The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

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Chapter 417 The Door That Closed

Chapter 417 The Door That Closed

Back then, even John couldn’t send a reliable housekeeper, and Victor hadn’t wanted to alarm Madam either.

Victor’s mind drifted to the memory of her, curled up in a ball.

He gave Tessa another long look.

Meanwhile, back in Rivermount, the Reed family was unraveling fast after Susan’s arrest.

In what felt like a single night, the entire family collapsed.

Everyone in the Reed family spent the day on edge, anxiety etched into every face.

Just before midnight, Lilian arrived at the Keene family estate. She had come to see Ethan.

He was the only person she could think of–her last hope. No one else could help the Reeds now.

The Reed family… was finished.

And if Susan really got locked away this time, what would happen to her? She didn’t have much time left.

If she couldn’t get the money… couldn’t get the medicine…. she was going to die.

Right now, Lilian was in a full–blown panic.

The security guard at the gate made a call inside, then turned to her. “Ms. Lilian, please leave. Mr. Ethan will not see you.”

“No. I need to see him. Tell him if he doesn’t come out, I won’t leave,” she said firmly.

She sat bundled up in her wheelchair, but the Rivermount winter was biting cold.

She was freezing.

that Ethan refused to see her, her fingers tightened around the armrests of

again, a little softer this time, trying to coax the

at its peak, she was in the palm of Ethan’s hand. Who

people

But now…

a low–level security guard dared toss her aside

resentment. It only made

she could just recover–she’d make

she show them the price of

Madeline appeared.

Lilian

locked. But Lilian quickly masked her emotions, too

Madeline had seen everything.

“That mask of yours

Lilian’s breath hitched.

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lowered her head and forced a polite, subdued greeting.

let out a cold laugh. “Here to see

“Yes.”

be seeing

had pleased Madeline lately, it was

at

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hunched in a wheelchair–if Ethan had insisted on marrying her, Madeline

“Look, I-”

Madeline cut in sharply, “a woman should carry her own grace. I’m not in

tone made Lilian’s

raised hell when Ethan kept visiting