The Heartbreak Prescription

Chapter 18

Chapter 18

Wendy had been standing there for who knew how long, her clear, bright eyes silently observing Lilian's panic and embarrassment.

Lilian froze on the spot.

Ted quickly hurried over to Wendy, bending at the waist with a servile smile. "Ms. Crone."

Wendy pulled out a pen and casually tossed it into the outdoor pool. "Dr. Whalen, I dropped my pen."

"Ms. Crone, I'll retrieve it for you immediately!"

Ted dashed outside, not caring about the chilly late-autumn water. Without hesitation, he jumped straight into the pool.

Lilian walked over, staring at the scene in disbelief.

Moments later, Ted surfaced, dripping wet, holding the pen in his hand like a

prized treasure. He looked at Wendy with an

ingratiating smile. "Ms. Crone, I've got your pen!"

Lilian watched Wendy as if looking at something otherworldly.

smirked. "What's wrong?

happening. She couldn't understand what Wendy had done

like a trained dog.

"I've never understood why you treat me

seized his company, abandoned his beloved daughter,

for me."

to Lilian, standing

no longer the Wendy you used to know. Next time, it

you didn't

now carried a coldness devoid of warmth. They were dark, deep, and foreboding, like a dangerous, mysterious

Lilian couldn't respond as Wendy

stepped onto the lawn just as a Rolls-Royce Phantom pulled up. Stanley had

elegance and power. Jessica, in a striking red

appeared to be the perfect

she had healed, but the memory of Stanley abandoning her last night to find another man for her came flooding back. The heart she thought had just mended now felt as if it were

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home last night. She stayed at Mr. Hawk's private villa,

didn't return until now."

and Stanley had spent

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