She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 819:

With the atmosphere considerably lightened, Hugh gestured toward the living room. “Since you’ve returned, please join our discussion. They arrived recently, and I remain unaware of their purpose here.”

Initially, Freya hesitated, feeling disconnected from whatever business awaited them.

But Ethel tugged persistently at her sleeve. “Please accompany us—let’s face this together!”

When Cheryl and Vivien caught sight of Freya entering the room, their bodies visibly tensed, a fleeting shadow of disquiet darkening their carefully composed expressions.

Cheryl believed that if Freya hadn’t suddenly returned back then, her relationship with Hugh might not have ended.

“Hi, we meet again,” Vivien greeted Freya and Ethel, her voice far calmer than the smug tone she’d used earlier.

Freya and Ethel gave the slightest of nods in return, cold and clipped.

herself baffled at how Freya—just a woman in her twenties—could radiate such effortless authority, even more than Hugh himself. Whenever Freya was around, Cheryl felt completely exposed, unable to mask a single thought or emotion. And today was no

anything to eat yet?” Cheryl asked, trying to shift the focus

her sister wasn’t one for chit-chat. “We’re at home, and we’ll eat when we feel like it.

a flush of awkwardness rise in her

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to the heart of it. “It’s getting

had been several months since their

crossed paths with either Cheryl or Vivien again. They also hadn’t the faintest idea what Hugh had talked about with them after they’d left on Cheryl’s birthday. But judging by the tension in the room now, it seemed

in private?” Cheryl asked cautiously, clearly still rattled from her last confrontation with Freya. “I’d like to talk about where

from her seat, ready to walk out. But Hugh stopped her cold with a firm

faltered, visibly

glance Freya’s way,

the elite image she’d worked so hard to maintain. By all logic, she should’ve loathed her. But at this point, she couldn’t even summon