Ex husband's Plea for Forgiveness

Chapter 128 A Rejected Invitation

Queena had made the decision not only to mend her relationship with her daughter-in-law, but to strengthen it. Melinda shared the same goal, and the next few days saw the two women bonding over the littlest things.

They grew close enough for the older woman to joke once or twice that Melinda had become her sworn daughter, with Jonas coming a close second to her in terms of Queena’s affection.

One of the activities they often enjoyed together was shopping, then later sitting at cafes. Yulia had done her best to thwart their mother-daughter outings, but was always shut down by Queena.

At first she thought the Gu madam was only acting on her feelings towards her husband’s bastard, but seeing the way she interacted with Melinda gave Yulia a sense of foreboding. Queena was becoming Melinda’s ally.

What started as malicious jealousy on her part became a paranoia that ate at her greedy heart, and she soon found herself scrambling to contact Emily so they could do something about it.

To her disgust, she couldn’t reach the actress’ phone no matter how many times she called.

This went on for a couple of days, until Yulia finally found a report on the internet saying Emily was off to some remote location in the mountains for a shoot.

She must be in some place without reception, which was why Yulia’s calls couldn’t get through. She threw her phone on the bed and stomped downstairs to cool her head.

She found Nelson, Melinda, and Queena in the living room as she descended. Her sister-in-law was holding out a piece of clothing to her grandfather, and Queena said something that made all three of them laugh. The scene only stoked the fire of envy that burned within Yulia, and she strode over to where they stood to join in on their conversation. "You seem to be having fun," she said as she approached, and her tone effectively hinted at what she was feeling. "What do you have here?" It was a coat with exquisite embroidery.

In her desperation for attention, coupled with the riot of ugly emotions that ran rampant in her heart, Yulia yanked the clothing from Nelson’s hands with more force than necessary.

The fabric was ripped.

She stared at the piece of clothing with horror. An awkward silence fell into the room for a couple of beats.

Then the two elders burst into action simultaneously, Nelson abruptly pulling the clothing back to him, and Queena turning to Yulia in visible anger.

"You—"

Before she could start berating Yulia, however, Melinda had come in between them and put a reassuring hand on her mother-in-law’s shoulder. Yulia turned away bitterly.

Nelson was glaring at her granddaughter. This coat was supposed to be a present, and he hadn’t even had a chance to wear it yet, but this rude, foolish girl just appeared out of nowhere and ruined it.

"Grandpa," Melinda said, her tone gentle. "I have been looking at embroidery projects recently, but I never got to actually doing it.

Would you mind if I make an experiment of my skills using your coat?"

She smiled at the old man as she reached for the piece of clothing. He let her take it.

Once again Melinda was salvaging the situation, and doing it with grace and class! Although he was still feeling sullen, Nelson would never think of ruining her efforts by staying cross.

"All right, you can do whatever you want with it. But be sure it turns out beautifully, or I will be very unhappy."

her a conniving little smile then, to show her that he knew what she was

and only nodded. Beside them, Queena was sporting a pleased little smile herself, feeling rather proud at how her

her head in shame, and nursed her fury

"Sir, Madam, the post has arrived." He handed various envelopes to the two, mostly invitations to parties

to Nelson, and the others

can take care of those for me," he told Gavin. "You know what

of the envelopes, and was reading through its contents. It was from Emily, an invitation to a

postscript saying that she missed Queena and apologized for being so busy with her projects that

wore a little smile on her face

gaze then drifted to Yulia, who was glaring at the stack of invitations with obvious avarice.

was from Yulia and Emily, and felt a sense of security

please refuse this invitation for me as well," she instructed, handing the post over to the butler with

as it passed

that she had worried about what might happen if Queena decided to spend some time

after all. Melinda feared that the past few weeks of her gaining her mother-in-law’s favor would all go to waste once

one. Yulia had also seen who sent the invitation, and could not believe she just witnessed a swift and firm refusal from

Emily to end Melinda’s recent days of bliss. She had to talk to the

night, and both of them were in a very foul mood. It would seem

me you were going to disappear to some godforsaken

gone, that bitch Melinda had been sucking up to Queena? And now she’s successfully gained her

Why was Yulia laying the blame on her? How was she supposed to know that things would turn out

south for them and all that brat did was complain. "Are you saying this is all my fault?" she said coldly, and

Emily heaved a long sigh of

to

she made

There was no mistaking the shift of her affections, and Emily felt a small burst

busy lately, Aunt

"Quite."

when you’ll be free. We haven’t seen each other for such a long time.

the mountains. I was there for a shoot. I’m sure you will like my

when she mentioned her present, but there was

to her on the spot. "Aunt Queena, I’ve heard something really interesting along the grapevine. Can I share it with

it?" Queena finally spoke, although her tone indicated that she didn’t care much at

few days ago, and happened upon a little skirmish among the staff. Apparently there was someone who was trying to prevent a story from making its

that it was about a couple of writers, a man and a woman, both married. They were collaborating on a new book, and as such were spending a

entering a hotel together, and some source said that they were, in fact, meeting up in

that Melinda was working on a new book with Kent, and she was aware

understand being a writer isn’t such an

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