The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 419 The Last Thread

Chapter 419 The Last Thread

Lilian’s expression froze.

She stared at her maid in disbelief. “What did you just say?”

Even the help dared speak to her like this now?

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The maid snapped, “Ms. Lilian, maybe it’s time you faced reality. Yeah, I’m a maid–but I get paid to work. I’m not some slave of the Reed family. You think this is still the old days? You don’t pay me, but you still expect to order me around?”

Her breathing grew erratic.

At that moment, Ethan’s car pulled up. Inside, he saw Lilian grabbing the maid’s arm, clearly in the middle of a heated argument.

Though he couldn’t hear what was being said, their body language made it obvious.

Jason saw Lilian too, and his face tightened. He instinctively went to speed up the car–he really didn’t want Ethan getting caught up with Lilian again.

These last few weeks had been hell every time Ethan met with her–he always ended up getting chewed out.

But just as they passed Lilian, Ethan’s cold voice cut through the air: “Stop the car.”

Jason tried, weakly, “Madam doesn’t want you involved with Ms. Lilian anymore.”

“Stop. The. Car.”

Jason knew

was still mid–argument. Her maid, clearly fed up,

equally furious, was insisting

the car stopped,

she’d been screaming hysterically–but now, seeing Ethan through the half–lowered window,

“Ethan…”

glanced at her coldly.

“Yes.”

Lilian nodded, looking aggrieved.

coming

was doing just fine without her. A man coming home this

a whiff of alcohol from the car. That scent definitely wasn’t coming

were you? Why are you only getting home

to the

cutting, formal. It hit Lilian

that cold toward her now? Had he lost even the

couldn’t even ask where he’d

her frustration and forced herself to speak through trembling

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story had rocked Rivermount all day. It

few of her old girlfriends had called to “check in.” But she knew what they were really

bothered to visit her

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cold gaze said enough–he’d seen

said, voice shaking, “Ethan… can you help me? Please? I swear, there’s no one else I