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

flat–out refused, preferring fomula over any warmth she

these years, and now he had the nerve to say he’d accept anyone but her

them, someone else’s child will

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

A true ingrate!

the Lindsay family by winning over Gerard is

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

nodded in agreement.

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

with Delia for a good while, and noticing that Janet was about

brought me nourishing soup again, if it weren’t

Gerard remained silent.

father? What’s so hard about that? If only you were half as sensible as Darleen, our family wouldn’t be

was far more sensible

Darleen never stood in the way of Edna marrying into the Lindsay

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

current state of the Lindsay household was anything but a home – just