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.

said, "If you're feeling down, have

They're

mouth, and the smoky bitterness was replaced by a

was right-the

household was anything

cursing at the tidal wave of

returned

he just stormed over and slapped her, one blow after another, so hard her cheek instantly swelled and her left ear

scared, unable to believe he had

caused a mess that had dragged him down with her. So she simply stared at her furious father, too afraid

had watched the entire

the reporters. He'd just finished reading

exposés about himself-worse than

and now he might even be facing a lawsuit. His anger twisted his features as he glared at Jeanette, eyes full of regret and hatred. "I should never have

behind my back, but I never thought you could be so stupid as

you trying to destroy me?" he spat, jabbing

messed up, but she'd never imagined the consequences would be this severe. Seeing the way her once-loving father now looked at her with nothing but contempt, a sudden

salvage what she could, Jeanette mustered

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