The Queen They Buried

Chapter 397

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That was just Aubree being sarcastic, but Birgitte was even more ruthless. Their styles were totally different. Aubree liked to set up a long game, draw people in, and then slowly grind them down.

Birgitte, though, was just savage. She was hard on herself and even harder on others.

She said, “You really think you can get into the Moore family after sleeping with some old man? Take a good look at yourself. Can you stop hanging all over Hugo already?

“You’re just a shameless homewrecker, always trying to come between Hugo and me.”

Those filthy words rolled off Birgitte’s tongue in that icy, almost creepy tone of hers. After a few lines, she paused and stared straight into Grace’s panicked eyes. “If you’ve forgotten what you said, Miss Lawson, I can remind you.”

Stuff like that would be a lifelong scar for just about anyone.

Elizabeth finally gave Birgitte a real look. ‘Damn, this girl is ruthless. She really doesn’t give a damn,’ she thought.

Hugo’s face turned stormy. “Grace, I’ve told you before. I’ve only ever seen you as a little sister. I don’t have any feelings for you. Not now, not ever.

you’ve got wrong. That so–called engagement between our

it seriously, you can go ask my folks yourself and see if they’ll even

their son up like that. If he was on board, it’d be a great story. But if he wasn’t, they’d just

disbelief. She was the one who got slapped, yet she was stunned by

me so intimately,” Hugo said

up as

believing that

Ms. Lawson, you brought your cousin here thinking my girlfriend and her friend would be easy

couldn’t snatch the painting, you decided to say nasty things and got what was coming to you. Now you want

polite smile faltered. ‘Wait, this isn’t how things were supposed to go,’ she

if they were totally in the wrong, at least they’d gain sympathy.

got it all wrong. I’ve never been the reasonable type.

you made her upset, you’ll just have to deal with it. If

up this time and tried to drag Grace

saw Birgitte being so proud, her temper exploded. The sting from that slap on her face was still burning,

Bowen didn’t mind giving them