"Your sister is just blowing off steam! She'll cool down eventually and come back to me."
"Then you can come talk to me about this when my sister forgives you." Alex Grant's expression was grim, and his tone was stiff. "I have homework to do, so I'm leaving."
He didn't even say goodbye.
'Because Alex Grant didn't want to see him again! He never wanted to see anyone who bullied his sister and mother.'
"…"
Watching Alex Grant's retreating figure, the gentle facade Julian Sterling had managed to put on vanished in an instant.
'It looks like the plan to get Alex to drug Evelyn is a dead end. The only other option is to go through my former mother-in-law.'
'It wasn't that Julian Sterling didn't want to approach her; he was just… afraid of triggering Chloe Shea's heart condition. If she actually died, he would have truly and utterly infuriated Evelyn Grant!'
'But now, he had no other choice. He couldn't worry about the consequences anymore.'
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