Please Be Gentle With Me Mr Grant

The air seemed to stand still.

The questions were still coming. Blanca didn’t speak. She pinched her thigh surreptitiously, and the pain brought tears into her eyes.

She faced the camera, cutting a pitiable figure. “I don’t know why Kylie said those things about me. She liked Todd, so I let her have him. With what she’s doing now, does she want me to give her Matthew too?”

At that, every reporter sucked in a cold breath.

She’d been pretty to begin with, now with her tears, she looked like a flower swaying in the wind and sleet, about to fall. Blanca held on with feigned anxiety to Matthew’s sleeve, acting like she was a bullied, frightened victim.

Seeing the reporters taken aback, she pressed her advantage. “Who hasn’t got a past? Did you all grow up with a silver spoon in your mouth, smooth sailing all the way? I experienced darkness and the filth of human nature, but then I met Matthew… he rescued me from the pain of heartbreak, and no girl could have resisted a man like this, right? Why are you still chasing after us when we’re in love?”

did Kylie steal your

She suddenly faced the camera and said seriously, “Kylie, let’s let the past be the past, okay? Since you like Todd, I’ll give him to you, and we’ll still be

Flash-

camera bulbs, the

apartment for two in Oakshire, Kylie watched Blanca’s live interview and was about to spit out

did this little bitch grow such

room was suddenly kicked open. Kylie looked up with displeasure, seeing Todd holding a beer bottle as he staggered into the doorway. His

mad. “What

“Heh, overtime, eh?”

and smashed the bottle on the table, staring with bloodred

without saying a word about it. Your mother wanted a house, and have I done you wrong? I bought this and just managed to pay the first mortgage and emptying my parents’