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?”

“It’s just the nanny who’s

the momentary look of discomfort which crossed his face and said

lie to you?” Mary said with a forced smile and continued, “You’re so busy that you

was the one thing Mary did not say

obvious that the couple was

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

don’t have to worry yourself over such a trivial matter,” Horace said quickly

as she said that.

instructed her previously. The nanny isn’t ill at all,

not let Ashlyn know

which Mary had cast towards her. They had some chemistry as mother and daughter and Penelope knew that Mary wanted her to reply. “Oh, I gave

sounded serious and there’s phlegm in her throat. Based on my preliminary assessment, it’s not an ordinary flu but

the other

exactly was it that these three were trying to hide from

Mary was quick enough to stop her, “What’s there for you to see?

that,” Ashlyn pushed Mary away

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