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

mocking laugh.

think you’re deserving

things have come to this point. I will strive

an elusive meaning that Josie couldn’t decipher. “Then a divorce is

of time.”

Josie remained silent.

Garden, with fruit trees planted and nurtured by devoted gardeners. The sky had turned

were bound

her ring delicately grazing

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

generations of the Russell family, signifying their formidable heritage. Xanthe was worried that the grapes might have been sprayed with pesticides by

to be non-toxic and safe to be consumed. So, she handed one to Josie. “Grapes at

grape. Her chest was trembling with mixed

the weight of the past, Josie harbored a peculiar admiration

her.

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