The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 1084

Susan was absent for a full 24 hours. When she finally arrived home at 9PM, her demeanor was downcast, and she walked unsteadily due to intoxication.

Clutching the door frame for support, she fumbled with her shoes in the foyer. The sound of stifled sobs from the living room caught her attention, and she looked up to find Lucy, her eyes red and swollen from tears, turning toward her with a glimmer of hope.

Expecting to share the day’s family troubles with her daughter, Lucy was taken aback by the strong scent of alcohol enveloping Susan. Her maternal concern took precedence as she approached her wayward daughter.

“Susan, honey, who were you out drinking with now? You’ve got to take it easy with the booze, you know, Lucy chided gently.

Susan, shoes finally exchanged for comfortable slippers, glanced at Lucy through bleary eyes and managed a wry chuckle. “What, you think girls can’t hold their liquor? I can drink most guys under the table.”

sweetheart. It’s dangerous for a girl to be out drunk like that. And you’ve always

advice

in her the importance of self-preservation, particularly when it came to matters of the heart and

who only have one thing on their minds. Aim high, catch the

valuing a woman’s first time, and she never hesitated to impress this upon Susan. “Save yourself for someone

this, Mom! Twenty years of the same old speech! Who says Lysander would despise me if I’m not his

Care one bit!”

was a crescendo of bitterness and resentment. “As long as I am beautiful, as long as

relationship with Leopold was no

talk of their generation, Sesen, in her quest to win over Lysander,