Chapter 140

“Look, I’m wide awake now that you’re here. Let’s chew the fat, shall we?”

Madelyn was confused. “Chew the fat? What do

you mean?”

Margaret patted her thigh. “What? You don’t know what that means? Chew the fat means have a chat.”

Madelyn nodded thoughtfully. “What would you like to chat about?”

Then, Margaret said quietly, “I overheard a few things when I went out earlier. I can guarantee that your father is going to have two more children in three years. You’re going to have a little brother very soon.”

and was intrigued by her accent. She realized that the way Margaret spoke was open and direct. However, she did not pay much attention to what Margaret was telling her

affairs with different women, but he would never want any of them to have his

woman in her late twenties once came to their home and caused a scene with a baby in her

time that something like that

there was a faint smell of burned charcoal. Margaret was snoring loudly,

a while, and the sun had risen by the time she woke up. Madelyn got out of bed carefully without waking Margaret up. She covered herself with the quilt and went outside

thick layer of snow outside. Her wool slippers were already dried. She put them on and felt a bit warmer. Then, she tiptoed around the backdoor, ensuring no one

and the maid was cleaning up the mess from last night. All the

and went inside, only to be

and

to clean herself up while avoiding the wound. As she tried to wipe the marks on her neck, she could not help but recall how the two

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