Chapter 317

Mandy finally let out a sigh of relief as she stood in the kitchen.

Carrying a bowl of noodles, she was about to take a seat next to Claire. Then she remembered Claire couldn't hear her, so she changed course and sat down across from her instead-this way, Claire could easily read her lips.

As Mandy twirled her fork in the noodles, she tried to sound casual. "So, Claire, who was that man who just came in?"

"That's Mr. Foster's personal assistant. Liam," Claire replied.

Mandy stiffened mid-bite, her fork pausing halfway to her mouth.

He's with Mr. Foster?

Then why was he hanging out with Victor?

As she remembered how she'd swindled a hundred thousand dollars out of Liam, a wave of anxiety crashed over her.

She'd never minded tricking arrogant, entitled rich guys; she had no qualms about taking advantage of people like that. But she'd never intended to scam a decent person, especially not someone who was looking out for Claire.

Suddenly, her noodles felt tasteless, like a lump in her throat. That money burned in her pocket-she wanted nothing more than to give it back to Liam, pronto.

found out Mandy had conned Liam, she'd be

her eyes. She kept eating, but

barely said a word, and Claire, who didn't hear well to begin with, wasn't talkative either. For a while, the only sounds in the kitchen

Claire

moment here, immersed in her embroidery. As Mandy glanced around at the endless spools of

picked up traditional embroidery while serving time, and in just five

graduated from a

fixed on Claire

so serene, so lovely-if she'd been dressed in a flowing gown,

Mandy pulled out her phone and snapped a picture of Claire at work. Then she put the phone away and just

she'd save enough to study abroad within the year-the same year Claire had set herself to finish this enormous embroidery

before she knew it, it

family, Mandy said goodbye to Claire and headed back

to her embroidery, Mandy sat through

sun set, the sky outside blazed orange and red.

the other end sounded

"Mandy, miss me?"

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