Chapter 38

Arabella felt a chill run down her spine under Vivienne’s piercing gaze.

Vivienne was downright terrifying!

She instinctively took a step back.

Everyone else in the room was equally unnerved by the commanding presence Vivienne exuded.

“Is she really just a country girl?” they all wondered.

Vivienne had an aura around her that even the most well–bred socialites couldn’t match.

The room fell into an eerie silence. Dorian broke the silence, asking Vivienne, “Is there really no other way?”

“There is. Wait till the drug wears off!” Vivienne’s tone softened when she addressed Dorian.

Upon hearing this, Dorian simply nodded, not uttering another word. “If you can’t fix this, then let’s just head home. We won’t be coming here anymore unless absolutely necessary,” he said.

His words were a direct challenge to Beatrice.

She immediately shot back, “Dorian! What are you implying? Are you cutting ties with me?”

“If you can’t stand Vivienne, I won’t bring her here to be humiliated. She’s my daughter. If you can’t love her, then I’ll love her for you!”

With that, Dorian took Vivienne and left.

with anger. “You bastard! I call the shots in this household! As the child of the Hawthorn

to face her. “My life is mine to control!”

rendered speechless, unable to spout her usual insults in the presence of so many people.

only one condition for our engagement. Give the intended gifts to Dorian. The Hawthorn family

chuckled, “Alright!”

Arabella, and everyone else in the room were taken

to recover, raising her voice, “Wait, engagement? You agreed to

I agreed days ago. We’re getting engaged in ten

as–if–she’d been struck by lightning. Her mind

engagement that Percival had mentioned postponing was actually scheduled for ten days later!

thinking Percival

wasted so much

Vivienne! This must

grandmother is your elder. She calls the shots in this household. The engagement gifts should naturally

her hands clenched in fists, feeling utterly

never said

allow the Hawthorn family to accept the

That’s unacceptable!

quickly agreed, “That’s completely unethical!”

that’s just how I

she turned and left, not

determination, all thanks to

to an end, and the guests left one after the

the scandalous event was made public.

evening, the Hawthorn family was the talk of

Joseph having sex with the maid after being drugged was anonymously uploaded online,

runs deeper than the Mariana Trench. A grandmother drugging her granddaughter? That’s a storyline even soap

Hawthorn child is way more beautiful than the fake one. Did

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