"Grandpa…" Vera suddenly looked up, eyes wide with disbelief. She sat slumped on the ground, her thin frame trembling like a leaf caught in the wind.
He was actually kicking her out of the Taylor family?
Lillian rushed to plead, "Alexander, Vera’s still young and impulsive. She made a mistake, but please give her another chance. I promise I’ll keep a close eye on her."
"If I didn’t have tough luck on my side, I’d be six feet under already. And now you’re saying one sentence—‘she’s just young and didn’t know better’—and poof, we forget that she almost killed someone?" Cassandra gave a mocking laugh, shooting Vera a sideways glance. Her words were sharp as blades. "None of what she did screams ‘young and careless’. This was definitely planned—calculating."
She honestly thought
