Chapter 481:

“My, Miss Holland, such unbridled anger! That poor trash bin bears the brunt of your fury.”

She tossed her hair with exaggerated flair, gasping dramatically.

“Oh my!”

Her performance bordered on the ridiculous, desperately vying to maintain the crowd’s attention.

Sharp eyes in the gathering spotted the familiar glint of jewelry among the scattered refuse.

“That’s Miss Burgess’s necklace from last night!”

Another voice confirmed it.

“It really is!”

“How did it end up in the trash?”

A murmur of suspicion swept through the crowd.

it be that Corrine

unfolding scene with barely contained

fools,” she muttered under her

antipathy toward Corrine, she recognized that someone of her standing would never

learn from Rita’s downfall

at odds with Corrine for years but had

was virtually

knowing glance

she advised, her

“It should prove… educational.”

falling into contemplative silence as she

snatching up the fallen necklace with theatrical

eyes as she turned to

Holland, perhaps you’d care to

for a response,

room. Claiming coincidence strains

arctic in its intensity, though her lips curved in a subtle,

I were responsible, I would acknowledge

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