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.

quickly explained, “The engagement’s been called off. There’s no bad blood,

that the

“I’ve never met

whole engagement happened when we were children,

so-called fable and wanted

fable?” Wynter’s interest was

everything about herself. Besides,

deep for

y, she

eyes glittering. “There was this great fortune- teller who told my family that

married Ms.

“Fortune-teller? More like

“Hush, you’re still too young and healthy to need to consult

to know that Atwater Munoz was a great fortune-teller whose predictions had saved lives.

fortune upon yourself.”

was a warning gleam in his beautiful, dark eyes

a cynical look.

laid another slice of pizza

Munoz

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she remembered Atwater’s drunken

while ago.

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

kept calling her “my child” after that. Wynter never took him seriously, But looking back, she wondered if he had lied to

her

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

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