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

struggled to process what was happening. She couldn't understand what

like a trained dog.

never understood why you treat me this way.

abandoned his beloved daughter, and even tainted the wine he

for me."

stepped closer to

reintroduce myself-I'm no longer the Wendy you used to

you didn't

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

with fear, Lilian couldn't respond as Wendy

lawn just as a Rolls-Royce Phantom pulled up. Stanley had

aura of elegance and power. Jessica, in a

Walking together, they appeared to be

man for her came

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her, Lilian's voice rang out. "Jessica didn't come home last night. She

didn't return until now."

Lilian's implication-Jessica and Stanley had spent the night

had never set foot in. She didn't have

clenched

things with Dr. Whalen this time? For Jessica, Mr.