There was a time when Grace practically worshipped Lily. If Lily was even slightly displeased, Grace would be on edge and do everything she could to make things right.


    But since Grace had be so unruly, it was time to remind her who was in charge.


    When Grate received Lily''s call, she recalled the information Ethan had given her. That was when she finally put a face to the name.


    When she answered the call, a warm, almost gentle voice came through the line.


    "Grace, are you free tonight? Come have dinner with Yancey and me. It''s been a while since you twost visited.''


    Lily no longer lived at Henderson Residence. The ce was now upied only by Yancey''s grandparents while the rest of the family had their own ces and only gathered for asional Grace luid no memory of how she used to beat this woman. But since Lily''s tone seemed


    "Alight, Mrs. Henderson," she replied.


    Altre ending the call, Lily turned to her son, tapping his forehead lightly with her finge


    cable, she considered using this opportunity to bring up the engagement.


    → See? She still listens well enough. Yancey, don''t take this the wrong way, but if you really like Alice, then just end the engagement and be with her properly.


    Yancey had thought the same way before. But now, something about it didn''t air right


    "Grace wasn''t making a scene. She wasn''t begging, crying, or threatening to throw herself into a river like she used to. It deli off


    Maybe if she caused a fuss-if the showed how much she cared-


    he''d consider daging the engagement out a little longer.


    tam. I''ve been trying to end it for ages, but she''s the one rating. You have no idea how annoying she is," he grumbled.


    Lily wasive when it came to her brother''s affairs, but otherwise, she was sharp. After all, she wouldn''t have secured her position in the Henderson family as a mistress otherwise. Yancey grabbed his car keys, hi Lily chuckled. "You and your attitude


    Yancey drove off, his mood


    unexpectedly lighter when he arrived


    at Henderson Group. Dat it was


    short lived as he was told that Grace had left just five minutes ago.


    Turious, he rushed to catch


    finally spotted her in the


    underground parking lot,


    He had nned to scold her and demand to know why she left without waiting for him. But when he now her delicate features and how the light illuminated her skin, the words died in his "Grace, I''m here to pick you up. Don''t make things difficult


    The moment she heard his voice, her body tensed with instinctive diagur She reached for her car door, ready to get in, but Yanceybbed in before she could clic


    "Are you done yet? I came all the


    way here to pick you up. What more


    P.n


    do you want? I''m telling you now, my mom likes you, so don''t throw a tantam in front of herter," he snapped. Before the could react, he putted her away from her car and


    stamped the door shut. "You''re


    riding with ma,”


    Grace had just raised her hand to shove him off when a voice called out from a short distance away.


    Yancey and Grace were standing too


    close together for her king. His hand


    was still loosely resting on her waist, making it look as if they were embracing. Yancey inched like a guilty man caught in the act and immediately stepped away from Grace.


    "Alice? What are you doing here?"


    Alice cast a cautious nce at Grace, "Lescause of Crane.


    She didn''t even have to finish. Yancey''s mind filled in the nka.


    He was certain Graced texted Alice on purpose, serting up this exact moment to make her witnou a misunderstanding


    Grace was curing as always


    Yaborgshot her adisapproving ne.


    "Why are you like this? I thought you had changed."


    i had a good-


    looking face. He inherited Henderson genes, after all. And with his height and postate, he always carried himself with a sense of superiority


    Alice''s eyes gleamed with satisfaction as if she had just won some invitilde battle. Looping her arm through Yancey


    s, Alice smiled sweetly.


    "Mas Henderson invited me to dinner too. I thought I''drome pick up Yancey on the way. Grace, why


    don''t you tide with?"


    Come had no intention


    of doing so She turned back to her car and traced for the door, only to notice some deep pashes sliced agross the tires, Someone had deliberately shed them.


    Alice''s lipoverledenes in slightly "ons, links like you tes die ruined Curss you''ll have to cons with us, fast in Vainey''s asistat, Eliku situation yed out endurely differently after all.


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