The Heiress’ Return: Six Brothers at Her Beck and Call

Chapter 276 Atwater Munoz’s Fable

Perhaps it was because Dalton had such nice wrists that he made

wearing a scrunchie look fashionable and elegant.

Wynter couldn’t resist glancing at his wrist a second time. Suddenly,

she asked, “So what’s the Quinnells’ stance on this whole Ms.

Quinnell business?”

“Mr. Quinnell Senior spent many years searching for her,” Dalton began with a smile, pushing the plate of pizza toward Wynter. “Why the sudden curiosity?”

She feigned nonchalance. “I figured I’d get to know my patient a little

better. You’re a distant relative of his, after all.”

Dalton was adding a few splashes of tabasco to his pizza when

Wynter’s answer made him pause.

He confessed pleasantly, “Technically, I’m not. Our grandfathers just

knew each other. If we were related, then I wouldn’t have been

engaged to Ms. Quinnell in the first place.”

It was only then that Wynter was reminded of the engagement. She gave Dalton an odd look.

wrong idea, Dalton quickly explained, “The engagement’s been called off.

pizza. She didn’t mind. that the engagement had been called off. She had no intention of getting married young

elaborated, “I’ve never met Ms. Quinnell

happened when we were

so-called fable and wanted me to

fable?” Wynter’s interest was sufficiently piqued.

to know everything about herself. Besides, her old job

dig deep for information.

y, she

Dalton surveyed Wynter in amusement, his dark eyes glittering. “There was this great fortune- teller who told my family

I married Ms. Quinnell.”

“Fortune-teller? More like a

you’re still too young and healthy

to know that Atwater Munoz was a great fortune-teller whose predictions had saved lives. He was a master of his craft. So don’t badm*uth him or you’ll bring

fortune upon yourself.”

was a warning gleam in his beautiful, dark eyes as he said

a

another slice of

was Munoz too. She silently cursed the old man for telling the Quinnells some ridiculous fable he made

th_y_Hathate) Mutor=Fabile:

remembered Atwater’s drunken soliloquy from a

while ago.

waking up anytime soon. I’ve found you somebody that I think you’ll like based on

seriously, But

for her benefit.

a face she quite liked, and found herself at a loss for words. “You shouldn’t get so hung up on what