Chapter 889

“No, I had no clue before you left Imperial City. I truly liked you then.”

She really had no idea.

She had altered her plans without a care in the world about who was fleeing with Isaac. Her sole focus was eliminating a future threat.

It wasn’t until Joie came knocking that she started digging and uncovered Brittany’s identity.

Grace clutched Brittany’s hand tightly, trembling. “Bri, I’m so sorry. Don’t tell Zac… don’t let him despise me.”

She was at the end of her rope, coughing up blood in heavy spurts, as Brittany’s tears flowed ceaselessly.

“Bri, promise me…”

Grace couldn’t hold on much longer.

Brittany covered her eyes with her hands to hide the scalding tears and, after a long moment, nodded. “Okay.”

Grace got the answer she wanted and then everything became hazy.

Wails of grief echoed from outside the door.

Grace’s hand slowly lost its warmth, and as Brittany stared at her ashen face, it felt as if something inside her had irreparably shattered

louder and

Salter family

of the discharge procedures

to why the heavens over the Imperial City, usually

public, caused quite a stir throughout

of the Imperial City, Grace’s

thrived in both her marriage and her career, yet in her fifties,

an obituary, and countless high-society figures

wishes, she was laid

as the eldest grandson, took charge of the funeral, making decisions on all matters big and small.

straight, he did not sleep

Late at night.

beside Isaac in

his black dress shirt, solemn

with empathy. “It’s

“I want to stay with Grandma

hand. “Grandma wouldn’t want you like this.”

knelt in silence for

decades was incredibly

She too had lost the people closest

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