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.

understand,” Freya acknowledged

to the surface. “You aren’t upset by

they neither dine nor lodge here overnight,” Freya responded with newfound

somewhat taken aback by her tone. For reasons he couldn’t quite articulate, he sensed that

myself. There’s no need for such cautious navigation around us. You carry

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

her mother couldn’t resist her own father’s influence. Both parents harbored genuine affections elsewhere but

accomplishments within those constraints

their childhood without veering toward negative

increasingly complex as

enfolding the father who had consistently worried

medical studies from an early age, might she have rescued her mother from death’s unyielding grasp when even Jacob stood helpless? Yet reality afforded no place for “what ifs.” Time refused to halt or reverse its course for anyone’s

before his eyes glistened with moisture,