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Chapter 10| Dismay

Author: Ronald James
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-15 12:43:16

As soon as Matthew and his men, along with Ava were out of earshot, Helga fumbled on her phone. She struggled to keep her fingers from trembling. "Come on, pick it up, Charles. Pick the damn phone up!"

"Mom, what are you going to tell Dad?"

"What else?!" She sneered, "I'm going to tell your father that he had to do something! I'm not going to sit and watch Ava be the lucky one while you rot here with us!"

"Hey! That's not very nice! I have call backs and auditions lined up!" Beatriz frowned at her mother's words.

Helen rolled and eyes and continued calling her husband who was at work. "Do me a favor, Beatriz, go away while I sort this out!"

**

Charles Priestly runs a restaurant--one that he and his late wife started and it became successful, it became known in the state as an affordable yet delicious place where authenticity meets gastronomical experience. Over the years, four more branches emerged, all equally successful.

However, because of his new wife and other daughter's taste f
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