The Second Life of a Discarded Heiress

Chapter 698

Quentin let out a cold snort. "You really are your parents' child-just as low and shameless as they were."

His contempt and disgust were plain as day, sharp and undisguised in every word.

Jeanette's greatest fear was always this-people dragging her parents into things, using their mistakes to attack her. The words hit her like a stone sinking in her chest.

She clutched the blanket to her chest, trying to cover herself, overwhelmed with humiliation. In that instant, regret crashed down on her. What was she thinking, crawling into Quentin's bed? She must have completely lost her mind.

Even Kali-Quentin's old flame, the one everyone said he'd never forgotten-had failed to win him over. How could she possibly have succeeded?

Jeanette's face was ashen, and all she wanted was for the two of them to leave. But Quentin and Theo seemed in no hurry; they just stood there watching her, as if this was some kind of macabre performance.

They didn't budge. The silence stretched on, until finally the commotion drew Kali to the doorway.

Kali took in the scene at a glance: Jeanette, naked, tangled in Quentin's sheets, her silk nightgown abandoned on the floor-no question what had happened here.

A wave of anger twisted Kali's features.

wretched girl had beaten her to it. And to think she'd ever called

with rage, and she wanted nothing more than to slap Jeanette across the face, to leave her marked and ruined. But she glanced at Quentin standing in the doorway and bit back her fury. Quentin had no patience for

allowed

turned to Theo. "Theo, I need to tell

looked at her, confusion flickering

out before speaking, as if she were struggling with her conscience. "Remember when I told Jeanette about how you were rescued as a child at Havencrest? The very

wasn't stupid. He

gaze went cold and sharp, fixing on Jeanette

disbelief and betrayal warring in her eyes. She couldn't believe Kali would throw her under the bus-but then, after what she'd done, was it really

"Theo, what are you

having it. He

on the edge

her. "Don't think

the Glenwoods went bankrupt, I can't deal with you. If you don't tell me the truth,

it.

Quentin would throw her out of the Aldridge