Chapter 733
“This young lady and her family want to see Mr. Harrison Lancaster, but they don’t
have an appointment, so of course, we can’t let them up,” the receptionist explained with a hint of exasperation.
Monica’s eyes went wide.
“Anastasia?!” she exclaimed, her face a mask of shock. “What are you doing here?!”
Anastasia smiled. “Why can’t I be here?”
“Of course you can’t be here! This is the Lancaster Group!” Monica continued to gawk.
Anastasia chuckled. “And what about the Lancaster Group? Is it yours?”
Monica looked down her nose at her. “It isn’t now, but that might change in the future!” Ná´‡w novel chapters are publɪshed on
Anastasia’s mouth twitched, speechless.
How could someone be this clueless? She thought after the incident at the bar, Monica would have realized her boyfriend was a total fraud.
Yet here she was, still dreaming of marrying into the Lancaster family…
Recalling their faint high school acquaintance, she offered a rare piece of sincere advice. “You should really use your brain sometimes. Don’t just believe everything people tell you. With a boyfriend like yours, you don’t actually think he’s *the* Mr. Lancaster, do you?”
Shaking her head, she turned and confidently stepped into Harrison’s private elevator.
Monica nearly exploded with rage. “You’re just jealous of me! Did you really think I’d fall for your tricks?!”
The elevator doors had already closed on Anastasia.
It was only then that it dawned on Monica. “Wait! Why was she allowed to go up?!”
The receptionist smiled politely. “We’re not sure about that.”
*I can’t reveal her identity,* she thought. *What if these people try to bother her?* “Monica, who was that?” Mrs. Scott asked.
Monica’s expression soured with disdain. “An old high school classmate of mine, Anastasia. You probably remember her. The emo girl
“Oh, her!” Mr. Scott recalled. “What’s
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she doing here?” He remembered Monica complaining about her endlessly at home and they had seen Anastasia make rool of herself at more than one social event.
“Who knows how she ended up in Riverton!” Monica said with disgust.
After arguing for a while longer, the three of them finally gave up on seeing Harrison and left the Lancaster Group building, frustrated and angry.
“Monica, that classmate of yours was able to go up so easily. She must have some connections at the Lancaster Group. Why don’t you ask her?”
“What connections could she possibly have? This is the Lancaster Group!” Monica immediately dismissed the idea, her tone full of pride for her own status and disdain for Anastasia.
But the image of Anastasia waltzing right in, and the receptionist’s polite treatment of her… A sudden idea struck Monica.
“I know!”
“You’ve heard the rumors, right, Mom and Dad? That Mr. Harrison Lancaster’s father keeps a mistress.”
“They say the mistress was married before, but after her husband died, she targeted Harrison’s father for his money. She seduced him, destroyed his family, and even had her two children from her first marriage take the Lancaster surname, as if that would make them legitimate heirs.”
“I’ve seen Anastasia getting close with some guy, and he’s probably a Lancaster. When I asked Lennon about him, Lennon got furious and wouldn’t talk, but he did say that man stole his inheritance Who els could that be but the mistresss son?!”
“So that’s why Anastasia can just walk into the Lancaster Group! It’s because she’s dating a guy like that!”