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!

dashed frantically towards Elspethi’s bedroom, her eyes bloodshot as

table, her eyes gleaming with greed as she fiddled with the combination lock

her fingertips numb, she had exhausted every number linked to the Abernathy lineage and Elspeth

a complicated combination? You think you can take them with you to the grave? Glynnis raged, storming out

the room, hammer in hand, she was

were now present–Thaddeus and

Glynnis stammered,

her into ecstatic fits. Now only

on the sofa, his handsome

fetch something for

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

are you spewing?

to me, left by my mother”

eyebrow quirked up, defiantly knocking on the safe thrice–bang, bang

anxiously, fearing the jade inside would

his face

carefree man was poised to lead the Fairhaven empire. He hoped

safe are my inheritance! You won’t take them from mer Glynnes’s eyes blazed as she screamed in

four–digit code, and with a click, the safe swung open

unable to comprehend what

didn’t even know the combination, how

my wife

told you, the contents

they were left by your

Go visit your mother in prison one last time. Sweet talk het and maybe she’ll leave you something nice. But hurry, she won’t be around much longer”

encroach her

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