CHAPTER 101

  She was dressed neatly, simple yet elegant before her father arrived with the guests and she moved to the sitting room to join them. They discussed about the benefits of their marriages while making both of them sit through the whole discussion without being asked if they liked whatever was going on or had something to say.

  The two adults kept ranting on about how their relationship would become a source of envy to others without specifying the people they were talking about in particular. Finally, innocent Tom came to the picture and what they kept saying broke her heart, he was really hated by his family without knowing all they had been plotting.

  They went on to run about how he was only a stain to the family’s blood line and how Joseph has to fight for things he naturally owned. The moment she was fed up with the insults, she wanted to skip but they were so swift at changing the topic that she only gave it a rest.