The Perfect Wife's Perfect Revenge

Chapter 519

Chapter 519

"If you insist."

Hawthorne didn't bother to hide his disdain just because Gwyneth looked upset. The Everharts' attempt to smooth things over fell flat.

No one at the table had ever seen Hawthorne so openly hostile toward a young girl-he treated her as if she were a sworn enemy.

"As far as I know, there aren't many folks in Greenvale with the last name Langford," he said, voice cool. "Miss Langford, what do your parents do here in Greenvale?"

He didn't even try to be subtle. Gwyneth was at her breaking point.

But Leonie remembered what her dad had told her: there was bad blood between Hawthorne and the Everhart family. A man like Hawthorne, heir to a powerful family, wouldn't go after her for simply being friends with Leonie-his suspicions were tenacious, almost rabid.

He was questioning who she really was.

"Uncle-Gwyn-"

Hawthorne shot her a cold glance. Leonie fell silent instantly.

The Everharts were starting to catch on, growing uneasy.

the Langfords. He'd never really set foot in the cutthroat world of business, so he didn't

in her life, she felt like she couldn't breathe in

younger brother and sister. We live off welfare. I came to Greenvale to make a living, but my ex- boyfriend tried to sabotage me in my field,

sipping soup with his head down, choked when

she was just making things up as she

"Miss Langford, we're hardly acquainted. 'Uncle' isn't

rest of the meal was

her food. Hawthorne, on the other hand, ate and drank with infuriating poise and refinement, as if nothing at all were out

then reached for a wet wipe to clean his already immaculate

assumed he was finished and about to leave, and

cold and distant. The words he spoke next made everyone at the table catch

my company. Didn't you say you need a job

"No way."

it out, but after one look at Hawthorne, her voice

job's fine, but... I want

keep a close watch on her.

deeply.

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