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Chapter 109

Felicia received a call the minute she left the Lowen residence. The caller was her younger cousin, Nicolette Ashton. Why is she calling me today? She doesn't talk to me much in the first place.

She ignored it, and the call eventually auto-declined. To her surprise, Nicolette called again.

Felicia answered it reluctantly, “Yes, Nic. What's up?”

Nicolette was the youngest daughter of Felicia's second uncle, Leroy Ashton. She adored Gwendolyn and stuck to the latter like glue.

Consequently, Felicia disliked Nicolette. It did not help that Nicolette often referred to her as “the mistress' child.”

“Fels, it's my birthday today. Why aren't you here? Where's my present?”

So she's angling for a present. Felicia furrowed her brows in annoyance before replying flatly, “How old are you? Kids can't celebrate their birthdays. Did Grandpa allow you to hold a party?”

Michael believed in the virtue of frugality. As such, younger members of the Ashton family were not allowed to hold birthday parties. Felicia herself had never had a birthday party, though she was already twenty-three.


The thought filled Felicia with indignance. The socialites frequently gossiped about her, claiming that Michael disliked her.

Felicia's protests fell on deaf ears because these socialites had attended a party held by Gwendolyn for her eighteenth birthday.

Nicolette merely insisted, “I'm eighteen, Fels. I'm an adult now. Anyway, be here as soon as possible!”

With that, she hung up, and Felicia cursed out loud, “This brat! I can't believe she hung up on me. Where are her manners?”

Then she received an address from Nicolette.

Meanwhile, Gwendolyn sat beside Nicolette at the latter's party. Six years had passed, but her relatives hardly changed at all.

Her aunts wore blinding amounts of jewelry, while her uncles, rather unfortunately, developed beer bellies and thinning hair. Otherwise, they mostly looked the same.

Nicolette had always been close to Gwendolyn, and she made Gwendolyn promise to attend her eighteenth birthday party.

“You should eat more, Gwen. Look at how thin you are!” Nicolette prattled as she filled Gwendolyn's bowl with food.

Nicolette's mother, Francine, smiled. She mock-chastised her daughter, “What do you know, Nic? Your cousin's trying to maintain a figure. You're still young. We can't eat as much as you without worrying about our weight.”

With that said, Francine began filling her daughter's bowl with food. In truth, Gwendolyn was not eating less to watch her figure.

She lost her appetite after witnessing Lucas' rejection of Lucy's pleas. Lucy even went on her knees! I can't forget how sad she looked. I need to think of a way to help her.

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