Mr. Kane Got Blacklisted (Stella and Keegan) novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282

There was a tradition in the town where a family would hold a big banquet with friends and relatives once their child was accepted into college. The guests would also give the kid their best regards for their future.

That was why when Stella was accepted into Trinity University, Rainee hosted a banquet with eighty-eight tables at their old home. She did not charge their relatives and friends a single cent. It did not matter if any of them made snarky remarks toward her and Stella because they were jealous. She still boasted her daughter’s achievements to everyone she saw.

Lydia, on the other hand, started telling everyone that her son was having a celebration the second his high school admission letter arrived in the mail. She even asked the guests to donate what they could to have a feast. However, when the time came, they found out that Lydia had only set up a few tattered tables on the front porch. She then asked everyone to enter the house to eat.

When they entered her house, they discovered that the decorations were lacking. Even a funeral looked nicer than Lydia’s place. It was clear that she did not want to spend any money. And, she only cooked up a massive pot of stew to satisfy their hunger.

Lydia had used the leftover radishes and cabbages that their shop could not sell in the stew. There were only a few pieces of meat in it too. She had received more than 100 thousand dollars from the donations, yet she had the audacity to serve a pot of stew. It was an embarrassing sight since they obviously could do better. Aside from Albert Jewell, Lydia’s family was the second richest in the Jewell family.

She owned tens of acres of orchards and earned millions of dollars a year alone. Her husband was a very hard-working and capable man who worked as a warehouse manager in Albert’s company. He made hundreds of thousands per year. Yet, even with this much money, their family still asked for donations from their friends and relatives.

So, when Lydia told everyone that her son was accepted into Calton University, no one said a thing because they knew that she was trying to cheat them of their money. Seeing that no one was congratulating their family, Lydia took it as them being jealous rather than feeling embarrassed for herself.

She glanced around the place, and her gaze fell upon the fourth daughter-in-law of the Jewell family. “Elaine! How did Hayden do in his second exam?”