Chapter 20


    “Adah, you forgot your cash!” Daly instructed the maid to deliver the money.


    Adah nced back with defiance, swearing for the first time. “We don’t need your stinking. money!


    Consider this cash as a head start on your funeral expenses!”


    Daly couldn’t help but burst intoughter, pping his hands. “Well said! That’s some spine!”


    If the Christensens had swallowed their pride and shown a bit of humility, Daly might have been moved


    to mercy when they found themselves homeless, wandering the streets with no ce to call their own.


    But it seemed unnecessary!


    They were a bunch of ingrates! From here on out, whatever happened to the Christensen family was of


    no concern to him.


    Supporting Karen, Adah stepped outside.


    A discreet minivan was parked at the curb, its license te conspicuously absent.


    Seeing Adah and Karen, the driver quickly got off and opened the door. “Lady Karen, Lady Adah.”


    Adah showed no emotion, stating, “Back to the mansion. And tell Laird there’s no need to


    “Laird and the guys are nearly here,” the assistant in the front seat turned to inform.


    The Christensen family had prepared many expensive gifts for this family alliance, dispatched directly


    from Capital City by the estate manager, Laird.


    Judging by the timing, they were due to arrive today.


    “Tell them to turn back.”


    The assistant was taken back for a moment before replying. “Got it.“.


    Karen and Adah sat in the back, silent, the tension in the car thick enough to cut with a knife.


    Not until they reached the mansion did Adah, helping Karen inside, vent her fury. “How dare he! I


    cannot believe Daly would stoop so low!”


    Karen patted Adah’s hand reassuringly. “Now, now, don’t get worked up. What kind ofdy can’t


    Sherman snag if he wanted to? That little upstart Reba is not even in the same league as our


    family, let alone a match for our Sherman! Blessing in disguise, I say. It’s good to see their true colors


    through this ordeal.”


    Though Reba was attractive, she was no match for the polished debutantes of Capital City.


    Scores of women would kill to be in Sherman’s favor, yet Reba couldn’t see the diamond she had in


    front of her.


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    Adah regretted not standing her ground. “Karen, I should’ve thrown that money in Daly’s face to see if it


    knocked some sense into him!”


    As a high societydy, Adah was always treated with the utmost respect.


    She was unustomed to such Indignity!


    “Why bother with such people? Forget about it!” Karen said with a smile,forting her. “They missed


    out on a gem today. They’ll live to regret it.”


    “Yes, you’re right.” Adah nodded, her anger subsiding at the thought.


    With that, she continued, “Now that this engagement is off, Karen, should we head back to Capital


    City?”


    They were in town for this marriage proposal, after all.


    With the engagement broken, there was little reason to stay.


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    “No, we can’t go back,” Karen shook her head, “Cloudcrest is a ce of exceptional people and beauty.


    There must be countless outstanding young women here. I’ll get Sherman one beautiful bride. Then


    we’ll return to Capital City in style to show the Morris family that our Christensen grandson’s wife is a


    hundred, a thousand, no, a million times better than that Reba!”