The Heartbreak Prescription by Glazed Snow

My Dad Please Come 18

Chapter 18

Wendy had been standing there for who knew how long, her clear, bright eyes silently observing Lilian's panic and embarrassment.

Lilian froze on the spot.

Ted quickly hurried over to Wendy, bending at the waist with a servile smile. "Ms. Crone."

Wendy pulled out a pen and casually tossed it into the outdoor pool. "Dr. Whalen, I dropped my pen."

"Ms. Crone, I'll retrieve it for you immediately!"

Ted dashed outside, not caring about the chilly late-autumn water. Without hesitation, he jumped straight into the pool.

Lilian walked over, staring at the scene in disbelief.

Moments later, Ted surfaced, dripping wet, holding the pen in his hand like a

prized treasure. He looked at Wendy with an

ingratiating smile. "Ms. Crone, I've got your pen!"

Lilian watched Wendy as if looking at something otherworldly.

"What's wrong? Don't recognize

understand what Wendy had done to Ted to make him so

like a trained dog.

why you treat me this

company, abandoned his beloved daughter, and even tainted the wine he cherished most

for me."

that, Wendy stepped closer to Lilian,

warning. Let me reintroduce myself-I'm no longer the Wendy you

you

eyes now carried a coldness devoid of warmth. They were dark, deep, and foreboding, like a dangerous, mysterious abyss

Lilian couldn't respond as Wendy turned

Wendy stepped onto the lawn just as a Rolls-Royce Phantom pulled up. Stanley had

aura of elegance

appeared to

of Stanley abandoning her last night to find another man for her came flooding back. The heart she thought had just

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"Jessica didn't come home last night. She stayed at Mr.

didn't return until now."

Stanley had spent

was a place Wendy had never set

chest clenched

chuckled. "Wendy, it's such a pity. Mr. Hawk doesn't love you. So what if you ruined things with