Crossroads

Chapter 245

The passed quickly, and Molly had been working as a maid for the Roberts family for a month now. The job itself was relatively easy, but every thur she saw Scott’s harmless sille, she couldn’t help bust curse inwardly

“Ms. Smiggleton, Anssly has greatly benefited from your care. He’s been in such a cheerful mond lately, thanks to you?

Molly maintained a poker face and said nothing

“However, I can see you’re an honest prisons who works diligently anal ant just for money. So, this month, let’s just pay you a basic salary in avoid putting any pressure du you with bonuses,”

pressure my assi i want the money Molly thought angrily, but wondly she remained silent, though her expression dulled slightly.

“By the way, did you find the cookies I gave you earlier tasty?

Molly mudded stilly.

“Did you eat a lot of them?“

She hesitated for a moment. “I finished them.

“Very good”

Scott complimented her with a meaningful glance, then calmly added, “If you happen to have an upset stomach tonight, do give me a call. There care sull plenty of boxes at home. Those cookies have been siting for a while; I’m not sure if they’re expired”

Molly’s expression froze in disbelief, with crumbs of the cookies still lingering on her lips.

“This bastard!” she thought furiously. She really wanted to quit this job right then and theret

sking three

For a whole month, she had endured humiliation and carried heavy burdens taking care of the child, doing household chores, cooking t meals a day – all of which were minor compared to dealing with the despicalde father and son of the Roberts family.

However, one thing gave her some satisfaction. She had managed to incover some useful information while being undercover in Roberts Villa..

“Theard Dominick’s surgery at Aurorasia went very w

is recovering nicely,” she

days now. During the past few weeks, she would often wake up drenched in cold sweat, her hands and feet icy. She would clutch Molly’s hand tightly, mentioning how she heard a baby crying in

words were anxious and disjointed at times, and she seemed like she was not

tears welling

silent, as she dared not bring up

them hoped Stephanie’s children were fine, but that

existed in their dreams.

around 25 days later, Stephanie suddenly suggested having

way forward.

they

didn’t need their

cried tears of joy. Oscar remained as quiet as ever, but his expression visibly relaxed. Finally, they no longer had to worry about Stephanie’s mental health

appeared. One morning, before Molly left the house, she went to ask Stephanie if there was anything special she wanted to eat, only to find her lying quietly in bed. She tiptoed forward and saw Stephanie still sweating profusely,

loud, perhaps not wanting to worry them,

so probably out of a guilty conscience, he told her she didn’t have to come over for two days over the

Molly felt reassured. He was a very neticulous person, and she discovered that even his cooking skills were masterful. In comparison, what she made

visited several times, and car didn’t object to her entering the house. However, his attade remed more distant, not

Chapter 245

it was because of the incident where Dans had dragged

for

did most

anything to do with the accident that

could tell Diana was also feeling uneasy, so she would usually comfort her “With Oscar around, Steffi will recover quickly Time is the best header, they

bowl and Bush it away every time. It defn’t seem like Oscar was specifically targeting Diaru, but rather, he was just

by a woman in the car that day, Oscar

a moment. “How do you know?” Stephanie

Thypnotized her.”

a casual remark

heading

all over the place for about two minutes, and then she became emotional

talk too much, so Molly speculated a lot but eventually

didn’t dare ask Stephanie about what happened on the day of the accident. Everyone had some avoidance mentality,