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

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

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

repaid her

A true ingrate!

the Lindsay family by winning over Gerard is

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

*SO, YOU

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

in

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

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

me nourishing soup again, if it weren’t for her,

Gerard remained silent.

marrying your father? What’s so hard about that? If only you were half as sensible as Darleen, our family wouldn’t be in such disarray!”

far more

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

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woman, and her joining the Lindsays would

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