Ex Cried as I Wed a Tycoon

Chapter 170

Chapter 170

"Mom, don't worry about me. I know what I'm doing." Suzan was more anxious about the child than anyone else.

She mulled over her next steps, wondering what would be best.

...

Time flew by, and before anyone realized it, the holidays were here.

It was Effie's first Christmas since marrying Lyman.

She took it seriously-after all, she was the new wife in the family.

First, she visited her grandmother, bringing along a generous basket of gifts and staying to share a meal.

Lyman had wanted to invite her grandmother over to their place for the holidays, thinking it would be livelier with her there. But Grandma preferred the company of her neighbor these days, and politely declined the invitation.

Effie didn't push it-she visited often enough anyway.

After dinner, she and Lyman headed home together.

This year, they were having Christmas Eve dinner at the old family house.

and Uncle Fowler

married to Charis and had a son named

of town, so

held a wedding reception yet, she hadn't met the whole extended family

felt a flutter of nerves in her

Luther's already picked out the gifts for everyone. All you have to do is

her lips together, a hint of anxiety in her voice. "I just hope everyone's easy to get along

gaze turned cool. "You have nothing to

the Etheridge family seemed harmonious, but beneath it all, tensions

resented Lyman's control over the business, but out of respect for the patriarch,

left them

breath and slipped her arm through Lyman's as

bustling, with staff

of the room, Bancroft sat in his usual

"There you are! Come, sit

nodded and

were already there, smiling as

seated. As Effie and Lyman entered, every pair of

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