Chapter 273
Abigail found herself thinking. So this is the kind of woman a powerful family raises! She’s nothing like Daniella:
To Hair, that speech about love hail probably sounded laughable
easn’t that Blair was incapable of love, laut perhaps the world she belonged to simply didn’t allow for it.
Still, just because her choices were calculated didn’t mean they were right
Abigail couldn’t make sense of it. She didn’t even try to pretend she iderstood.
She was an ordinary person, someone who longed for love, money, beauty and tenderness in
The way
Hair seemed to strip human feeling from every decisimi, weighing only
Later that afternoon, as she was leaving work, Sebastian arrived to pick her up.
value and utility, was a mindset entirely foreign to her.
“Jeremiah told me Blair came to see your today,” he said the moment she got into the car.
He had assumed that after such a meeting. Abigail would call him. But the day passed without a word. He had no idea what Blair had said
“She did,” Abigail replied, pulling the door shut and glancing at him. “We talked a bit, mostly about relationships and marriage. Honestly. Ms. Prescott was more composed than I expected. I just don’t get why she’d try to interfere in my case from a legal angle,
“What she does behind the scenes is one thing,” Sebastian said, reaching over to take her hand gently. “But when she shows up in person, she should know how to behave. She didn’t give you trouble, did she?”
In my own office?” Abigail replied, unconcerned. “What trouble could she possibly give me?”
Abigail studied the lines of his face, so composed and striking. “Nothing rude. She was surprisingly polite, cultured, even.
Up until today, Abigall had imagined Blair as the classic spoiled heiress, arrogant, temperamental, used to getting her way. But now, she realized she’d been projecting a stereotype.
“Su she’s not the brat she used to be, Sebastian murmured,
Abigail was surprised. So, he did remember Blair, at least to some degree. She’d thought perhaps he didn’t.
The car pulled into Sebastian’s private drive.
Abigal noticed someone standing in the courtyard.
And not just someone familiar, too familiar.
li was Blair again.
Several cats, evidently comfortable with her presence, were sprawled on the lawn, rolling over in delight as she stroked their fur.
Selustian stepped out of the car, his expression darkening at once. “How did you get in here?”
“Ida told me, Blair replied sooothly, rising to her feet with practiced grace. “Didn’t she ask you for the code a while back?”
Then, seeing Alagad step out, she smiled. “Ms. Gibson. Living with Seb now, are
Her tone had the case of a hostess greeting a guest in her own home.
wel
“Abby, head inside, Sebastian saud solily, draping his arm around her shoulders. Til handle this. No point in both of us getting annoyed. I don’t want you thinking I’ve lost my mammers.
Abigail was abom to respond when Blair cut fit, still smiling. “No need. I only came to say hello. I’m leaving now.”
Selustian frowned, his voice tight, “We’re not that close, Blair You don’t need to stop by uninvited. And honestly,
itircessarily complicated”
ly, you’re making things
The despased the way islair inserted herself in
Tinto his life
He had never made her any promises. Yet because the elders of the Robinson family had hunted at the possibility, Mair had taken it upon herself to assume the role of his future wile
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