The director instantly broke into a cold sweat. "Misunderstanding, it’s all just a misunderstanding."
Seeing him switch sides that fast, Grace's mother looked like she'd just swallowed a lemon, her face going pale.
"William, you really gonna turn your back on the Howard family for that woman?"
William raised an eyebrow, his tone frosty. "I figured you guys had already wrapped your heads around that three years ago."
"You—!"
"Mom, enough. Let’s go home. I’m not taking this role anymore," Grace quickly pulled her mom away before things escalated.
William gave the director—who was pretending to be invisible—a cold look, then turned to fawn over Elsie. "Look, I even donated to your ‘rival’ brother’s project for you. If being a love-struck fool were a competition, I’d be the
