Share

The Aftermath

last update Last Updated: 2025-07-11 21:40:53

*Grant*

Barbara is sitting on the floor, covered in punch almost the same shade as her dress. Tears stream down her cheeks, rivulets of pink running down her chest and pooling on the ground around her. She looks like a hot mess, and everyone in the entire event center is staring at her.

It’s actually Anna who leaps into action first. “Someone get some paper towels,” she says as she rushes over to help Barbara get up out of the puddle of misery. Barbara is so distraught, she doesn’t even push her away. I fully expect her to shout at Anna–A. Savage at the moment–and accuse her of shoving her, but she latches onto her arm, getting Anna wet in the process.

Grandmother Trudy barks orders like only she can do. “Get a mop! Someone get that table up. Wash the punch bowl out and refill it. Where is this girl’s mother?”

Anna has Barbara up and is moving her toward the bathroom. A staff member runs out with a wad of paper towels, and Anna starts sopping up the excess punch clinging to Barbara’s
Continue to read this book for free
Scan code to download App
Locked Chapter

Latest chapter

  • Secret Billionaire CEO Daughter-in-Law   I'll Cry If I Want To

    *Anna*Helping Barbar is something Anna would do, not something A. Savage would do, but if I’m going to be merging the two of them, I suppose I should start making Ms. Savage a little more humane.Still, the entire time I tried to help her get the punch out of her hair and find her a new dress, she cried and carried on. She cursed me–Anna, that is–over and over again, sobbing to her mom about how much she loved Grant and wanted me to be… dead.Lovely.So when I saw the hideous dress the staff found in the lost and found, and the staff said that was the only formal dress they had in Barbara’s size, I tried to convince her I liked it. I guess that was a bit evil of me, but no one can convince me she didn’t deserve it.Now, I’ve listened to the speeches. I see everyone going over to kiss Trudy’s ass. Others are congratulating Grant. It’s difficult to be so close to my handsome husband and not be able to talk to him, dance with him, or even acknowledge him without raising eyebrows. We don

  • Secret Billionaire CEO Daughter-in-Law   The Aftermath

    *Grant*Barbara is sitting on the floor, covered in punch almost the same shade as her dress. Tears stream down her cheeks, rivulets of pink running down her chest and pooling on the ground around her. She looks like a hot mess, and everyone in the entire event center is staring at her.It’s actually Anna who leaps into action first. “Someone get some paper towels,” she says as she rushes over to help Barbara get up out of the puddle of misery. Barbara is so distraught, she doesn’t even push her away. I fully expect her to shout at Anna–A. Savage at the moment–and accuse her of shoving her, but she latches onto her arm, getting Anna wet in the process. Grandmother Trudy barks orders like only she can do. “Get a mop! Someone get that table up. Wash the punch bowl out and refill it. Where is this girl’s mother?”Anna has Barbara up and is moving her toward the bathroom. A staff member runs out with a wad of paper towels, and Anna starts sopping up the excess punch clinging to Barbara’s

  • Secret Billionaire CEO Daughter-in-Law   My Work Here Is Done

    *Anna*“Name, please,” the girl behind the lectern says as I approach the entrance to Grandmother Trudy’s retirement party. I don’t even want to be here in the first place, but this woman is staring at me like I’m an insect, and she’s ready to pull out her magnifying glass.“A. Savage.” I force a smile. That’s what this entire evening is going to be about, after all—making myself smile when I really want to rip everyone’s hair out of their heads and strangle them with it.She looks down her list, her expression flat, like she’s bored to tears. When she reaches the bottom of page four, she says, “No, sorry. You’re not on the list. Please take this woman, who’s clearly wearing a dress off the rack from a department store, to the exit.” She looks at the security guard standing next to her, and he starts over.“What? What do you mean I’m not on the list? And how dare you insult my dress! Check again.” I’m not budging. After all the trouble I went to to get here, the last thing I’m doing i

  • Secret Billionaire CEO Daughter-in-Law   Who Are You?

    *Grant*It’s odd, riding to my grandmother’s retirement party without my wife. As of late, I’ve gotten used to going everywhere with Anna. But I can’t take her to this party because she wasn’t invited.I did contact my grandmother about it because I felt it would sound strange if I didn’t, and until Anna is ready to tell everyone the truth, I don’t want to give anyone any clues as to what’s really going on. I just told her I was disappointed in her choices, and she said it’s her party, and she’ll do what she wants.So here I am, in the back of a black luxury car, being driven to the party on my own. Another driver will arrive with my wife–wearing her A. Savage costume–a bit after I get there. She likes to be fashionably late, and she’s not planning on staying very long.The car pulls up to the event center, one of the many we have built over the years, and there are a lot of photographers outside snapping photos. I hate this. Why must the paparazzi hound us when it’s just a retirement

  • Secret Billionaire CEO Daughter-in-Law   You're Fired!

    *Anna* “Oh, dear God!” I exclaim, staring at two older women getting it on in a storage closet in one of the many department stores I own. “What the hell is going on?”“Close the door!” one of the women screeches. She’s attempting to pull her shirt over her exposed breasts, but it’s a button-down, and her boobs are still showing between the gaps.“I’ll close it long enough for the two of you to make yourselves presentable, but then, well, you’re in big trouble!” I tell them, closing the door.“Who the hell was that?” I hear one of them ask the other.“Just a random customer,” the other says. “She can’t threaten us. It’s not like Alec saw anything. It’ll be our word against hers, and there are two of us.”“I can hear you,” I say, not even bothering to raise my voice. My yelling has already drawn quite a crowd. Customers have come over, as well as Alec, who is standing a few feet behind me, his eyes wide. “And you’ll find out who I am as soon as you get your clothes on.”“Wh-what’s hap

  • Secret Billionaire CEO Daughter-in-Law   Not What I Was Expecting

    *Anna*Poppy and I get out of the car and head into yet another department store I own. This is the third one I’ve visited since I became CEO of Savage Enterprises, and I’m hoping there aren’t any rude people in this one. So far, we are zero for two.“I’m so glad we don’t have to worry about you being two people at once this time,” my friend says as we head over to the evening gown section.“Me, too,” I agree. “Since you won’t be there this time, it would be nearly impossible to pull that off.”“Grant could help you, I suppose. But he’ll probably be busy with other members of the Young family. Now that he’s CEO, I should hope they are all showing him more respect,” she says.I almost roll my eyes. “That family wouldn’t know how to show someone respect if their lives depended on it. Well, except for Grandmother Trudy. It doesn’t matter anyway. Thanks to my fast thinking husband, Anna’s not invited, so it’s just one version of me.”We arrive in the area of the store where a large array

More Chapters
Explore and read good novels for free
Free access to a vast number of good novels on GoodNovel app. Download the books you like and read anywhere & anytime.
Read books for free on the app
SCAN CODE TO READ ON APP
DMCA.com Protection Status