Chapter 157

A stock clerk pushing a cart interrupted us, “Excuse me, coming through.”

1 tugged Christine back and asked, “What were you saying?”

“Do you think Margaret could be Albert’s biological daughter?” Christine’s eyes sparkled with the thrill of gossip.

I frowned. “That seems a bit far-fetched. Margaret’s even older than Bryant by two years.”

Even if it were an affair, it wouldn’t have started that early, right?

“Why not?” Christine dismissed my doubt with a wave, excitedly diving into high society scandals. “You know how messy these rich people can get. Marrying one, keeping a few mistresses on the side, isn’t that business as usual?”

“But still…” I hesitated, “If Margaret was Albert’s flesh and blood, and considering how much Timothy despised Margaret, why didn’t Albert tell Timothy?”

That way, Timothy would have been kinder to his granddaughter.

at were

he wouldn’t just sit back and watch Bryant get involved with

nodded, not wanting to delve deeper, but Christine suddenly said, “No,

poked her forehead playfully and handed her a bag

any case, next month would come soon enough. Once I got the divorce papers, Bryar and I would be worlds apart, let alone Albert and Margaret. It wouldn’t

for its local comfort food, with Christine and me

through the awkwardness and asked,

to tag

strained relationship between Steven and Christine, Mark

on a blind date. His family is

marriage.

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momentarily stunned, feeling a sense of inevitable anger, though not completely surprised.

was doomed from the

much like mine with

Timothy, I would never have dreamed of marrying into a family like the Ferguson

front of Mark, I didn’t try to

topic. “Jane,

design contest and won first place,

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