From Sneers to Cheers: Anthea’s Ascent

Chapter 168

“How many times do I have to tell you? That woman is no fit to be called your mother! Janet’s voice cracked as she and this, and she was soon engulfed in a hit of coughing again.

“I don’t have any pictures of heef

“But can you at least tell me her name, where she’s from?” Gerard persisted, hoping to piece together the puzzle of his origins.

With that information, he could go and find his mother himself.

“I don’t know!” Janet’s face darkened with a mix of anger and a surge of coughing.

The boy must be out to kill her with worry, she thought.

Janet’s chronic cough always flared up with stress.

Gerard gently patted Janet’s back “Grandma don’t get upset. I won’t ask you about it again ”

Seeing Gerard’s response, Janet couldn’t help but tear up

He was a good boy What a shame he didn’t have a good mother

It was all Carole’s fault!

Carole, the unforgivable sinner! And poor Gerard, motherless from such a young age!

Janet held Gerard’s hand tightly “Gerry, there’s not a single lie in what I’ve told you today. If I’m lying, may I be struck by lightning! You might not understand now, but one day, you’ll see that I had only the best intentions”

are young. They

a mother

him miss out on being with her. You can rest assured, once Ms. Fletcher joins our family, she’ll

Gerard didn’t respond.

medicine, and Gerard took the opportunity to help his

took her medicine, she drifted off to sleep, but not before making Gerard promise to

in

the door behind him, the old butler came

whispered, closing the

nodded. “Ill come back later, then.”

spoke up again. “I have something to

go

“Butler, how long have

moment before answering seriously, “Nineteen years, all

my mother, right?” Gerard pressed. “Can you

expression changed dramatically,

you tell me her name?”

butler shook his

was she

time.”

butler shook

was a child. Can’t

take pity on