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

preferring fomula over any warmth she could

the nerve to say he’d accept anyone but her as a

how you raise them, someone else’s child will never be your own

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

A true ingrate!

“Looks like marrying into the Lindsay family

Gerard as her stepping stone into the Lindsay family, but now

*SO, YOU

young; have a bouncing baby boy. When Darleen ties the knot with the Christensens, your son could inherit the Lindsay fortune, and you’ll be the most respected woman in Capital City! As for Gerard, let him stew in his

nodded in agreement.

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

that Janet was about

entered, she overheard Janet pleading with Gerard, “Gerry, Edna brought me nourishing soup again, if it weren’t

Gerard remained silent.

father? What’s so hard about that? If only

was far more sensible than

of Edna marrying into

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woman, and her joining the Lindsays would surely bring happiness back into the fold.

of the Lindsay household was anything but a home – just a cold, empty