The Best Revenge It Wasn't Even Your Child novel Chapter 657

Gold was valuable, but Lorinda figured the intricate detailing on the piece made it worth even more.

She needed to know exactly how much this thing cost.

The price tag would reveal exactly how much weight Lanny held in Lance's heart.

But she wasn't an appraiser, and after scouring the internet for ages, she couldn't find a match.

Blocking Catherine from seeing the post, she uploaded it to her social media, begging the internet for a price check.

"Stop playing on your phone, dinner's ready. Go get Harrell."

Catherine called out as she set the table.

Lorinda tucked her phone away. "On it."

She turned toward the yard to call Harrell and Jasper inside.

The mosquitoes in Eldervale were brutal at dusk. Harrell was currently chasing Jasper around with a bottle of child-safe bug spray.

The little boy’s chubby arms and legs were completely unscathed.

But Harrell’s own neck and arms were covered in red, swollen bites.

"Do you have any bug bite cream?"

Handing Jasper over to Lorinda, Harrell turned to ask Catherine.

"I do."

In the corner of the yard, Susan had carved out a small patch to grow vegetables.

Every time she went out to water or weed, she’d get eaten alive by mosquitoes, so she always kept a couple of tubes of ointment on hand.

Catherine grabbed one and handed it to him. "Need me to help you put it on?"

The moment the words left her mouth, a sudden silence fell over the room.

Carrying Lanny out of the sunroom, Lance stopped dead in his tracks, his dark, heavy gaze locking onto them.

Lorinda, who had been crouching down at eye level with Jasper, looked up at Catherine's offer.

"Well—"

Harrell had a few bites on the back of his neck that he couldn't quite reach.

He was just about to say yes when a sudden chill ran down his spine.

"No need!"

"She arrived a couple of days ago," he confirmed with a nod.

"Working at the branch office?" she pressed.

Knowing Sophia's personality, she should have sought Catherine out the second she arrived in town.

Lance’s dagger-like gaze slashed across Harrell’s face, leaving the doctor feeling as though he’d just been slapped.

"Yeah, it was about time she came back to work."

His tone was perfectly relaxed, betraying nothing. "The company has been swamped lately, otherwise I wouldn't have called her back. She’s been working overtime since she got in."

"Oh," Catherine murmured. No wonder Sophia hadn't reached out—she was probably too busy.

"Didn't Sophia go back when you and Adelina were getting married, and then just stay there?"

Lorinda forcefully steered the conversation back to Adelina.

The bubbling broth sent plumes of steam into the air, but it did nothing to warm the sudden chill over the table.

To be precise, everyone except Lance felt the temperature drop.

As the instigator, Lorinda was just stubbornly forcing the issue.