Flora’s Guide to a Second Chance at Love and Life novel Chapter 1631

People love to echo what they hear, and after a while, no one even questions whether it's true or not.

"Hey, Jackson. That girl from earlier was really something, wasn't she? What was her name again? Fiona, right?"

"Not your concern." Jackson jerked his hand away, his gaze frostier than a winter's night. "You'd better stay in your lane and quit thinking about messing with Fiona."

Fiona. He said her name like it was the sweetest thing.

Had he forgotten who his fiancée was?

"Jackson, you and I are the ones engaged. Our engagement party is just around the corner."

"And what if we are? What if I decide to call it off?"

Jackson's icy stare slid off Zoe as he hopped into his car. The engine roared, and the car bolted away like a shot from a bow. Zoe stood there, fists clenched, replaying those words in her head.

Call it off!

Alright then. Just peachy!

Fiona, huh? Zoe was set on finding out just what kind of spell this woman had cast on Jackson.

After leaving the bar, Jackson was back to trying to track Fiona down, but as usual, she was like a ghost. His showing up at the bar was a fluke this time.

"The States! How does Zoe know about our ties to the States? Does she really have proof that your parents didn’t defect?"

In that moment, she seemed to age ten years.

She remembered when she and Jackson were just kids. Their parents fled the States, hunted down, and left the siblings at a Woods family branch while they led the pursuers away. Decades had passed without a word, their fate a mystery. If not for Grandpa Woods from that branch, they wouldn't have made it.

When Grandpa Woods passed away a few years back, the Woods family’s internal battles came to the forefront. The siblings had faced countless life-and-death trials, assassination attempts included.

Even a branch of the Woods family could stir up such a storm. If it were the main branch, their power would be off the charts, capable of causing chaos with a flick of the wrist.