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331.Chapter 331
Lily led Miranda out to the garden.
With guests over today, all the servants were busy inside the villa, so the garden was pretty much deserted.
Lily kept glancing at Miranda, and when she saw Miranda still wasn’t saying anything, she finally asked, “Miranda, are you still mad at me?”
Miranda gave a cold chuckle. “Mad at you? How could I? You’re Riverdale’s star girl, the Swansons’ favorite princess. Me? I m just the one who got thrown out of her own family. How could I ever dare to be mad at you?”
Lily caught a look at Miranda’s expression and secretly let out a sigh of relief.
‘Looks like she’s really mad, Lily thought to herself. ‘Good, that’s what I want to see. The real problem would be if she weren t mad. If that happened, I’d have to start worrying that Miranda’s already switched over to Nina’s side.’
“Miranda, please don’t blame me,” Lily said, her eyes shimmering with unshed tears, sounding genuinely aggrieved. “Nina’s just too much.
“She’s got Ryan on her side. I really wanted to help you that day, but there was nothing I could do. You don’t know that I got targeted by them, too.”
Miranda gave her a sidelong glance, pretending to be surprised. Oh? What did she do to you?”
“She had Grandma backing her up and nearly got me kicked out of the Swansons. If my mom hadn’t done everything she could to protect me, they would’ve thrown me out for sure,” Lily said.
Miranda scowled, her anger obvious. “Is Nina really causing all that trouble?”
“Whatever, let’s just drop it,” Lily said, shaking her head. “But you still haven’t told me. What’s up with you and Nina?”
“Don’t even get me started,” Miranda said, rolling her eyes. “Nina just showed up at the Hawthorne family out of nowhere. claiming she is my aunt. She even said she’d tracked down my grandparents.
“Then she said she wanted to bring me to Riverdale to help my mom raise me. Please, she’s someone who used to work at a nightclub.
“What could she possibly teach me? But for some reason, my grandpa totally fell for it and made her take me away.
“And she brought me here and then just left me to fend for myself. Honestly, I think she’s just putting on a show so no one calls her ungrateful. After all, my mom saved her and raised her all these years.”
Lily gave Miranda a thoughtful look and asked, “Does your grandpa treat you well?”
“Yeah,” Miranda nodded. “My dad’s a total jerk, but my grandpa’s the only one who ever really cared about me. If he hadn’t had my back, I would’ve been kicked out of the Hawthorne family a long time ago.
“He said since Nina was adopted by my mom, she’s basically my aunt, so I should just do her a favor and go along with it. He told me not to stress.
“It’s just one year with Nina, and after I finish my senior year, I’ll be off to Betrico for college next year.”
Once Miranda got started, she just couldn’t hold back. “My grandpa knows my dad doesn’t give a damn about me, so he went ahead and arranged a really good match for me. The Rivers family from Betrico. You know them, right?”
“The Rivers family?” Lily gasped, totally stunned. “Wait, you mean Jason’s family?”
Jason was basically Ryan’s best bro. Rumor had it that Jason once saved Ryan’s life.
The Rivers family used to be nobodies, but with Ryan’s help, they got into the high society in Betrico.
Now, the Rivers family was absolutely skyrocketing.
Tons of girls were dying to marry that family.
‘No way, Miranda’s luck is insane. She could actually marry into the Rivers family, Lily thought, totally floored.
Miranda nodded. “Yeah. But I’m not marrying Jason. I’m set to marry his big brother.” “Jason’s big brother? Elliott?” Lily blurted out, her shock written all over her face. Sure, the Rivers family got a leg up from Ryan, but Elliott was a whole different story. Elliott’s one of the hottest new names in busined thereabo empire from scratch.
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elege, he went out on his own and built his
He’s all about new media. His company just launched a super popular live streaming app that was blowing up right now.
The profits his company raked in every year were absolutely insane.
Just by himself, he’s basically a one-man powerhouse.
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In other words, if the Rivers family ever crashed and burned, Elliott could totally bring them back from the ashes all by
himself.
That’s the kind of power Elliott’s got.
Elliott’s actually someone who could go toe-to-toe with Ryan.
Lily had totally struck out with Ryan, so her next move was to get close to Elliott.
After all, Elliott wasn’t just a hotshot in business. He didn’t have any girls hanging around him.
He was already twenty-five and had never even dated anyone.
He said in an interview that he’d only date for marriage, and he only accepted being a widower, not a divorced man.
That kind of man was just her type.
She wanted nothing more than to be the woman in Elliott’s life.
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