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 not

of discomfort which crossed his face and said coldly,

lie to you?” Mary said with a forced smile and

one thing Mary did not

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

such a trivial matter,” Horace

of Ashlyn’s mouth curved upwards as she said that. “Can I know what

instructed her previously. The nanny

not let Ashlyn know about

saw the meaningful glance which Mary had cast towards her. They had some chemistry as mother and daughter and Penelope knew that Mary wanted her to

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

she walked past the other three Berrys and was about to head

out what exactly was it that these three were trying to

was quick enough to stop her, “What’s there for you to see? She’s just a sick nanny. What if she passes the

scared of that,” Ashlyn pushed Mary

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