From Sneers to Cheers: Anthea’s Ascent

Chapter 202

And Edna was playing the hostess to perfection!

She directed the servants with such case and hair, outshining even her days with the Fletchers.

“Miss Edna, your coffee, Della sald, presenting a steaming cup.

Edna smiled and gratefully accepted the coffee from Delia,

Selzing the moment, Delia whispered something in Edna’s ear.

Edna’s expression darkened, and she set down her cup, hurrying toward the door with Della in tow.

They made their way to a secluded spat in the Lindsay family’s expansive backyard, near a quaint little rockery.

Edna frowned and said, “Are you sure that’s what Gerand told Janet?”

Delin nodded, “Heard it with my own ears.”

Edna’s frown deepened. That boy Gerard was so ungrateful!

She had felt for him when he was little, motherless, and had tried to care for him

refused, preferring fomula over any warmth

had doted on him, coddled him, all these years, and now he had the nerve to say he’d accept anyone but her as a stepmother! It was true

else’s child

had been so good to Gerard, and he repaid her with betrayal, biting

A true ingrate!

the Lindsay family by winning over Gerard is

She had seen Gerard as her stepping stone into the Lindsay family, but now that he had his own agenda,

*SO, YOU

up to Janet,” Delia said. “While she still calls the shots, you need to get yourself married into the Lindsay family. You and Jonah are still young; have a bouncing baby boy. When Darleen ties the knot with the Christensens, your son could inherit the Lindsay fortune,

nodded in agreement.

a lost cause, and now her only chance was to leverage Janet’s favor, marry into the Lindsays quickly, and have

while, and noticing that Janet was about to wake, Edna returned

me nourishing soup again, if it weren’t for her, I’d have been six feet

Gerard remained silent.

of Edna marrying your father? What’s so hard about that? If only you were half as sensible as Darleen, our

far more

Darleen never stood in the way of

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woman, and her joining the Lindsays would surely

the Lindsay household was anything but a home – just