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Chapter 40 Apologize or Say Goodbye to Your Allowance

Lily replied, “Yvonne; you clearly framed me, what gives you the right to act like the victim? You rabid dogs really do love biting people at random, huh?”

Ivan nearly choked from laughing at that.

He couldn’t help chiming in, “Ignoring your symptoms isn’t going to cure anything. If you’ve got rabies, better go get your shots! Or yank out those dog teeth before you bite anyone else!”

“You wench!”

The moment Lily called her a rabid dog–and Ivan actually laughed at her–Yvonne lost it.

She didn’t dare lash out at Ivan, so all her fury landed squarely on Lily.

She raised her hand and swung hard at Lily’s face. “You tried to ruin me! I won’t let you off!”

But Lily wasn’t about to stand there and take it.

Back when she loved John with her whole heart, she’d tolerated Yvonne’s tantrums just because of that love.

But now, Yvonne was nothing.

She lifted a hand to catch Yvonne’s wrist and planned to slap her right back.

But John moved faster.

He caught Yvonne’s wrist mid–air, his voice sharp as a blade. “Enough! Yvonne, you did try to frame Lily. Apologize to her!”

“Ugh…”

had she failed to land a hit, now she was being forced to apologize–Yvonne was so humiliated

there was no way she could stand being embarrassed like this in front of

to cry her way out and run, but John’s grip was like a steel clamp–she

again, colder than ice, “If you

fat and fast, burning

as beneath her. But she was used to blowing through money like water,

her teeth, she finally muttered, “Lily,

what? I can’t

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even if she said nothing, Yvonne, the parasite she was, would never stop coming after her. So why let this slide like

that, Yvonne trembled with

she still shouted through sobs, “I’m sorry! I shouldn’t have

“Yvonne, don’t cry.”

Yvonne, she turned to John. “John, don’t be too hard on Yvonne,. She’s

planned on

And you–what’s your deal? Is it your eyes or your mouth that’s broken? You were right there. You saw everything. So when Yvonne dragged Lily through the mud, you just stood there looking all sad and helpless, playing the victim while egging her on? Come on. Let’s be real. You and Yvonne were in it together. Don’t you think you owe Lily an apology too? For always pretending you’re

drained from

she had accidentally learned that Simon

given that girl a finely crafted marble pendant, with the initial of his name engraved

she and Lily had both

performance, they’d been changing clothes together,

in the dressing room. Elsa had snuck over to check it and confirmed the initial

only she and Lily had changed in that room. She