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Chapter 39

Author: Deer Woods
'10,000,000 dollars for a divorce and to buy Lily out of the Prescott family…' If Lucille hadn't heard it with her own ears, she would never have believed people still thought this way in the 21st century.

To them, her daughter was not even a person.

And it was not as if the Prescotts sat on some untouchable throne that needed protecting.

A sharp, hollow laugh escaped Lucille. It was the kind that surfaced when anger had nowhere else to go.

Her entire body trembled. The words caught in her t
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