Chapter 19

“I messed up this time. I owe her an apology!” Gracia said with tears in her eyes.

“An apology won’t cut it.” Natalie’s lips curled into a faint, cold smirk as she glanced at Gracia.

She’d seen enough of Gracia’s slick–talking since they were kids to know what to expect.

The bracelet was broken anyway, and she would love to see how they would explain it to the Howard family.

Lydia and Gracia were like two folks who shot themselves in the foot – absolutely absurd.

“Maybe I should call the Howard family on behalf of my dear sister, trying to smooth things over?” Natalie hooked her mouth in a sardonic smile at Gracia and whispered. “After all, it’s just a bracelet. Mr. Howard could give you something worth a fortune without a second thought, so this little trinket is no big deal, right?”

“Who the hell do you think you are to call the Howard family?” Lydia snapped, her face red with anger and embarrassment.

everything. Don’t try to

the scene and looked at Lydia and Gracia, his face as

Gracia to wear the bracelet to Nate’s birthday party to show

was a disaster! He couldn’t explain this

rushed in, his voice a hushed urgency. “Mr.

and she clutched Lydia’s arm in panic. “Mom, what do we do? Brian’s going to be

voice. “Figure out your story before you come

just happened. Brian can’t possibly know yet,”

door. She lowered her voice and said,

eyes lit up. Indeed, Brian would never confront

the living room, Brian was already seated on

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visibly uneasy, his

an aura so intense that even without

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