She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 818:

“Mina…” he stammered, clearly flustered by Freya’s unexpected return. Would her daughter misconstrue the situation? He had permitted their entry solely because circumstances had forced his hand.

Freya glanced upward and proceeded forward with Ethel beside her. “Are you occupied with something important?”

From their current position, the living room remained obscured from view.

“Not particularly,” Hugh confessed, still uncertain about Cheryl and Vivien’s purpose for seeking him out. “Cheryl and Vivien mentioned needing to discuss something with me. Considering the heavy snowfall outside, I invited them inside to continue our conversation.”

Freya paused, contemplating this explanation.

The guards had explicitly stated that Hugh initially refused entry.

Those loyal men would never fabricate stories to her, which meant Hugh had ultimately failed to deter the women and now deliberately omitted mentioning his resistance.

Freya acknowledged with

surface. “You aren’t upset by this arrangement,

dine nor lodge here overnight,” Freya responded with

Hugh replied, somewhat taken aback by her tone. For reasons he couldn’t

myself. There’s no need for such cautious navigation around us. You carry no outstanding debt to either

𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝑒𝓍𝓉

that had she occupied her parents’ position years ago, she might not have navigated

own father’s influence. Both parents harbored genuine affections elsewhere but found themselves bound

accomplishments within those constraints deserved

Freya had flourished throughout their childhood without veering

emotions grew increasingly complex as

warmly, enfolding the father who had consistently worried

rescued her mother from death’s unyielding grasp when even Jacob

posture stiffened momentarily before his eyes glistened with moisture,