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Chapter 138: No One Is Fit to Be My Daughter-in-law

Author: Marry Stone
last update Last Updated: 2024-04-15 11:00:10
Suzy instinctively covered her heart with her hand.

She asked herself.

Did she invest her feelings in him?

"Hello? Suzy?" Wendy called out to her several times from the other end.

Suzy snapped out of her thoughts. "I'm here."

"Promise me, you won’t go for a man who is already in love with someone else okay?”

She smiled and lowered her eyelashes. "Yeah, okay."

…

As Alec was handling the tasks in New Valley, and since Liam couldn't make it there, he remained occupied at the company until nine o'clock in the evening.

Seated in the car, Liam unfastened the top button of his shirt and loosened his tie with his slender fingers.

"Mr. Park, are you heading back to Easter Bay?" John asked, turning to him.

"Yeah," he replied, then remembered something. "Did you drop her off?"

"Yes, Miss Chase is at Easter Bay."

At the thought of Suzy, Liam smiled slightly.

This woman continuously brought up his relationship with Sophia. If he were to look at it from a different perspective, did that mean she car
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