Chapter 260 What Qualifications Do You Have?

On New Year’s Day, an unexpected visitor appeared. Josie received a text message from an unknown sender saying, ‘Meet me at the nearby park.”

Her heart skipped a beat as she tried to guess the purpose of the meeting. Dexter couldn’t accompany her as he was occupied with social obligations.

And it turned out to be Xanthe, who wanted to have a conversation with Josie in the park.

Xanthe lit a cigarette and stood in the wintry solitude, feeling lonely and cold. Her gaze was filled with disdain as she stared at Josie.

“Hi, Ms. Quorn. In case you didn’t know, my name is Josie,” she forced a smile.

Xanthe glanced at her from head to toe, extinguished her cigarette, and said, “Come take a walk with me.”

Though their relationship was strained, there was no pretense. Xanthe didn’t act superior or condescending, and their words and actions were on equal ground.

Xanthe asked about Josie’s family, and she answered truthfully, “I’m an orphan. My stepmother works as a sanitation worker, my father is a vegetative patient in the hospital, and I have a younger brother who does. odd jobs for a living.”

background was worlds apart from the Russell family, but so what? Different circumstances shouldn’t give anyone the right to look down on

out a mocking laugh. “Very

you think you’re

It’s clear that I don’t, but since things have come to

smiled, revealing an elusive meaning that Josie couldn’t decipher. “Then

of time.”

Josie remained silent.

gardeners. The sky had turned a deep

were bound

stretched out her hand and plucked two grapes, her ring delicately grazing the fruit without leaving a trace of

the ring served as a means of testing substances for potential poisoning, be it from smoking,

self-defense tool passed down through generations of the Russell family, signifying their formidable heritage. Xanthe was worried that the grapes might have been sprayed with pesticides by the

So, she handed one to

grape. Her chest was

weight of the past, Josie harbored a peculiar admiration for the woman standing before

her.

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