Chapter 590

An awkward silence hung over the scene.

It took Mabel a long time to find her voice again. "Call the Gardner family! Tell them to come get him out of here!" she said, nearly shaking with anger.

One disaster after another had pushed her to the brink.

The housekeeper, startled by Stanley's humiliating state, stood frozen. The female staff, in particular, quickly turned their heads, too embarrassed to look at him.

Stanley, still naked and shivering in the cold winter wind, hadn't fully processed where everything had gone wrong.

One moment, things had been going smoothly, the next, he'd lose control and ended up in bed with Lia.

Worse, he'd heard that Lia had miscarried, which meant he had crossed Michael—a mistake that would surely come with severe consequences.

"Mrs. Xanthos Senior, I was set up! I swear, someone did this to me! I'll find out who it was!" Stanley pleaded, ignoring his nakedness as crawled on his knees toward Mabel, desperately reaching for the hem of her coat.

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