Chapter 113 Apologies and Bottom Lines
Chapter 113 Apologics and Bottom Lines
Family–that was Nancy’s bottom line.
And Wendy had crossed it. No matter what sweet words she tried to offer, Nancy wasn’t going to let this go easily.
After a pause, Nancy continued, “Yes, we were college classmates. But no amount of old friendship excuses the 3.98 million you owe. Wendy, Elsa–apologize, pay up, or we can take this to the police. Luke Group’s legal team has been bored for years. I’m sure they’d be thrilled to stretch their legs.”
Wendy was so furious she could taste rust in her mouth.
Nancy really was going to make this as painful as possible!
She didn’t want to apologize, didn’t want to pay. But she knew if Nancy pressed charges–accusing her of willfully destroying property worth millions–the Luke Group’s legal team could absolutely land her in jail.
She had no choice but to swallow her pride.
But even if she had to eat dirt herself, there was no way she’d let her proud, brilliant daughter bow to that tramp Lily.
Choking on bitterness, she forced herself to say, “Nancy, this has nothing to do with Elsa, she-”
“Nothing to do with her?”
Nancy cut her off with a mocking sneer. “What, are her eyes just two bleeding holes? She was standing right next to you and didn’t see you cut up that dress?”
“Mm. She knew you were setting Lily up and still chimed in with those sweet, poisonous words to criticize her… Your daughter is so innocent, so pure, huh?”
Nancy didn’t hold back at all.
Her words smashed Elsa’s so–called pride into the ground.
Elsa’s face turned green, then white. Her expression was utterly hideous.
From the bottom of her heart, she looked down on Lily–this petty, thieving lowlife. She didn’t want to apologize to her.
But if this situation blew up any further, she and her mother would only be more humiliated. In the end, she chose to lower her proud head and apologize–barely.
One day, she thought darkly, Lily will pay back everything she owes me–tenfold, a hundredfold!
She closed her eyes coolly, her expression noble and aloof, as if she were far too pure for the filth of the
world.
At last, she said, like a frozen rose, “Lily, I’m sorry.”
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No one knew her daughter better than Wendy.
She knew how humiliated her precious girl felt right now.
Wendy bit the tip of her tongue hard to stop herself from lunging at Lily, and forced herself to say hoarsely, “Lily, I’m sorry.”
With the apology done, it was time to pay up.
But all their bank accounts combined still didn’t hold enough for 3.98 million.
The cold, proud rose had no choice but to lower her head again–to ask a man for money.
At first, Elsa thought of asking Simon.
But then she remembered: Nancy was Simon’s biological aunt. If she begged for money in front of her. she’d be looked down on–and that, she couldn’t take. So she called John instead.
She told him she’d accidentally broken something expensive at a luxury boutique and needed to pay four million. She didn’t have enough, and asked to borrow the money–promising to repay him later.
How could John bear to see his beloved beauty suffer?
He immediately had Wayne transfer her twenty million,
Having been forced to apologize to Lily moments earlier, Elsa had been seething inside. But when she saw those twenty million hit her account, her pride returned in full.
Her bright, striking face lit up like moonlight through glass, her confidence and arrogance shining once
more.
She would not lose to Lily!
Lily had stood right next to Elsa while she was on the phone, and naturally heard everything she said to John.
Elsa had even gone out of her way to flash her account balance at hér.
Lily thought she was delusional.
She acted so high and mighty, but when something went wrong, she still had to run to a man for money. What was there to be proud of?
Today, Lily had worn a micro camera.
It recorded everything in 360 degrees–including clear footage of Wendy framing her.
Maybe it was just bad luck that she kept running into people like Elsa or Mathilda whenever she went shopping. So today, she’d come prepared.
Even without the store’s surveillance footage, she could’ve taken Wendy down on her own.
But she had been facing away from Wendy when it happened. Elsa would’ve noticed she hadn’t used her phone to record anything.
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The micro camera was her trump card. Elsa and Wendy were bound to come after her again–if she could
prove
her innocence some other way, she wasn’t about to waste her ace so early.
Once Elsa and Wendy were gone, the store quicted instantly. Even the air felt fresher.
Nancy was having the time of her life dressing Lily up, declaring that every outfit in the store looked like it was tailor–made just for her, coaxing her into trying one after another.
Lily only wanted to pick one or two pieces.
But Nancy insisted every outfit looked amazing on her and ended up choosing more than a dozen.
Nancy was so good to her. Like a mother holding her in the palm of her hand–trusting her, protecting her, loving her unconditionally.
Lily loved being around her.
But she wasn’t someone who would take that kindness for granted.
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