Filed To Story: The Broken-Hearted She and The Icy He Book PDF Free
Grateful or not, I couldn’t bring myself to like a homewrecker.
And now, Wendy and her daughter are bullying my daughter-in-law?
I did love my nephew, but blood or not, my own daughter-in-law mattered more.
Even for Simon’s sake, I couldn’t let this slide.
Instead of responding to Wendy, she turned to Diana with a faint, chilly smile.
“Diana, are you saying Lily deliberately destroyed one of the store’s dresses?”
“I…”
Hearing Nancy refer to Lily in such a familiar tone made Diana’s heart skip a beat.
She suddenly felt a flicker of unease.
Still, she told herself.
Even if Nancy liked Lily a little right now, once she believed Lily had trashed Aurelia merchandise, she would turn on her.
No way I could risk offending Wendy and Elsa.
She lowered her eyes slightly and responded respectfully, “Yes, Madam Nancy. Several of our employees saw it too. Lily couldn’t afford the dress, so she slashed it out of spite.”
“Who exactly saw it?”
Nancy still had a slight smile on her lips, but her eyes carried a sharp chill that commanded authority without a single raised voice.
“We… we all did.”
Nancy could be gentle with those she liked, but her commanding presence left no one daring to look her in the eye.
The group of employees who had backed Wendy’s story now lowered their heads, avoiding Nancy’s gaze.
Most of the staff insisted that Lily, being too poor to afford luxury, destroyed the beautiful dress out of envy and malice.
Only two more honest employees refused to go along with the lie. They said they hadn’t seen what happened clearly and suggested checking the store’s security footage. The cameras had been working fine earlier that morning-there was no reason they’d suddenly go offline.
“The cameras just malfunctioned!”
At this point, Diana couldn’t allow the footage to be reviewed. She bent forward slightly, her tone clearly fawning.
“Madam Nancy, even if the security system happened to go down, all of us can vouch that Lily destroyed the dress.”
“Madam Nancy, Lily’s actions were clearly intended to target you and your brand. She can’t be let off lightly.”
“Absolutely. We’re lucky Wendy saw it all happen. Otherwise, Lily would have gotten away with it.”
Several of the well-dressed socialites in the store nodded in agreement, which only boosted Wendy’s confidence.
She stepped up and warmly took Nancy’s hand.
“Nancy, what Lily did today was just disgraceful. These young girls today, no money but obsessed with status-they stroll into stores they can’t afford, get jealous, and lash out. She’s a total gold digger, Nancy. You have to hold her accountable”
Elsa, although having John and Simon by her back, she still wanted Nancy to get close with her as the Luke family was too rich and noble./
She politely greeted Nancy, then raised her head just slightly, her gaze cold as she turned toward Lily.
Mon, 21 Jul
“Lily, destroying something just because you can’t afford it is wrong. You owe Madam Nancy an apology”
Wendy looked at her graceful, perfect daughter and felt a surge of pride. She couldn’t understand why Lily, who was nothing in comparison, kept trying to compete,
She shot Lily a smug look, about to keep scolding her when she noticed something on Lily’s wrist-an imperial marble bracelet.
Simon had once given Elsa a similar one, which Yvonne later smashed. That bracelet was worth 40 million dollars.
Wendy squinted.
Am I imagining things? The marble on Lily’s wrist looked even clearer and finer than the one Simon had gifted Elsa.
No way. That had to be a fake.
Yvonne had told me that the most expensive gift John ever gave Lily was a few million dollars, tops.
There was no way Lily could have such priceless imperial marble. And two of them?
Even if John still had lingering feelings, he’d never spend more on Lily than he would on Elsa.
They had to be knockoffs.
Wanting to humiliate Lily further, Wendy stepped closer, grabbed her wrist, and held it up for all to see.
“Girls these days are all about appearances. Can’t afford the real thing? Then don’t wear anything. But some people insist on fakes just to look rich. It’s pathetic.”
Lily yanked her arm back coldly.
“You and Elsa-one’s a washed-up gold digger, the other a desperate homewrecker. Who could possibly be more disgusting than you two?”
“You b*tch!”
Wendy’s face flushed red. She couldn’t bear being called out in public, especially by someone like Lily.
Furious, she raised her hand, ready to slap her.
Wendy assumed Nancy would be glad to see Lily punished and would probably even praise her for doing it.
But Lily’s eyes had already gone icy.
There was no way she’d stand there and take the hit. She prepared to grab Wendy’s wrist.
But Nancy was faster.
In one swift move, Nancy seized Wendy’s arm and delivered a sharp slap right across her heavily powdered face,
“Mom!”
Elsa’s face was drained of color.
She thought that by framing Lily and turning Nancy against her, they’d force her to punish Lily harshly.
She never would’ve imagined this-Nancy didn’t scold Lily at all. Instead, she slapped Wendy, the one who had stood up for her!
Wendy was stunned.
She had thought she and Nancy, old classmates, had grown closer over the years. She believed that after today, they’d only grow even tighter.
But to her shock, Nancy had hit her!
So stunned she could barely speak, Wendy’s voice trembled, disbelief written all over her face.
“Nancy… did you hit the wrong person?”
Even now, she couldn’t believe Nancy would actually raise a hand against her.
Nancy let out a cold laugh. Her face, still young and breathtakingly beautiful, was as icy as frost.
“Wendy, don’t doubt it. I hit exactly who I meant to hit. You had no problem hitting Lily-why shouldn’t I be able to hit you?”
“Ha! The bracelets Lily was wearing were fake…”
Nancy’s gaze turned even colder, the sarcasm in her eyes cutting like a blade.
“Who would’ve thought the Luke family gave our daughter-in-law a pair of counterfeit bangles as a welcome gift?”
Then her sharp eyes shifted to Elsa. “And who would’ve thought that my daughter-in-law couldn’t afford a single dress?”
Daughter-in-law?
The entire room gasped.
Diana’s face turned the color of blended spinach juice.
She’d thought that by siding with Wendy today and helping twist the narrative, she’d get closer to Elsa and score a few perks.
New Book: Returned To Make Them Pay
On her wedding anniversary, Alicia is drugged and stumbles into the wrong room—straight into the arms of the powerful Caden Ward, a man rumored never to touch women. Their night of passion shocks even him, especially when he discovers she’s still a virgin after two years of marriage to Joshua Yates.