Chapter 47

Grace pursed her lips, finding Sean’s offer to be absurd. He…what exactly? Wanted to assuage his guilt by getting her a job? It was his fault she’d been unemployable everywhere else in the city.

She started to walk away from him.

“Don’t walk away from me,” Sean said angrily. “I’m still talking to you. Seriously, Grace. I’m already taking a risk by offering to help

you!”

“Did anyone ever ask you to take that risk?” Grace asked flatly. “Did you ever hear of too little, too late, Sean? When I needed you most, you abandoned me.” She shook her head.”There is no need for this. Moreover, aren’t you afraid that your fiancee will hear?”

“Hear about what?” a sharp voice asked. Sean’s eyes widened. “What is it that you’re keeping from me?”

Sean froze. He released his grip on Grace’s arm immediately and turned to look at Lily, who was walking toward him.

“It’s nothing,” he said quietly.

Lily arched a brow. “Hmm.” She swept up to Sean and looped her arm through his. “Sean, darling, why did you stop to talk to this kind of person? Aren’t you afraid that Jason Reed will hear about

it? You know my sister is the only woman Jason ever loved. Although my sister has been dead for three years, he has never had another woman…”

Although Lily did not complete her sentence, everyone knew what

she meant.

Sean’s face paled when he remembered the Projection Ads that

had been taken down and Jason Reed’s refusal to attend their

engagement banquet.

There were far-reaching effects of angering Mr. Reed. Effects

neither he nor Stevens Corporation could afford.

His family reckoned that it was because of Grace that Jason had

refused to meet them. But now, he didn’t know what to think.

only fit to be a sanitation worker.” Lily

you’re so

She was

helping, and for once, Sean wished she would

knows that you’re already out of prison?” She tapped her chin

Grace shuddered.

about relocating. I believe that

him by the

them

highway, riding

she had for him, had died long ago. Seeing him. again, while

much amity. He was just…dead

and Lily holding each other intimately, bah. They

about her work, oblivious to a

one corner, witnessing the

reporter Brian was watching the news

visit to the Sanitation Service Center to offer her apologies to

the sanitation workers.

he wanted to cover, but she’d

and his boss had set him on the story

covered it.

a dark-haired woman appearing on the

this woman familiar, but

had seen her.

woman? Why does she look

footage over and over again, and

noticed that some other details popped out to him.

clenched the gift box and her smile

woman exited the center

press conferencie.

woman bore none of the

the contrary, she looked

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