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.

must have lost

feel her wrath rising steadily. “If you truly think that I had intentionally gotten close to Ollie, feel free to fire me. You can take your son back to your place,

at his face, and a theory

perfect liberty to fire her. However, how would Ollie react to it? Catelyn must have thought about this, and that was

She had completed the preliminary work too and was only waiting for execution to complete and, subsequently,

was in it for the money, or at least had been driven by the

who was eavesdropping outside the door, got anxious when he heard Catelyn’s words, implying she no longer wanted to

father had some prejudice against her, but he had never imagined it to be this bad. Catelyn never once attempted to bribe him; it was him who wanted

Ollie was disappointed in

opened so many good opportunities, but all of them turned sour as

said Catelyn had evil intentions! How could Cedrick be so

to resolve this, a hot

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

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