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?

understand what Wendy had done

like a trained dog.

never understood why you treat me this

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

for me."

closer to Lilian, standing right by her

warning. Let me reintroduce myself-I'm no longer the Wendy you used to know. Next time,

you didn't provoke

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

couldn't respond as Wendy turned

the lawn just as a Rolls-Royce Phantom pulled up. Stanley had returned to drop Jessica

suit, exuding his usual aura of elegance and power. Jessica, in a striking red gown,

Walking together, they appeared to be

she 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 slowly

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come home last night. She stayed at Mr. Hawk's private villa, West

didn't return until now."

implication-Jessica and Stanley had spent

Saville Villa, was a place Wendy had never set foot

chest clenched with

a pity. Mr. Hawk doesn't love you. So what if you ruined things with Dr. Whalen this time? For Jessica, Mr. Hawk will undoubtedly get Dr. Ceylan to treat