Chapter 604

since Elspeth was sentenced to death, Glynnis had been publicly humiliated by Frederic in the courthouse halls. She felt that her already tenuous standing at home had evaporated, and the last vestiges of her father’s childhood affection shattered.

She had always relied on Elspeth, living like a parasite fattened on the family’s wealth, treating money as if it were mere paper. But now, with Elspeth’s assets seized and her own private stash tied up in Elspeth’s accounts, Glynnis had plummeted from the high life back to square one

Apart from the two properties and the pair of luxury cars her father had given her, plus the three hundred thousand dollars in her personal account, she was practically destitute..

Accustomed to a lavish lifestyle, the taste of poverty was driving Glynnis mad, leaving her as restless as if ants were crawling all

Selling the cars or properties would alert Fred

Frederic, but what could she possibly do with a mere three hundred thousand?

wasn’t even enough to tip the male escorts she frequented!

After two days of agonizing it struck her that Elspeth’s bedroom safe was still untouched

The few pieces of jade that were Elspethis ‘precious ointments must still be there, untouched by the authorities. If sold, they could fetch at least ten million!

Elspethi’s bedroom, her eyes bloodshot

eyes gleaming with greed as she fiddled with the combination lock

every number linked to the Abernathy lineage and

them with you to the grave? Glynnis raged, storming out to grab a sledgehammer

into the room, hammer in hand, she was stunned

now present–Thaddeus

in here?” Glynnis stammered, stepping back in

send her into ecstatic

sat on the sofa, his handsome features impassive, barely glancing

something for

the desk, his eyes teasing as he tapped the safe, “Marilla’s belongings are right

nonsense are you spewing? There’s

left by my mother”

up, defiantly knocking on the safe thrice–bang, bang bang!

stop knocking Glynnis jumped anxiously, fearing the jade inside

glanced at Jareth, his face

to lead the Fairhaven empire. He

is my house! This room belonged to my mother and the contents of that safe are my inheritance! You won’t take them from mer Glynnes’s eyes blazed as she

code, and with a click, the

to comprehend what unfolded

didn’t even know the combination, how could you

for my wife

told you, the contents

aren’t yours, they were left by your

his lips, “You want it? Go visit your mother in prison one last time. Sweet talk het and maybe she’ll leave

felt darkness encroach her

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