My Extraordinary Wife

She hastened to catch up with Ashlyn and blocked the latter’s path. With a crazed expression, she demanded, “Ashlyn, did you do it on purpose? What are you trying to do, huh?” She ruined my birthday party and deliberately invited all the big shots and stole my thunder. “You’re just trying to aggravate me. Since when do we share the same birthday?”

Ashlyn snickered. “You’re right. When have you, Mary, or Horace ever cared about how I’m doing? Of course we share the same birthday. When you were blowing out candles and happily counting your gifts, I was brushed off to the kitchen to eat your leftovers! Penelope, nobody in the Berry family remembers that we share the same birthday! I just gave you a small taste of what I have in store for you and you can’t even handle it already?”

Ashlyn couldn’t help but scorn when she thought of the suffering she had endured back when she was with the Berrys.

Penelope shook her head in exasperation. “You did it on purpose. You wanted to humiliate and retaliate against me!”

Ashlyn is such a scheming woman to have picked today out of all days. She’s despicable.

Penelope had been unsure of how she had managed to escape the private room. She had felt lost in a daze as the world spun around her, leaving her disoriented and confused.

When she reached the restroom and saw that Ashlyn was there too, all of her emotions—anger, indignation, hatred—came flooding out.

already the young lady of the Yates family, and yet I still have to live under the

was Ashlyn pretty and intelligent, but the boys that Penelope had crushes on would only

get into the best university,

always handed her

but Ashlyn’s mother had also done the same by stealing Mary’s place in the Berry

trying to walk

we were kids. Isn’t that enough? Why do you have to bully me on my birthday? Listen well, I’m the young lady of the Yates family, and you’ll never be able to measure up to me. You’re just a lowlife. No matter what you do, you

sentence, a crisp, loud slap could be

to finally

eyes in disbelief at Ashlyn. “You hit

she was no more than an insignificant speck of dust. “Consider that a wake-up call. I don’t want you

she was pressed down

were crossed behind

chilling water droplets on the sink were going to