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

these years, and now he had the nerve to say

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

to Gerard, and he repaid her with

A true ingrate!

around before continuing. “Looks like marrying into the Lindsay family by winning over Gerard is off

snapped back. She had seen Gerard as her stepping stone into the Lindsay family, but now that he

*SO, YOU

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, and you’ll be the most respected woman in

nodded in agreement.

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 to wake, Edna returned to the front

Gerard, “Gerry, Edna brought me nourishing soup again, if it weren’t for

Gerard remained silent.

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

eyes, Darleen was far

in the way of Edna marrying into the Lindsay family, unlike Gerard!

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good woman, and her joining the Lindsays would surely bring

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