In the Lap of Luxury by Unsweetened Chestnuts

Chapter 34 Grudges Old and New
Benjamin couldn’t answer her.
He had always sided with Sussan and Celia, and he had never really listened to what Grace had
to say.
Was that one of the reasons she had divorced him?
Guilt flooded him when he thought about that.
“Apologize,” he ordered Celia with a stormy look. She lowered her head but refused to speak.
Aaron came to Grace’s side. He had a domineering expression on his face and was clearly seething.
“You think you can heal three years of humiliation and the slander you’ve spread after the divorce?”
After the bullying Grace had suffered at the hands of the Hawkins, the mere sight of them disgusted him.
When his eyes landed on Yvonne, he said, “I’ve already found the culprit who slandered one of my company’s executives.”
Yvonne nervously tugged at her dress under Aaron’s frigid gaze.
It couldn’t be. There was no way they knew it was her.
She had sent those photos anonymously, so she couldn’t have gotten exposed.

“The article was completely baseless and spread false lies about an executive of Amirate Corporation, negatively affecting their
reputation online.
“The police will be here any minute now. Once they get here, you’ll need to cooperate with their investigation, Ms. Quine,” Aaron
said.
All the color drained from Yvonne’s face when she heard that. Her heart practically leapt into
her throat.
She backed away, shaking her head at Benjamin’s questioning look.
Her tears fell on command, and her gaze turned pleading. “Please believe me, Benjamin. I would never do something like that.”
Benjamin pulled Yvonne behind him, then asked emotionlessly. “Are you sure there hasn’t been a misunderstanding, Mr. Lewis?”
“What misunderstanding? These two bastards must have been trying to slander Yvonne! She’s
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“She’s a pregnant woman! At this rate, you’re going to scare her into miscarrying! Who will take responsibility for that if she
does?” she continued.
Grace scoffed. “If you’re so eager to defend her, you can go to the police station with her.”
Celia’s rage hit boiling point when she heard what Grace said. “What do you mean by that?”
“Have you forgotten what you have done? I haven’t even started on you trashing my boutique!

“H–How did you know it was me?” Celia asked in disbelief.
She had been unable to get over her humiliation at the boutique, so she had sent some thugs to trash the place.
After going several days without hearing anything about the incident, Celia had assumed that she had gotten away with it and
had been feeling great about it. Alas, that wasn’t the case.
“I’ve already tracked down those thugs you hired, and the police have already recorded their confessions,” Grace said casually. It
had actually been quite easy to do that.
Then, she looked at the people before her sharply. “Malicious destruction of property, spreading false rumors to defame
someone... I’m punishing you all for grudges old and new.”
Celia felt weak in the knees. What was she going to do? She was the mastermind behind that crime, so the cops were definitely
going to take her away.
The only thing she could do was seize Benjamin’s sleeve and cry, “Help me, Benjamin! I don’t want to go to jail”
Yvonne collapsed in his arms at that moment too, still stubbornly insisting, “I didn’t do it, Benjamin! I really didn’t!”
Benjamin was furious on the inside. He wished he could yell at Celia for being such a troublemaker. Still, she was his sister, so
he took a deep breath to compose himself.
“Ms. Lewis, Celia’s in the wrong here. I know that. Can’t we settle this in private?”
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Chapter 35 Fined and Jailed