Chapter 72



"Jade, what on earth did you do to make the kitchen smell so awful?" Lisa barked as she descended the stairs, glaring down at Jade and Chloe. Jade quickly replied, "I made some of Chloe's favorite cheese pastries. I just cleaned up. The kitchen doesn't smell anymore."

Lisa's face twisted with disdain. "Chloe is a murderer's daughter. She's not one of the Meadows family. Jade, remember, there's only one Miss in this family, and that's me. Got it?"

Jade's face fell. At seventy, she'd raised two generations of the Meadows family, and even Jacob the master treated her with respect. But since Lisa's return, she'd been nothing but dismissive and cruel.

"Jade, throw those stinking pastries away. From now on, it will be banned from this house," Lisa commanded.

Jade's voice trembled. "But these are Miss Chloe's favorite..."

"Do you still want to work here, or do you want me to send you packing back to your hometown tomorrow?" Lisa threatened.

welled up in Jade's wrinkled eyes, and her lips quivered. She looked helplessly

whispered to Jade, "Just put

Jade nodded and left.

closer to Chloe, her expression smug. "Heard you got suspended

my little sister cares a lot about

not to know. Chloe, don't pretend you're still the Meadows

yours. You're just a murderer's daughter, unfit for any glory. You should stay in the shadows where you belong," Lisa

my dear sister always calt me a murderer's daughter? Unlike me, who barely knew Ann, you were

mention of Ann. "She's nothing but a murderer and a human trafficker. She ruined the bright future I should've had. She doesn't deserve to be

her self-defense case into a conviction for premeditated murder just so she got

pale. "What are

said, trying to head

what do you mean?

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