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.

Xanthe 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 in the hospital, and I have a younger brother who does. odd jobs for a living.”

or lie about her family. Maybe her background was worlds apart from the Russell family, but so what? Different circumstances shouldn’t give anyone the right to look down on

out a mocking

you’re deserving

have come to this point.

that Josie couldn’t decipher. “Then a divorce is

of time.”

Josie remained silent.

planted and nurtured by devoted gardeners. The sky had turned a deep shade, and

devoted cultivation, they were bound to be

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

to that on Dexter’s finger before. He had explained that the ring served as a means

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

to be non-toxic and safe to be consumed. So,

Her chest was trembling with mixed

the past, Josie harbored

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