The Lost Heir's Vendetta

Chapter Sixteen

Erica went silent, she swallowed her words as her mother continued pouring her rage on her. "I'm sorry Mother.." She drawled, her voice breaking at every word she spoke but her Mother didn't give a hoot as to what was wrong with the sadness in her voice seeping through the phone.

"He came back yesterday, he's in his office now…" She trailed her words, dragging snorts at each word.

Her mother's spirit lifted when she heard Frederick Clayton was around. She beamed through the phone. "Set a meeting with him" She harshly ordered her daughter.

"What?... You're joking, right? I can't do that, just set up a meeting…" She was cut short by her mother mid-sentence.

Madam Doris scoffed. "Then let your husband know, set it through him."

Erica sighed heavily through the phone and went silent until her mother yelled her back into reality.

Her Mother's yell startled her so greatly that the phone fell from her hands onto her thighs. She picked it up and heard a raging Madam Doris over the phone.

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