Chapter 4

While Leanne was tucking into her meatloaf and mashed potatoes, her phone buzzed with a call from Jennifer, Curtis’ mother, asking her to come home today.

She agreed, ended the call, and looked down at her half-finished plate, suddenly losing her appetite.-

After clocking out from work in the afternoon, her driver, Jake, picked her up, and she settled into the car’s backseat.

The retro garden that surrounded the family estate, with its sprawling lawns and century-old oak trees, was a place Leanne knew well. She had grown up there.

After her parents’ tragic accident, she spent a few years bouncing around foster homes before being taken in by the Richardson family. But it was more like sponsorship than adoption.

If Stonebridge society was a pyramid, the Richardson family sat at the top, a stratum. untouched by the common folk.

For an orphan like Leanne, being taken in by the Richardson family was like hitting the jackpot. She even married Curtis, which secured her place in the family registry.

Sitting in the living room, Leanne waited until Jennifer descended the staircase, dressed in an elegantly tailored dress.

“I heard you sent Laura away?” asked Jennifer.

Leanne wasn’t surprised she knew. “Did she come crying to you?”

After marrvi

Laura to be Leanne’s housekeeper. Laura

the year, it was just Leanne and Laura, so she treated Laura kindly, sharing gourmet food and giving

was easy. Leanne was busy with work

day, needing a document for the hospital and unable to find Laura or reach her by phone, Leanne tracked her

afraid Mrs. Richardson will scold

in her her sunbathing, Laura had

“Besides, my paycheck comes from the Richardson family, not her. What can she do to me

little pillow talk and she could have you

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Laura scoffed, “Mr. Curtis hardly comes home once a year. She

the women gossiped, “So their marriage is on the

from his past. To him, she was just a convenient wife,

up

expected to hear such piercing

Laura nearly had a fall when she saw Leanne standing

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