From Sneers to Cheers: Anthea’s Ascent

Chapter 242

Are you for real?” Felton asked, his eyes wide as he stared at Elaine.

Elaine chuckled, “Of course, I am! Why would I lie to you? I mean, Carole, bless her heart, but she’s forgotten where she came from. Ever since she struck gold, she’s turned her back on us, her own family! I might let it slide, but how could she forget you and Dad? You are her flesh and blood after all!”

In this world, there’s no parent who doesn’t get under their kid’s skin at some point.

No matter what had happened before, nothing could change the fact that Felton and Gemma were Carole’s biological parents.

Blood is thicker than water, that means Carole had a duty to support them!

Gemma was fuming on the side, cursing up a storm.

Elaine tried to calm her down, “Mom, why are you getting so worked up over your own daughter? No matter what, you and Dad are her parents. Carole’s still single. She is always a Yeager. Isn’t everything she owns rightfully yours? Carole’s just a woman with a limited education, dragging around a kid she’s got no time to run a diner. What if she runs it into the ground?”

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Pausing for effect, Elaine continued, “If you ask me, we should let Saul take over the diner. Saul and his wife, they’re educated folks. Educated people know business better than someone who’s practically blind! It just makes sense!”

shining star of the

and her husband taking over Yeager’s Delicacies was the obvious choice.

barely any schooling to speak of. How could she

been sheer luck that

After all,

should definitely take

She could cool

added. “Carole’s got at least fifty million in her hands. What’s a woman gonna do with all that cash? If she gets swindled, it’ll be a total loss. Just leave her a couple thousand for pocket change, the rest should be in your

wouldn’t have been conned so badly in her youth!

about leaving those millions under Carole’s unpredictable control.

“You’re spot on, Elaine!” Carole was her daughter, after all. Without her giving birth

belonged to

fifty million was hers!

she’d keep it all for

sensing complications. After all, Carole had cut ties

wouldn’t dare! I’m her mother!” Gemma exclaimed angrily. “If she

worry. Carole will come through. At the end of the day, you’re her parents, and