The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 173 What Did You Think I Was Gonna Do?

It was already late.

Lillian stared at Susan, almost dazed. “Mom. Ethan just said… we shouldn’t see each other for the next few days.”

Susan’s face froze.

Then she quickly tried to explain it away. “Didn’t I tell you? The Keene family has a big deal in the works right now. He’s probably just busy.

“No… it’s not just that. He never bought Verdant Villa either.”

A whole week had passed.

And in that entire week… he hadn’t done anything?

Susan’s face stiffened. “He didn’t buy it? But didn’t he say he did? Didn’t he say he was even changing the curtains to the kind you like

Lillian didn’t respond.

Yeah, he had said that. Said the curtains would be exactly the kind she liked.

So what the hell was he talking about earlier?

After a night of chaos

While the Keene and Reed families were scrambling. Stella slept like a baby.

She got up early, originally planning to head to her studio.

But Abraham brought her to the hospital instead.

Stella looked confused. “Why does Madam Alice want to see me?”

Madam Alice.

elegant older woman who’d come to the hospital before to help Abraham. Last night, she’d called and said she really wanted

morning. Abraham had brought her

likes you” Abraham

we’ve only niet twice. Don’t tell me she has

was usually the reason older ladies wanted to see a girl

Abraham fucked

cheek. “If that were the case, you think I’d bring you

lining up outside the Dawson house

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driver in the car this morning. She figured Abel

got out and politely opencil

looked at Abraham.

out when he called her back, his voice low and deep, with a

turned “What

her

door, and his

every muscle in her

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to

was practically leaping out of her

felt him tug at the fabric

down–and saw his hand, slow and steady, fastening the undone