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.

smirked. "What's wrong? Don't recognize

what was happening. She couldn't understand what Wendy had done to Ted to make him so

like a trained dog.

continued, "I've never understood why you treat me this

his beloved daughter, and even tainted the wine he

for me."

closer to Lilian, standing right by

me reintroduce myself-I'm no longer the Wendy

you

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

Lilian couldn't respond as Wendy turned and

a Rolls-Royce Phantom pulled up. Stanley had

of elegance and power. Jessica, in a

appeared to be

had healed, but the memory of Stanley abandoning her last night to find another man for her came flooding back. The heart she thought had just mended now felt as if it were

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home last night. She stayed at Mr.

didn't return until now."

Lilian's implication-Jessica and Stanley had spent the

Saville Villa, was a place Wendy had never set foot in. She

clenched with

you ruined things with Dr.