Chapter 253: Actually, I Don’t Like Sapphires

Hearing this, Charles Reed didn’t try to make her stay. He just said, "Travel safely, then."

He simply stood in the living room and said a few words, not bothering to actually see them out.

Chloe Reed and her grandmother left the Reed residence together.

As they sat in the car, her grandmother stared silently out the window. Watching her, Chloe Reed felt for some reason that the wrinkles at the corners of her grandmother’s eyes had deepened.

She felt a profound sense of sadness and heartache.

"Grandma..."

"Chloe, none of that has anything to do with you," her grandmother said in her gentle, loving voice. "Don’t think about it, and don’t get involved."

Chloe Reed tightened her grip on the steering wheel. After a pause, she said, "She wants the earrings back for Sunny Reed—the adopted daughter she brought home."

Her grandmother looked at her. "That girl is still living with the Reeds?"

"Mhm."

Chloe Reed nodded.

Her grandmother sighed softly. "She failed as a daughter, and she’s failed as a mother, too."

were

Reed didn’t say anything

a meal. Her grandmother didn’t have much of an appetite, but Chloe

to Maplewood

the guest room door and went to

Coleman had been messaging her nonstop to express his

she went into the study to record a few episodes’ worth of

time she came out, three hours

guest

"Mhm."

voice came from

Reed pushed the door open and went inside to find her grandmother sitting on the edge of the bed, holding the sapphire earrings

over and sat beside

she said suddenly, "I don’t like sapphires. I prefer jade. But in all

this, a bitter sadness welled up in Chloe

Grandma

long ago that her husband’s heart wasn’t

had just been lying to herself

at her. "Chloe, you should get a divorce. If your marriage is making you unhappy, you need to leave it. Don’t

said, nodding emphatically.

grandmother smiled. "That’s

is yours now. If you don’t

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