Life After Prison

Chapter 36

Felicia’s expression became exceedingly ugly. Those projects did not matter to her at all, and all she wanted was the dowry.

The old lady looked at Felicia. “My dear Felicia, I’m not asking you to reject Edward immediately now, am I? You can drag it out a little longer while we figure out the relationship between Severin and Henry. If their relationship turns out to be very good and Severin can help us secure the Liberty City project, wouldn’t you accept him as your son-in-law? If their relationship isn’t all that impressive, then you can always try to persuade Diane to marry Edward. If she still won’t listen, then there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“I understand now.”

Felicia nodded and was roughly able to grasp the old lady’s intentions.

for a while and then said, “Don’t worry, Grandma. Diane was only stubborn back. then because of her reluctance to part with her baby, not Severin. Now that we’re willing to welcome her back home again, I’m sure she’ll

we want to persuade the two of them to break things off with each other, we’ll only do so later. My priority right now is to find out if Severin can help us secure the project! If he can’t, you can always fall back on persuading her into getting together with Edward!”

a sly old fox. She keeps all those options open so she’ll get the best out of whatever

and Diane finished their meal, they

feel free to seek me out if you ever need my help in the

to give me a ring

roll her eyes at him. “What else would Mister Henry need your help for? It’d be better for you not to trouble him!”

know. Severin here is no ordinary

Dlane to the front desk and said to the beautiful receptionist, “Did Lucy and the others bring the

a big red-and-white woven bag, which she