The Barrister's Love in Town

Chapter 54 Abduction Plan

Grace arrived at Global Entertainment with dark circles under her eyes. The Internet was laughing at her broken dreams. She felt like she had become the whole world’s laughingstock. Even when the janitor only looked at her for one second longer, she thought the janitor was mocking her. “What are you looking at? Get back to work!” Grace hissed like a snake.

The janitor quickly got back to work lest she incurred any of Grace’s wrath. Once Grace was gone, the janitor and her colleague started gossiping. “Can’t believe her attitude. I’d rather stay at home if I were her. I mean, Elias flat out rejected her on national TV. What an embarrassment.”

“Yeah. She tells everyone she’s Elias’ wife, but he shot it down fast. Now everyone knows they’re just colleagues. What a joke.”

Grace walked to her boss’ office. She was in no mood to work, but her manager told her to come. After she knocked on the door, he told her to come in. She did and said, “You called, Mr. Worcester?”

“Sit

Grace took a seat in front of the desk, looking at the man before her.

“Guess this is it for your relationship with Mr. Winters, but he did tell me you’re still going to receive the best the company has to offer. We invested in a few big movies, and he’s reserved the female lead roles for you. He even signed a few endorsements for top-tier luxury brands for you.”

Grace clutched the hem of her skirt. She knew that Elias was just trying to compensate for what he did, but this wasn’t what she wanted. Career wasn’t what she had in mind. She just wanted to be with Elias. She wanted to be his wife; someone all the other ladies envied.

Before Phineas could finish speaking, Grace stood up. “Mr. Worcester, tell him I don’t need these. He knows full well what I want.” She left without saying a word, but she was as white as a sheet and her heart was thumping furiously. Through gritted teeth, she hissed, “I won’t give up on you just like this. You will be mine. Mine.”

streamed down her cheeks and humiliation filled her heart. Is he avoiding me? Is he going

on?

leaning in his chair. He had a cigarette between his lips, and tendrils of smoke obscured his face. He looked at his vibrating phone, but he wasn’t going to pick it up. Instead of giving Grace any hope at

“Yes, sir.”

and back out of her life, but he would

clock out. I’m making fish tonight. I’ve promised Aiden for a while now. She took her bag, turned the lights off, and left the oflice. Just as she did, she ran into

Did

to go home and make dinner now. Aiden’s been wanting some fish

can be a hassle,

do it. I prepped it before I came to work. It’s sitting in the chiller right now. I just need to cook it a bit. She didn’t want to bother Simon anymore, especially not

insist. He teased, “Are you avoiding me? You won’t even let

you. You deserve some private hours. I’ll cook for you though, someday. I’m not as good as you are, but I think

looking forward to it. Simon

waved him goodbye and

off, his

tailing her the moment she left the firm, and the driver was none other than Grace. She tried looking for Amanda in Lotus Waterfront, but she had moved, so Grace staked out the firm to find out where she was living.

the car, a boy came out of the villa. It was the same boy she had seen. Amanda held the boy in her arms and kissed

on the passenger seat was a paternity test result. A gust of wind blew into the car, flipping. the result until the last page, where it