The True Heiress Reborn And Slays (Alicia Delaney) novel Chapter 429

Chapter 429 As Long as You’re Happy

Once they were up the stairs and out of earshot from the bar, Sebastian finally spoke, bis voice low with surprise

“You two got close that fast?”

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As far as he remembered, Audrey had not exactly been warm toward Riley. One was a girl who’d chased him for years. The other was the girlfriend who’d shown up out of nowhere.

By any normal script, they should’ve been at each other’s throats, or at least trading ice–cold pleasantries.

Riley caught the surprise in his voice and turned her head. The cool distance in her eyes finally cracked with something real. Under the lights, the curve of her smile turned sly.

“What?” She drew the word out slowly. “We used to be rivals, so we’re supposed to Claw each other’s eyes out? Is that what you were hoping for?”

Sebastian just gave a quiet smile at the teasing. He didn’t argue.

He reached over and refilled her glass with water. The soft light overhead caught in his eyes, and so did the lively shape of her face in that moment.

“As long as you’re happy,” he said.

He could see it. Around Audrey, Riley relaxed. She even had a kind of tolerance for her that she probably didn’t notice herself.

Audrey had been spoiled rotten growing up, sure, but she wasn’t rotten at her core. She wore everything on her face. No guile. No

games.

Riley had walked back into the complicated, unfamiliar Harper family. Yet here was a friend utterly separate from it all, someone to talk and laugh with. That alone was a good thing.

The meal was exquisitely prepared. Every dish, from the caviar appetizer to the final soufflé, looked like it belonged in an art gallery.

They’d just finished dessert and the server had poured their coffee when the door swung open.

Audrey stormed in. The somber air from the bar still clung to her, yet underneath it pulsed a sharp urgency she had to talk. NOW,

She glanced at Sebastian first. A flicker of hesitation crossed her face, but the irritation chupaing inside her bulldozed rig inround?

1. it.

She cleared her throat and waved a hand at him, her voice forced and casual “Sebastian, Justin’s here. He’s down in the getting tortured by the matchmaking date his family set up. Go. You guys can do your guy talk thing. Go save him.”

The words came out fast and rushed, the excuse so flimsy it was almost laughable.

Sebastian saw right through it.

He lifted an eyebrow. His gaze flicked from Audrey to Riley, who was watching the whole thing with

He didn’t call Audrey out. He just played along and got to his feet

Chapter 429 As Long as You’re Happy

“Alright. You two talk. I’ll go check on Justin.”

He leaned down as he passed Riley, his voice dropping low enough that only she could hear. “Don’t stay too late?

Riley nodded and watched him walk out, unhurried, closing the door behind him.

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The moment his tall figure vanished from sight, Audrey went limp like a punctured balloon. She sank into Sebastian’s empty chair.

Riley propped her chin on her hand and watched her, a faint smile tugging at her lips. “Alright. What earth–shattering disaster has you scheming to get Sebastian out of the room?”

“It’s Colin! That idiot!” Audrey’s face twisted the second his name left her mouth.

She fidgeted for a long while, her fingers plucking at the edge of the tablecloth as she tried to organize her thoughts–or perhaps just fight off her embarrassment.

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