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

and now he had the nerve to

how you raise them, someone else’s

had been so good to Gerard, and he repaid

A true ingrate!

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

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

*SO, YOU

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

in

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

Delia for a good while, and noticing that Janet was

as she entered, she overheard Janet pleading with Gerard, “Gerry, Edna brought me nourishing soup again,

Gerard remained silent.

of Edna marrying your father? What’s so hard about that? If only

Darleen was far more sensible

of Edna marrying

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a good woman, and her joining the Lindsays

of the Lindsay household was anything but a home –