The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 549

Chapter 551

Hearing Raymond's voice, Citrine froze for a moment.

She stared at him blankly, letting him snatch the cigarette from her hand,

completely forgetting to protest.

Since they'd reconnected, Raymond had always gone along with her wishes. This was the first time she'd ever seen him act so firm.

Was this it, then? Was he starting to dislike her?

In this world, it was perfectly acceptable for boys to smoke, but when a girl did, all she got was gossip and judgmental stares.

Of course Raymond didn't like it. Who could blame him?

As Citrine brooded over how her image in Raymond's eyes was probably ruined,

she heard his gentle voice: "Smoking's bad for you."

She looked straight at him, her gaze unwavering, when suddenly she felt something pressed into her hand.

Glancing down, she saw it was a tin of peppermint candies.

eyes and said, "If you're feeling down, have

one. They're really

popped a candy into her mouth, and the smoky bitterness

right-the taste was

Dickson household was anything

was raging, cursing at the tidal wave of rumors swamping the

then, Jeanette returned home from visiting

Dick saw her, he didn't say a word he just stormed over and slapped her, one blow after another, so hard her

shaken and scared, unable to believe he had actually

down with her. So she simply stared at her furious father, too afraid to

had watched the

reporters. He'd just finished reading

exposés about himself-worse than

twisted his features as he glared at Jeanette, eyes full of regret and hatred. "I should

you spent your life competing with Citrine Carmichael behind my back, but I

to destroy me?" he spat, jabbing

be this severe. Seeing the way her once-loving father now looked at her

salvage what she could, Jeanette mustered

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