Chapter 61

“Ollie is usually non-expressive. How did you bribe him? How did he get so attached to you, even giving you roses and handmade crafts?” Cedrick inched himself closer to her, and his hand that grabbed her wrist got tighter, too.” You’ve already borne a son for Jamie, so why are you still messing with my son?”

He was starting to wonder if Catelyn was a bad influence on Ollie. At this point, Catelyn had enough. She held his gaze firmly, but all she could feel was herself struggling in anger.

What did Cedrick mean, her bribing Ollie?

Also, it was none of his business to mind whose baby she had conceived!

“What are you trying to say?”

“I underestimated you. You knew it was useless to approach me, so you wanted to get Ollie to accept you and then use him to make me accept you, too. You wanted to be his stepmother, to leap your way up the societal hierarchy, didn’t you?”

The veins on Catelyn’s forehead throbbed at Cedrick’s comment.

have

think that I had intentionally gotten close to Ollie,

raised her voice at his face, and a

However, how would Ollie react to it? Catelyn must have thought

value. She had completed the preliminary work too and

for the money, or at least had been driven by the thought of

anxious when he heard Catelyn’s words,

had never imagined it to be this bad. Catelyn never once attempted to bribe him; it was him who wanted

first time, Ollie was disappointed in

of them turned sour as Cedrick assumed that Catelyn was a person of poor

evil intentions! How could

he was cracking his head on how to resolve this, a hot bowl of soup was

see Ollie standing by the doorway. Looking around, he wondered, ‘Wasn’t Master Cedrick’s room the one next

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