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2024-12-08 15:00:06Kate refused to go to church with her parents the following morning. They didn’t bother to try to convince her to go with them, not after that disturbing showdown with Lady Ann the day before.
Shortly after her parents left, Tony called her on the phone and they spoke for nearly an hour.
He told Kate that he had spoken to his children concerning their attitude toward her, and they’d promised to be nice to her.
Kate didn’t believe for one second that Athena and Adonis would suddenly become nice to her just because their father asked them to. Either Tony was stretching the truth or his children were deceiving him.
He told her that Phoebe Wilcox’s father had invited them to dinner to celebrate his 60th birthday.
“Will Duchess and her gang of vicious vipers be there?” Kate asked Tony.
“It’s very likely,” Tony answered honestly.
“Then I’m not going,” Kate de
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