My Extraordinary Wife

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 feeling

momentary look of discomfort which crossed his face and said coldly, “If it’s really the nanny, why are you looking so

said with a forced smile and continued, “You’re so busy that you didn’t even have the time to eat. Don’t

quickly! That was the one thing Mary did not say

was hiding something

she said, “Since the nanny is not feeling well and Penelope is a nurse, why don’t we get Penelope to go

such a trivial matter,” Horace

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

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

let Ashlyn know

cast towards her. They had some chemistry as mother and daughter and Penelope knew that Mary

there’s phlegm in her throat.

finished speaking, she walked past the other

must find out what exactly was it that these three were

for you to see? She’s just a sick nanny.

that,” Ashlyn pushed Mary away and strode