Chapter 414

• Helen glanced over the rim of her coffee cup and said, “That young woman from the Prince family… I almost feel bad for her.”
• Violet scoffed, setting her drink down with a soft clink. “Pitiable? Hardly. That whole family’s built on appearances and backroom deals. You probably don’t know this, but when I got engaged to Rafael, Viola locked in her marriage the exact same day. It was so obvious she was trying to upstage me. She even went around telling her staff that my engagement package was ‘underwhelming.’ The expression on her face when guests kept arriving with more gifts for me? Priceless.”
• Helen leaned forward, interested. “Really? And how do you know all this?”