Chapter 8 The Work Of The Master
"What did I do now? Who are you calling a thief?"

Maria's brows slightly furrowed but she didn't really panic in the face of Vivian's outright accusation.

"Who else but you!" Pointing a finger at Maria's neck, Vivian almost exploded. She spouted fiercely, "You know what you did! You stole Jadee!"

A bit confused, Maria looked in the direction where Vivian was pointing and found that she was referring to her pendant.

"This thing?"

As if she still didn't care about what was happening, Maria casually took off the pendant, and threw it to Bill.

Not expecting that Maria would do something like this, Bill was startled.

Fortunately, he stretched out his hands in time and managed to catch it immediately. Vivian and Julie also came over to take a closer look and to check if it really was Jadee.

But among everyone else, Lily was the most surprised one.

It was actually good for her that the whole Jenkins family had caught Maria red-handed. But that wasn't the point.

How on earth did Maria have the same precious jade piece as Vivian?

It was supposed to be the work of an extremely famous master. There was no way that poor Maria could possess something like that.

More importantly, it was impossible that Maria was the one who stole it because all of this was just a part of Lily's plan to get back at her. She was the one who had hidden Jadee in a safe location.

and it was exactly what happened. The jade piece from

yourself? Why do you have this?" Bill

only adopted Maria because he planned to make her marry

was not only one of the most powerful families in

couldn't easily get an

came to Bill with a proposal. He wanted his grandson, Anthony, to be engaged to

prominent families in Sheffield, Michael chose the ordinary Jenkins family. How

right after the two families made an

incident. Since they were powerful and influential, it also meant that they had many enemies. One night, Anthony was ambushed

even Michael, his grandfather, sustained collateral damage from the encounter and needed

was so angry that he disinherited Anthony for his

ranked her high enough

became a cripple. Naturally, like any father, Bill didn't

family. With that in mind, he came up with the brilliant idea of

to marry his daughter to

adopted Maria. Now, he officially had

Vivian. As part of the tradition, the elder

end up

disappointed since the daughter he adopted turned out to be someone capable

still reluctant to hand Maria over to the police even

opportunity to teach her a lesson instead. He wished to purge all the unpleasant characteristics that she acquired growing up by disciplining her thoroughly. Besides, all his effort would be in vain if he couldn't

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