Ashlyn shot a glance at Penelope, who was feeling smug that she had exposed her step-sister. With a frosty glint in her eyes, Ashlyn said nonchalantly, “I never knew that you were so eager for me to start work.”

Penelope let out a scornful snort, “It’s too bad, you can’t get a job.”

Ashlyn twisted her lips into an unfathomable smile and there was an icy look in her crescent eyes which also exuded an inexplicable sense of haughtiness. “Don’t worry about that, Mr. Haddock will come and beg me eventually.”

“Ashlyn, are you daydreaming? Did you just say Mr. Haddock was gonna beg?” Penelope burst out laughing as if that was the funniest joke she had ever heard.

Horace and Mary were both ashen-faced.

None of them uttered a word.

Ashlyn looked at that family with an ambiguous smirk on her face and turned her back towards them.

She had already told them. It was up to them to choose whether to believe her or not.

At the very moment when she turned around and was about to walk away, Ashlyn heard someone coughing violently.

She stopped in her tracks and cast a sharp glance towards the stairs. “Who’s coughing?”

nervously, “It’s just the nanny who’s not

momentary look of discomfort which crossed his face and said coldly, “If it’s really the

Mary said with a forced smile and

the one

was hiding something from their

and remained unfazed as she said, “Since the nanny is not feeling well and Penelope is a nurse, why don’t we get Penelope to go upstairs and check on her? Penelope, let’s go together, I wanna see for myself how proficient a surgical nurse from the

over such a trivial matter,” Horace said

curved upwards as she said that. “Can I know what

recalled what Mary had instructed her previously. The nanny

could not let Ashlyn know

and daughter and Penelope knew

still a nurse after all. Her cough sounded serious and there’s phlegm in her throat. Based on my preliminary

past the other three Berrys and was about to head

it that these three were trying to

to see? She’s just a sick nanny. What if she passes the virus to

Ashlyn pushed Mary

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