It took Benjamin a long time before he uttered curtly, "What do you think?""Her?" Timothy gasped, pointing at Grace and then at Benjamin."And you?"At last, his finger pointed at himself. "I …""What the hell is going on?" For a second, Timothy felt like crying. He needed time to process the situation. It was too much to handle at once.Frederick rubbed his nose and leaned toward the bewildered Timothy. "Dude, one mustn't touch his friend's wife. You got yourself into big trouble this time."Timothy fumed. "She said she's divorced! She has the freedom to love, understand?"Then, he pushed Benjamin and said dryly, "I didn't know she was your ex-wife when I met her."When Grace calmly walked past Benjamin, the latter's displeased voice halted her steps. "Aren't you going to explain yourself?"Grace scoffed. "Who are you to make me explain?" After that, she left promptly."Don't leave! Are you seriously going to leave us here just like that?" Timothy shouted after Grace's disa
"You rebellious bastard! She's Grace Lewis! The fourth Lewis kid, the one you're engaged to!" Donald was yelling so loudly that he was practically roaring.He had sent Timothy to Pamore so that he could get closer to Grace. Aaron had been opposed to this, so he'd had to promise that he wouldn't tell Timothy about Grace's true identity. In return, Timothy had been allowed to work at Amirate Corporation.And yet, this bastard was so stupid that he had broken off the engagement and called Grace an ugly hag right in front of his elders. Donald could feel his blood pressure soaring. He really wished he could jump out of the screen and teach Timothy a lesson.Timothy stood up and kept shaking his head as he stared at Grace. He really couldn't imagine the goddess before him and the hag in his memories being the same person."The lady I've been courting … She's the fiancée I've been trying not to marry?" He wished he could disappear on the spot. "No! It can't be!"He looked up and
Celia's smile froze. "Nonsense, I was overseas at the time. Just because people are saying that doesn't mean it's true."If Susan hadn't asked Celia's grandfather, Tyler Hawkins, for help with bailing her out without Benjamin's knowledge, she probably would have actually gone to jail.Grace glanced at Celia impassively. "Now that you're free, do learn to behave. You can keep trashing my boutique as long as you don't mind being jailed again. I'm fine with it.""I said I never went to jail! Did you even hear what I said?" Celia marched forward, only for Emily to block her way. "It's two of us against one of you. Are you sure you want to pick a fight?"Both Grace and Emily were not to be trifled with. So, after some thought, Celia suppressed her anger and said with gritted teeth, "Why would I? I'm having enough trouble avoiding you as it is."After all, Benjamin had warned her not to pick fights with Grace."So you do know how to avoid us! Our Grace isn't someone a girl like you
Grace smiled mockingly and walked up to Celia. "Why did you freeze? Go on, call the cops. I'm waiting."Celia broke into a cold sweat, gripping her phone tightly. She didn't know what to do."Are you wondering how the bracelet ended up in your bag when it was supposed to be in mine?"Celia froze. "I have no idea what you're talking about.""Did you really think I wouldn't notice you slipping something into my bag?" Grace snapped. Back when Celia had done the deed, Grace had happened to witness it through a mirror's reflection. Hence, she had put the bracelet back in Celia's bag the moment the latter had turned around.It was only then that Emily realized what had happened. "Oh, Celia, they should start calling you Celia the Criminal! How did you come up with such an evil scheme at such a young age?""It looks like you haven't learned your lesson at all since the last time you got jailed. In that case, let me discipline you on behalf of your family," Grace said.Then, she tur
It was only then that Celia reluctantly walked over to Grace and said, in a voice softer than a mouse's, "Um … I'm sorry."Emily protested angrily, "Louder! We can't hear you."Celia's hands balled into fists as she raised her volume. "I said I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!"Then, she turned to look at Ben. "Is that enough, Ben?" she asked, looking like she had swallowed a bug.Ben replied coldly. "Ask Grace, not me." So Celia looked in Grace's direction pitifully."If apologies were enough, what do we even need cops for? Did I say an apology would spare you from the police? You think too highly of yourself, Mr. Hawkins," Grace said.Her smile was so full of mockery that Benjamin couldn't help but feel like he didn't understand her at all."Why should I let go of being accused without reason so easily? Is her status a Get Out of Jail Free card?" Grace said. After all, Celia was only this bold because the Hawkins had let her off the hook again and again. There was no way Grace wou
When Lydia saw how the audience reacted, she knew she had made the right choice to have Grace wear the collection's most important piece.Meanwhile, Timothy was just as in awe as the others. He hadn't expected to see Grace again. He had been sad and dejected before, thinking that fate had made him the butt of a cruel joke. He had deeply regretted rejecting his fated love, and he had decided to take responsibility for his mistake. So he had vowed to never bother Grace again.But when he saw her, his heart started pounding uncontrollably again, just like that night on the balcony … "Mom, look. It's that jinx again!" In the corner, Celia tugged on Susan's sleeve.However, Susan simply huffed, "I'm not blind. You didn't have to tell me.""Oh." Celia shut up immediately. She had gotten a huge lecture for getting arrested again, so nowadays, she would get yelled at for even breathing too loudly.As Susan looked at Tears of the Ocean, another idea blossomed in her head. Why not b
"Guilt, my foot!" Susan said with gritted teeth, then ran toward a secluded spot with Celia.However, the reporters followed them. In that moment, there were more people looking at them than those looking at the stage.After the exhibition ended, Grace went backstage and casually put Tears of the Ocean aside while Emily changed in a different dressing room.Grace sat there, looking at the photos Emily had shared in the group chat. "Look, babe! We were so pretty," Emily had texted."Love it," Grace replied."If it hadn't been for my overseas business trip, I wouldn't have missed it. Hugs," Zoey texted."Thanks for your hard work! Let's get together later," Lydia piped up."I almost died laughing today. The look on Susan's face when she got rejected had me in tears," Emily said."She loves haunting me," Grace replied.As if on cue, the door behind Grace opened. Both Susan and Celia barged in furiously while Grace smiled with mockery, as if she were looking at two losers. "What
"Believe me, Benjamin. Mom and I only got into this mess because that jinx started it." Celia was so worried that Benjamin wouldn't believe her that her face turned red.Susan was about to stand up and keep talking, but then she blacked out in her anger and collapsed again. Celia quickly caught her.Grace was already used to their tricks, so she smiled mockingly. "That's right. It was me," she said proudly. She didn't want to waste her time with these people, so she went back inside.However, Benjamin blocked her way with his brows furrowed. Grace stepped back to put some distance between them, then said indifferently, "Move."Benjamin took one look at Susan and Celia, who seemed half-dead, and changed his mind again. "How much longer are you going to stay angry?" he asked with a cold voice and narrowed eyes.Grace thought that was the funniest thing she had ever heard that day. "What's there to be mad about?""Aren't you attacking them because you still hold a grudge over bein