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.

the wrong idea, Dalton quickly explained, “The engagement’s been called off. There’s no bad blood, though, now

pizza. She didn’t mind. that the engagement had been

chuckled lightly and elaborated, “I’ve never met

engagement happened when we

believed in a so-called fable and wanted me

Wynter’s interest

Besides, her old job had been

deep for

y, she

shirt, Dalton surveyed Wynter in amusement, his dark eyes glittering. “There was this great fortune- teller who told my family that I would not

married

“Fortune-teller? More like a charlatan.”

l*ps to quiet her. “Hush, you’re still too young

great fortune-teller whose predictions had saved lives. He was a master of his craft. So

fortune upon yourself.”

warning gleam in his beautiful, dark

him a cynical look. “Atwater Munoz?”

another slice of pizza onto

last name was Munoz too. She silently cursed

th_y_Hathate) Mutor=Fabile:

Atwater’s drunken soliloquy from a

while ago.

I’ve found you somebody that I think you’ll like based on your past preferences. He’s got a really strong aura. How about you

seriously, But looking back, she wondered if he had

for her

and found herself at a loss for words. “You shouldn’t get so hung up on what a fortune-teller said. Proper