Chapter 26

After signing the lease, Astrid and Alan sent their new address to Gracle Just as Astrid was about to hit the sack, a video call invitation popped up: Magee wants to FaceTime.

Astrid pressed accept and saw Magee’s giant nostril on the screen. “Astrid, I’m your dad”

Astrid was already used to Magee’s weird angles during video calls, so she replied somewhat speechlessly, “Of course I know you’re my dad. What’s up? If there’s nothing, I’m hanging up. I’m bushed.”

Magee “Hold on, I heard you moved to a new place I’m sending someone from the cleaning service over tomorrow.”

Astrid groaned, “No need, I‘

Before she could finish her sentence, the video shifted to a bespectacled gentleman, ‘Astrid, are you sure you don’t want me to fly over and pick you up? It’s a jungle out there, I’m worried about you. If you don’t want to fly, I can sail over”

Astrid

They’re always trying to lure her back to take over the family fortune. She won’t fall for it!

“I don’t think we should send a cleaning service to Astrid. She’s so attractive, who knows what might happen?” The voice came from Astrid’s brother, Robb Brooke, who was not in the video.

Astrid rolled her eyes. It seemed Robb and Brandon Brooke had been taken fishing by Magee again and were all sunburnt.

can’t send a cleaning service. But Astrid can’t clean herself, she’ll be knackered. Just wait,

Astrid hung

who’s been messing with you is Fannie’s dad

it’s really scary. He evaded taxes totaling 10 billion

knew a lot of big shot directors had tax issues,

“Collect the evidence and

we report it to the

nuts? People like Wes have protection. You can only make

arrange it right away!!!”

set her up? Ha.

Astrid

Wes’s tax evasion had blown up on the Internet and the relevant departments started Investigating soon after. Fannie’s

with envy!” Gracle was sucking on a lollipop, her words muffled, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall. He’s screwed this time.

trouble, she couldn’t stop mentioning him. Now that her dad is

himself in times of

since the news broke out, Gracle hadn’t stopped badmouthing.

Astrid saw an uninvited guest by her

shocked by her brother’s names. Their dad was a huge Game of Thrones fan and

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