The Princess and the Paupers

Chapter 40

Serena twigged it right away. If there was no comparison, no one would know how bad Arabella was and how great she was!

Martha was right. Let this country bumpkin have a taste of reality. She needed to know that Phillip was always the leader, and would never respect such narrow–minded people!

“Don’t bother me for lunch.”

Arabella ordered the servant who was working on her way upstairs, locked herself in her room, and hit the hay!

She was really tired because she stayed up all night writing, and fell asleep as soon as she lay down on her pillow. When Kenneth and Louisa woke up and heard their darling daughter was skipping lunch, they immediately summoned the chef, “Did breakfast not sit well with Bella?”

Daniel felt wronged, “Ms. Bennett left because of what Serena said, not because of the breakfast…”

“Serena?” Kenneth and Louisa were taken aback, then hastily asked, “What did Serena say?”

to take her to see Phillip, but

and Louisa exchanged glances and

tattle to her parents over such a small matter. She was already a grown woman but acted like a child refusing to eat.

pitiful face on the outside, pretending to be

my sister. just asked her if she could take me with her…Phillip missed me and has been texting me to visit him. I couldn’t go

and immediately took out

so I thought

the truth to be this. It seemed they read too much into it. How could Serena compete with Bella

made a

woke up, the clock was already pointing to one in the afternoon.

opened the door, she heard a noise downstairs. “Romeo, you brought so many gifts for Bella last night, and today you brought us these gifts… Thank you so much, but no need for those gifts next time. We’re all family, no need for gifts. You even prepared gifts for Bella to meet your grandfather… We can’t possibly accept this! We’ve had the gifts prepared, and we can’t cost you money this time!”

when

Romeo was here?

they agree to meet at the front door?

he

is my fiancée, I should prepare her meeting