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

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

lie to you?” Mary said with a forced

leave quickly! That was the one thing Mary did not say

couple was hiding something

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

yourself over such a trivial matter,” Horace said quickly

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

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

could not let Ashlyn

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 reply. “Oh,

still a nurse after all. Her cough sounded serious and there’s phlegm in her throat. Based on my preliminary assessment, it’s not an

past the other three Berrys and was about to head

was it that these three were trying

to see? She’s just a sick nanny. What if

not scared of that,” Ashlyn pushed Mary away and

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