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.

her getting the wrong idea, Dalton quickly explained, “The engagement’s been called off. There’s no bad blood, though, now that the Quinnells have found their long-lost heiress.”

that the engagement had

elaborated, “I’ve never

The whole engagement happened when we

in a so-called fable and wanted me to live longer.

interest

about herself. Besides, her

deep for

y, she

glittering. “There was this great fortune- teller who told my family that I would not live past the age of

married Ms.

“Fortune-teller? More like

to quiet her. “Hush, you’re still too young and healthy to need to consult a fortune-teller.

a great fortune-teller whose predictions had saved

fortune upon yourself.”

was a warning gleam in his beautiful, dark eyes as

him a cynical look. “Atwater

of pizza onto

served her well, Atwater’s last name was Munoz too. She

th_y_Hathate) Mutor=Fabile:

moment, she remembered Atwater’s drunken soliloquy

while ago.

child, you won’t be waking up anytime soon. I’ve found you somebody that I think you’ll

seriously, But looking back, she wondered if

for her

had a face she quite liked, and found herself at a loss for words.