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?”

the nanny who’s not feeling

his face and said coldly, “If it’s really the nanny,

matter what, why would he lie to you?” Mary said with a forced smile and

leave quickly! That was the one thing Mary

was obvious that the couple was hiding something

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,

to worry yourself over such a trivial matter,” Horace said quickly

as she said that. “Can I know what

was momentarily stunned and recalled what Mary had instructed her previously. The nanny

she could not let

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, I gave her some lozenges and flu

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

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

find out what exactly was it that

to see? She’s just a sick

scared of that,” Ashlyn pushed Mary

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