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

Chapter 1178 An Old Acquaintance

The entertainment industry was a place where a person could learn quickly.

She could speak to one person in one way, and to others in another. Whoever was popular mingled with others who were as well while avoiding rivals who might suddenly rise to prominence.

Everyone might seem harmonious, but in reality, they were at odds with one another.

Marie might not have been so perceptive in the past. She had no interest in having

conflicts with other women.

In today’s world, it was probably what people called “female competition“. She had been this way since her school days.

As she didn’t care who stood out, she wasn’t aware of these dynamics.

However, things were different now. She had seen one too many acts people put on.

Just now, every word Lynette said in front of her had a hidden motive.

Marie suddenly realized that everyone seemed different from what she remembered after so many years had passed.

imagined that the once timid girl who followed behind her and was scared by the slightest loud

out like

understand why Lynette had changed. But then again, the truth was quite

one thing right—even the

glanced back at the café again, thinking this was the end of the road for them both.

that Marie couldn’t handle such occasions, but

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all, Wynter was about to arrive in Hawford, and everyone here seemed to be targeting

a naive

Madeline had overlooked

got married, Aleena had intended for her granddaughter to take over

the company.

the business dynamics in Hawford better than Marie.

exploit her eagerness to

worried that the Whitman family, wanting

they wouldn’t usually make. They might

if all conditions were

made her breathing quicken, and she felt a wave of

and anxiety.

to

used to have a driver with

an

a pill from her bag and, pressing her hand

she was about to sit down and rest for a while, a black Rolls- Royce slowly came to