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.

she would never have imagined that the once timid girl who followed behind her and was scared by

like this.

couldn’t understand why Lynette had changed. But then again, the

right—even the

café again, thinking this was the end of the road for them both. She would try to avoid her other friends in

occasions, but she worried that she would

Phoebe’s Achilles heel.

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

a naive sheltered

Madeline had overlooked

married, Aleena had intended for her

the company.

one understood the business dynamics in Hawford

eagerness to

Marie worried that the Whitman family,

usually make. They might choose other partners

if all conditions

this made her breathing quicken, and

and anxiety.

all, it was normal for her to experience the aftereffects after spending such a

to have a driver with her when she went out,

was an exception.

a pill from her bag and, pressing her hand to

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