Revenge is My Love Language novel Chapter 65

Gabriel was stunned—this was the first he’d heard of any of this.

His expression darkened. “Evie, is what Anastasia said true?”

He’d always favored Penelope, but Anastasia was his daughter too—he couldn’t simply ignore her.

“I… I didn’t! I would never!” Penelope’s eyes welled with tears as she met Gabriel’s searching gaze. She shook her head furiously, voice trembling in denial.

Anastasia spoke up, her tone sharp. “Did you or didn’t you? There were plenty of people at the party that night. You think everyone there was blind and deaf? Anyone could tell you what happened.”

Penelope’s face froze.

Her head dropped, and she avoided Gabriel’s eyes, her voice small and pitiful. “I was just trying to apologize on Anastasia’s behalf. She’d upset Elder Mrs. Lancaster with something she said, and I didn’t want her to get into trouble. I only spoke up because I was worried about her! I never thought Anastasia would see it that way…”

Gabriel’s resolve wavered, uncertainty flickering across his face.

Internally, Anastasia scoffed at Penelope’s paper-thin excuse, cutting in without sympathy.

“I’m Mrs. Lancaster. Elder Mrs. Lancaster should be the one trying to get on my good side. Even if I had been in the wrong—which I wasn’t—what right would she have to blame me?”

Gabriel’s brows drew together. Anastasia had a point. Why would there have been any need to apologize to Elder Mrs. Lancaster in the first place?

Penelope forced a brittle smile. “I was just flustered, I didn’t think it through…”

“So, shouldn’t you be apologizing to me?” Anastasia interrupted.

Penelope bit her lip.

Nora jumped in, trying to smooth things over. “Anastasia, Evie said she didn’t mean any harm…”

“Oh? So if it’s not intentional, there’s no need to apologize? Isn’t that why you called me back today—to make me apologize? But now that it turns out she’s the one at fault, suddenly apologies don’t matter?”

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