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.
in this
her tracks, turning back to face her. “My life is mine to
her usual insults
“Mr. Ellington! There’s only one condition for our engagement. Give the intended gifts to Dorian. The Hawthorn family
chuckled, “Alright!”
everyone else in the room were taken aback.
was the first to recover, raising her voice, “Wait, engagement? You agreed
smirked, “Yes, I did. I agreed days ago. We’re getting
as–if–she’d been struck by lightning. Her mind
engagement that Percival had mentioned postponing was actually
a complete fool thinking
she wouldn’t have wasted so much
must be her
calls the shots in this household. The engagement gifts should
father?” Arabella finally found her voice, her hands clenched in fists, feeling utterly humiliated by Vivienne.
but never said a word, making them
allow the Hawthorn family
That’s unacceptable!
“That’s
“Well, that’s just how I
she turned and left, not even sparing them
able to walk away with such determination, all thanks to her dear
to an end, and the
discretion, the scandalous
was the talk of
with the maid after being drugged was anonymously uploaded online,
Mariana Trench. A grandmother drugging her granddaughter? That’s a storyline even soap operas wouldn’t dare use.
knows what Beatrice was thinking. The real Hawthorn child is way more beautiful than the fake one. Did she go
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