NovelXXXChapter 260 "Nanette, you're here awfully early today." Lately, Nanette had been stopping by from tto time. Usually, though, she insisted on her beauty sleep in the mornings and wouldn't show up until later in the afternoon, just in tto have dinner with Isadora.
But today, Nanette's tone was frosty as she walked in. "I chere specifically to see you. There's something we need to talk about." Unease prickled at Rowena as she got up from her seat. "Sit down. What's so urgent that you had to findfirst thing in the morning? Why do you look so serious?" Nanette set her Chanel bag on the table with a careless flick and got straight to the point. "Did you talk to Victor yesterday? And if so, what did you say?" The question hit Rowena like a slap, and she froze. She tried to play dumb, keeping her voice steady. "Nanette, what are you talking about? I only saw Victor smoking on my way back from the restroom. We barely even spoke." But Nanette had spent years in the entertainment industry-she could spot an act a mile away, and Rowena's performance was paper-thin. Seeing through the pretense only confirmed her suspicions.
"Isadora isn't like me," Nanette said coldly. "She's never guarded herself around you. She never imagined you might change. But I watched you yesterday. I saw everything. You're interested in Victor." Rowena's composure crumbled. She couldn't bring herself to meet Nanette's icy gaze; those eyes felt like knives, slicing right through her.
Her face went pale as she swallowed hard. "Isadora's my friend. I'd never do anything like that. You're wrong, Nanette. You've misunderstood." Nanette's stare was razor-sharp. "Greed knows no bounds, Rowena. Especially when the man you're tempted by is someone like Victor. I can see the envy in your eyes every tyou look at Isadora and her boyfriend. You resent her for having someone like him, while you ended up with Abbott, who treated you like garbage. That's why you want to go after Victor, isn't it?" Rowena began to tremble, her voice rising in panic. "Nanette, you can't accuselike this without proof! Stop making things up. We're all supposed to be friends. How could you say something so hurtful?" "That's exactly why I'm so upset because we are friends," Nanette shot back, her tone heavy with disappointment. "I'm heartbroken-for myself, and for Isadora." "You know, she always dreamed of opening her own studio. But because you were struggling, she changed her plans on the spot and decided to invest in Seafarer Designs. She's given way more tand energy to this than you have. And after Abbott started threatening you, she pulled every string she could to help you out." "And how do you repay her? By trying to steal her boyfriend? It's disgusting, Rowena. I don't even recognize you anymore."
Nanette's accusations struck a nerve, and Rowena snapped. Her eyes brimmed with tears, red-rimmed and bloodshot as she shouted, "Who are you to judge me? Ever since my family went bankrupt, I've fought to pick up the pieces. No matter how hard things got, I kept working, kept trying to survive. But nothing gets better -Abbott keeps coming after me, and I can't catch a break. What am I supposed to do? Is it so wrong to want a way out?"
"And let's be honest-men like Victor tone don't belong to just one woman h only wanted to use him to get ahead, that's all. I was never trying to take anything from Isadora." The content. is on novelenglish.net!
By the end, tears were streaming down her cheeks. She wiped them away with a trembling hand, jawm clenched. "I get it. You and Isadora are on a whole other level now. Things have flipped, and I'm beneath you both. Just admit it: you look down on me. You think I'm not good enough to be your friend anymore."
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