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.

blame Maria, and it was exactly what happened. The jade

you care to explain yourself? Why do you have this?" Bill

Maria because he planned to make her marry into the

most powerful families in Sheffield, but in

with Bill's social status, he couldn't easily get an opportunity to get acquainted with any of

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

the other prominent families in Sheffield, Michael chose the ordinary Jenkins

unexpected happened right after the two families made an oral

also meant that they had

sustained collateral damage from the encounter and needed to

he disinherited Anthony for his

of the company where Vivian was working had suddenly ranked her high enough

cripple. Naturally, like any father, Bill didn't want someone

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

marry his daughter to Anthony. They didn't actually indicate which

very reason, Bill adopted Maria. Now, he officially had two

part of the

end up

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

still reluctant to hand Maria over to the police even though they had conclusive evidence right in

unpleasant characteristics that she acquired growing up by disciplining her thoroughly. Besides, all

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