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

now he had the nerve to say he’d accept anyone but

someone else’s child will never be

had been so good to Gerard, and he repaid her

A true ingrate!

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

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

*SO, YOU

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 the knot with the Christensens, your son could

in

was right. Gerard was a lost cause, and now her only chance was to leverage Janet’s favor, marry into the

noticing that Janet was about to

“Gerry, Edna brought me nourishing soup again, if it weren’t for her, I’d

Gerard remained silent.

your father? What’s so hard about that? If only you were half as sensible as Darleen,

far more sensible than Gerard.

in the way of Edna

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Lindsays would surely bring

anything but a home