Chapter 209

After sending Xavier off, Julia turned to Haley. "I told you yesterday you didn't need to come keep me company. Why are you here again?" And after a full day of work, no less. "I was worried you might soften up. Luckily I came, otherwise I wouldn't have seen for myself how good the Holt father and son are at pretending." Even after witnessing Sebastian's attentiveness toward Julia and Xavier's sudden obedience, Haley still believed it was all an act. She couldn't help it—the impression they'd left before had been far too awful. If they hadn't treated Julia so cruelly in the past, Haley wouldn't be looking at them with such suspicion now. "By the way, where's Sebastian? Already dropped the act so soon?" Haley asked suddenly. She hadn't seen him on her way in. Had he run off? "He said something came up at the company and went back for a while," Julia replied. After all, Sebastian was running a massive corporation. He couldn't just abandon everything outright. "You're not mad?"