My Extraordinary Wife

Chapter 301

That made Ashlyn seem like an annoying, arrogant, pretentious, and vainglorious woman who liked showing off and had also put her parents to shame.

Ashlyn shot a glance at Penelope, who was feeling smug that she had exposed her step-sister. With a frosty glint in her eyes, Ashlyn said nonchalantly, “I never knew that you were so eager for me to start work.”

Penelope let out a scornful snort, “It’s too bad, you can’t get a job.”

Ashlyn twisted her lips into an unfathomable smile and there was an icy look in her crescent eyes which also exuded an inexplicable sense of haughtiness. “Don’t worry about that, Mr. Haddock will come and beg me eventually.”

“Ashlyn, are you daydreaming? Did you just say Mr. Haddock was gonna beg?” Penelope burst out laughing as if that was the funniest joke she had ever heard.

Horace and Mary were both ashen-faced.

None of them uttered a word.

Ashlyn looked at that family with an ambiguous smirk on her face and turned her back towards them.

She had already told them. It was up to them to choose whether to believe her or not.

At the very moment when she turned around and was about to walk away, Ashlyn heard someone coughing violently.

stopped in her tracks and cast a sharp

“It’s just the nanny

look of discomfort which crossed his face and said coldly, “If it’s really the nanny, why

you?” Mary said with a forced smile and continued, “You’re so busy that you didn’t even have the time to eat.

the one thing Mary did not

couple was hiding something from

remained unfazed as she said, “Since the nanny is not feeling well and Penelope is a nurse, why don’t we get Penelope to go upstairs and check on her? Penelope, let’s go together, I wanna see for

have to worry yourself over such a trivial matter,” Horace

upwards as she said that.

and recalled what Mary had instructed her previously. The nanny isn’t ill at

she could not let Ashlyn know about

mother and daughter and Penelope knew that Mary

all. Her cough sounded serious and there’s phlegm in her throat. Based on my preliminary assessment, it’s not

the other three Berrys and was about to

find out what exactly was it that these three were trying to hide from

to see? She’s just a sick nanny. What

that,” Ashlyn pushed Mary away and strode