CHAPTER 537 THE HARVEY FAMILY HAS RAISED MS. HARVEY UP LIKE A PIG
Wilda noticed that she was being too hasty, which might invoke Shane’s wrath. She then smiled sheepishly at him, “The flower arrangement last night was gorgeous. I wanted her to teach me how to do that.”
“Do you know how to do that?” Shane shot a surprised look at Madeline. In his mind, he thought that all Madeline knew was to threaten and entrap others.
“I know a thing or two. If you are so eager to learn, Ms. Havey, I am more than happy to teach you. There is an empty vase in this room as we speak.”
“I’ll go get some flowers,” When Thomas heard what Madeline had said, he immediately rushed out to fetch some flowers. He did not give Wilda a chance to eat her words.
When Thomas ran off, so did Mackenzie and Colton.
A few minutes later, the three of them each carried a bunch of colorful flowers and reentered the room grandly.
Madeline’s lips curled up while Shane looked like he was holding off his anger. On the other hand, Wilda had a desolate and resigned look on her face. Just as she was about to think of some excuse to leave the room, Shane pointed at the flowers and said, “You’re quite hot-tempered lately, and I think it would do you a lot of good to learn how to arrange flowers and meditate.”
Wilda’s heart sank. She initially thought that Shane would know about Wilbur’s intention to marry her off to Noah, but from the look of things, it seemed that he was in the dark about this. He even criticized her for being too hot-tempered based on how much feelings she had toward Noah.
She never thought about this carefully, but it was only normal that Shane would never allow her precious granddaughter to be a mistress and third wheel in another couple’s relationship.
“I got it, grandpa.” Wilda sat down obediently by the table, but her eyes which were glued to Madeline were full of threat.
Madeline should know what was good for herself and just simply taught the basics. In Wilda’s eyes, Madeline was just a maid who could not be better than her in terms of arranging flowers.
“I will do it first. Can you follow my steps?” Madeline asked with her brows raised.
Wilda saw that Madeline knew what she was doing, so she nodded.
Then, Madeline began to cut the stalks while Thomas and the others assisted her. Shane shot a look at Wilda, which drove Wilda to help Madeline too, albeit a little unwillingly.
However, Wilda grew up in a well-off environment. In the past when she was learning how to arrange flowers, those stalks had been prepared beforehand and there was not much snipping and cutting to do. Therefore, it only took a while before her hand began to have blisters.
She wanted to act pitiful in front of Shane, but Madeline saw through her and prevented that from happening, “Are you hurt?”
Mackenzie shook her head and commented, “Your hand is hurting already? We’re just getting started. You must be kidding, right?”
Wilda, who was about to complain, could only shut up when she heard that.
It took her great effort to cut all those stalks, and Madeline began to arrange the flowers in the vase. Wilda had no patience to watch her because she truly believed that Madeleine did not know how to do this.
However, half an hour later, an artistic flower basket was born. It shocked Wilda.
She never thought that Madeline really knew what she was doing!
Wilda did not want to look bad in front of her, so she vowed to create an even more marvelous flower basket now!
However, those stalks which had been finely cut had all been used up. She had to cut the raw stalks once again.
“My hand hurts so much. I don’t want to cut this anymore,” When Mackenzie tossed aside her scissors, Shane immediately waved at her, “Come play with your grandpa, will you?”
Then, as if on cue, the three kids were all gone.
Madeline rubbed her waist as she offered with a smile, “Let me boil you some tea, Mr. Harvey.”
Shane was happy to hear that.
Wilda was the only one who was left managing those flowers. She wanted to summon her maids to come in to help her, but that would only leave an impression in Shane’s mind that she was not a resilient woman who could endure hardships.
She had a premonition that if she were to complain about her agony now, Shane would take this opportunity to rip her apart using Noah as an excuse. He would then forbid her to get close to Noah again.
Therefore, she reckoned that she had to endure this now.
More than an hour later, her stalks were finally all prepared. However, after putting them together in a basket, it was not as attractive as the one Madeline had created.
“Hey, you can’t even make a nice-looking one even if you’re copying mommy’s flowers. You’re really something else,” Before Wilda could destroy her own flower basket, Thomas came over and commented.
Wilda was so furious right now since Shane was seemingly looking down on her too.
“I’m just not so familiar with it compared to last time, so I needed some practice. I am going to do this seriously now,” Wilda found an excuse.
Madeline glanced at her and said, “Ms. Harvey, if you want to copy mine, you’ve snipped your stalks wrongly, do you know that? You need to do them again.”
Wilda felt that her blisters were about to pop on her skin, and she initially wanted to ask Madeline to help her, but Colton snagged her away before she could do that.
Poor Wilda could only continue to hold back her pain as she continued to ship the stalks.
The whole afternoon, Wilda continued to cut and refine her stalks and rearrange them, but her creation never topped Madeline’s. Only when the other maids were asking her to come down for dinner she could finally produce a somewhat decent rendition.
“If you have time on your hands, go attend some classes on flower arrangement,” When Shane was going downstairs with the kids, he could not help but give her a comment.
Wilda was so indignant that she wanted to cry.
Thomas did not forget to take another dig at her, “Is Ms. Harvey someone who knows how to enjoy herself every day and not learn anything? Zeke, it would be so nice if you are born into their family. You can be as merry and relaxed as a pig.”
“I don’t want to be as stupid as a pig,” Mackenzie made a funny face at Thomas.
Shane frowned, “Every child of the Harvey family needs to attend many lessons to learn different things.”
“Then she must be the most stupid one, right? Her academic result must be the worst out of everyone,” Although they were disappearing out of sight, Thomas’ voice was always loud. Wilda had heard what he just said.
Madeline almost went crazy for stifling her laughter, “Don’t mind the kids, Ms. Harvey. They don’t know what they are talking about most of the time.”
Wilda raised her arm as she was about to hit Madeline, but at the same time, Madeline was tidying up the tools, and she was holding a pair of scissors too. She raised her hand and it met with Wilda’s palm, which left a cut on it. Wilda was fortunate that she did not bring down her hand with immense force, and she had to thank Madeline for her kindness too, or else the scissors could even cut through her palm.
“What the hell are you doing? You’ve hurt me! Do you want to die?” The scissors somehow slit through the blisters on Wilda’s palms, which sent a wave of excruciating pain to her.
“Drop dead now!” Wilda could not control her anger anymore as she was trying to snatch Madeline’s scissors and aim them at her face.
Noah just happened to pass by and saw this scene, and his face was so cold that it was unbelievable. He swooped in and placed a device on Wilda’s leg, which sent her crashing forward. Her scissors stabbed into one of Shane’s favorite wood statues, and her jaw was swollen because she had hit it so hard on something.
“Ms. Harvey, what do you think you’re doing?” Noah’s cold voice sounded behind her.
Wilda immediately became frantic, and she quickly stood up and pointed at Madeline, “It’s her fault! She purposely stabbed my hand with scissors!”
Madeline said nothing to that. She wanted to see how Wilda was going to make a fool out of herself.
“Ms. Harvey, you can’t just throw blame around like that. I’ve live-streamed what happened just now and it was clear that you wanted to cut Madeline’s face.” Canary felt sorry for Madeline who was getting targeted by Wilda, so he waved at her, “Pretty lady, come to me. If you’re with me, I can guarantee that she won’t hurt you ever again.”
Madeline felt awkward as she knew that Canary was asking her to be his maid. However, it sounded wrong coming from his mouth.
Noah was immediately angered by what he heard, “I never really think about it, but it seems that everyone in the Harvey family is a bully.”
“You’re right, they’re too atrocious. I almost got harassed by Ms. Harvey just now too,” Lone Wolf casually strolled into the room without anyone noticing, and he had a disgusted look on his face when he stared at Wilda.
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