” No sooner had she uttered the words than Hugh appeared in the doorway.

His eyes met Freya’s, and in that moment, his thoughts spiraled. What should he do now?

How could it be Freya? What had Vivien done to provoke her?

cut through his thoughts, her fingers tightening around the edge of the contract, though

respond, but

cold detachment that

undercurrents, Vivien chimed in, “Yes, that’s

role does Mr. Garza play at Briggs

washing over him that Mina harbored deep-seated animosity. “My last name is Briggs, not Garza,” he declared, his voice edged with panic, dominated by the single thought that her daughter was

discerned that Freya’s deliberate reference to “Mr. Garza” signaled her intent to cut

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course of action—respond to her queries succinctly, careful not to

recognize my father?” Vivien was dumbfounded, though she moderated her voice to sound less confrontational in Hugh’s presence. “He’s

in Freya, yet she masked her emotions adeptly. “Is

to address me as Mr. Briggs for the time being,” Hugh explained, perceptive of Freya’s minute

a shade of

her overstep, she stammered, “Okay,

me if he’s your father; lacking