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."

assessments were always

Reed didn’t

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

they returned to Maplewood

guest room door and went

hadn’t gone to work today, and Kyle Coleman had been messaging her nonstop to

study to record a few episodes’ worth of content to send

out, three hours had

guest room door and knocked.

"Mhm."

voice came from

the edge of the bed,

Reed walked over and sat beside her. "Grandma, what are you

said suddenly, "I don’t like sapphires. I prefer jade. But in all these years, this is the only

sadness welled

Grandma not

realized long ago that her husband’s

been lying to

divorce. If your marriage is making you unhappy,

Reed said, nodding emphatically. "Grandma,

grandmother smiled.

the box into Chloe Reed’s hands. "This is yours now. If you don’t like it, sell

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