Chapter 260 What Qualifications Do You Have?

On New Year’s Day, an unexpected visitor appeared. Josie received a text message from an unknown sender saying, ‘Meet me at the nearby park.”

Her heart skipped a beat as she tried to guess the purpose of the meeting. Dexter couldn’t accompany her as he was occupied with social obligations.

And it turned out to be Xanthe, who wanted to have a conversation with Josie in the park.

Xanthe lit a cigarette and stood in the wintry solitude, feeling lonely and cold. Her gaze was filled with disdain as she stared at Josie.

“Hi, Ms. Quorn. In case you didn’t know, my name is Josie,” she forced a smile.

Xanthe glanced at her from head to toe, extinguished her cigarette, and said, “Come take a walk with me.”

Though their relationship was strained, there was no pretense. Xanthe didn’t act superior or condescending, and their words and actions were on equal ground.

asked about Josie’s family, and she answered truthfully, “I’m an orphan. My stepmother works as a sanitation worker, my father is a vegetative patient

or lie about her family. Maybe her background was worlds apart from the Russell family, but so what? Different

out a

you’re deserving of

but since things have come to

revealing an elusive meaning that Josie couldn’t decipher. “Then a divorce is just

of time.”

Josie remained silent.

of Mason Garden, with fruit trees planted and nurtured by devoted gardeners. The

devoted cultivation, they were

her hand and plucked two grapes, her ring delicately grazing the fruit

before. He had explained that the ring served as a means of testing substances for potential poisoning, be it from smoking, drinking,

self-defense tool passed down through generations of the Russell family, signifying their formidable heritage. Xanthe

proved the fruits to be non-toxic and safe to be consumed. So, she handed one

Her chest was trembling with

the past, Josie harbored a peculiar

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