The Heartbreak Prescription by Glazed Snow

Chapter 704

Horace watched Brittany's retreating figure, noticing the way she swayed her hips with a teasing grace that was impossible to ignore. The sight was maddening enough to make him laugh bitterly.

Ida raised her hand as if to wipe the corner of Horace's mouth. "Are you alright?"

But before her hand could reach him, Horace stepped back sharply "I'm going home first."

With that, he turned and left.

Ida's hand froze midair. Alene now, she dropped all pretenses. Herexpression twisted into one of bitter resentment and cold malice.

She hated Brittany.

Ida was the daughter of the Larson family's driver. Years ago, her father had died saving Horace's father, and her mother died soon after.

Because Horace felt indebted to Ida, he had always looked after her and they had practically grown up together.

Ida had loved Horace deeply, believing she would one day marry him and become Mrs. Larson.

But then the Larson and Brewer families suddenly arranged an alliance through marriage, and Horace married Brittany instead.

Ida had tried to convince herself that Brittany was just a pawn in a grand alliance, doomed to a lonely life, but nothing could have been further from the truth.

was a temptress. From the moment she married Horace, she clung to him like

marriage, Ida had once stood outside Horace's

desk, surrounded by stacks of paperwork, but Brittany was perched on his lap, her camisole slipping off one shoulder,

"I still have a

honey. I want you..." Brittany cooed,

"Okay. Let's

head stubbornly. "I want to do it right here in your study. Don't you like

deeply, letting her hands roam inside his expensive

"I heard there's a really

"Who?"

about. That secretary who looks

honestly don't know

know her, then

"Do as you wish."

playful tone. "You must think I'm being a little jealous. But with you being handsome and rich, I have to keep an eye on you, or

to keep your hands off of me; you wring me dry every day. I have nothing to

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him gently. "Let's have a

sudden urge?" Horace