No longer a pushover

Blake spoke up. "Xenia, Noelle just came home, so you should accommodate her."

Frank chimed in as well. "Any seat is the same, no? You can sit here, Xenia."

Xenia was so angry that she burst into tears. Back then, she had always deliberately taken away Noelle's seat, and her older brothers had always spoken up for her. She never expected that one day, she would be the one on the receiving end.

Donovan remained silent. Xenia was left with no choice but to take another seat, still feeling wronged. Noelle noticed that Xenia was visibly displeased, which was what she wanted to see.

Gordon soon arrived to serve up the dishes along with other housekeepers.

Noelle's cutlery slipped from her hand and fell to the ground, so she looked up at Gordon and said, "Give me a new pair."

Gordon did as he was told and brought over a new pair of cutlery.

After taking a bite of the food, Noelle spat it out on the plate and said, "Gordon, is something wrong in the kitchen? How could you serve something so awful? Are you trying to tell me that I'm not welcome back home?"

Gordon was starting to lose his patience. "Ms. Noelle, all the dishes were prepared by the head chef. There's no way that they would taste bad."

a hint of mockery. "It tastes bad to me. Looks like

her. "Gordon's been with our family for over a decade! Everyone's

front gate's password without permission and even tampered with stuff that our parents left behind. I don't think someone like that

loss for words, so he turned

hire someone else. But considering that Gordon's been with us for over a decade, let's just send

to stay here with us any

Noelle to let it go. But now, with Noelle's temper, if they were to anger her, she would probably cause a scene and say that

for Gordon to

saw that Donovan had agreed. "Donovan, we can't just

stubborn, Xenia? Gordon also came from Aldoria, so going back there is

onto Donovan's arm and acted like a spoiled kid, thinking that she could gain his pity like before. "But Gordon's already like family to me! I don't want

time, however, Donovan just pushed her away.

It

and said, "If you really can't be without Gordon, then you can go back to

want to go back to their old home. But without Gordon around, she would

of the housekeepers were newly hired. They were all eager