The Day I Stopped Waiting Was the Day He Started Begging novel Chapter 3

The three of them entered The Yates Manor together.

Seeing Madeline arrive with York and Felicity, Seraphina was a little surprised, but a deep smile reached her eyes.-

Felicity had a fragile constitution and couldn't handle drafts, so Seraphina had the staff take her upstairs to change clothes.

Since the three of them had arrived early and most of the guests hadn't shown up yet, Seraphina personally handed each of them a cup of honey grapefruit tea. "I was just about to call Maddy. I didn't expect you all to arrive together."

"We ran into each other outside."

York answered casually.

He hated sweet things. Frowning in distaste, he completely ignored the honey grapefruit tea resting beside his hand.

Seraphina scolded him playfully. "You're so difficult. Look at your wife, she's so easy to please. With you busy out of town these past two years, I would have died of boredom if Maddy hadn't kept me company."

York actually turned to look over.

Madeline had been completely quiet since entering the house. She sat off to the side, sipping her honey grapefruit tea.

Her eyes were cast downward in perfect submission, looking every bit the gentle, compliant wife.

York flicked his cigarette ash, yet his mind flashed back to the times she would grow furious from embarrassment, biting recklessly into his neck with total abandon.

Absolutely vicious.

He looked at Madeline with a half-smile. "Look at what you're saying. Ms. Monroe is famously ladylike."

In the past, whenever he said things like that, Madeline would always get angry.

Now, however, she merely held her tea, calmly looking down at her phone.

Seraphina knew her son's terrible attitude. She turned, taking Madeline's hand with a sigh. "When York first decided to come back, I wanted to tell you. But since it wasn't finalized, I thought it best to keep it quiet. Thank God he's finally back."

"Two years ago, when he wanted to transfer to San Francisco, I was totally against it. What kind of marriage is long-distance? But he's finally back. No matter how big the problem was, two years is enough time to move past it. Maddy, you two need to make this work."

Madeline replied, "These past two years have been perfectly fine."

Madeline closed the video. She looked up to see Felicity looking incredibly aggrieved, while York lifted his heavy gaze to stare at her with an unreadable expression.

"Since when did Ms. Monroe become an expert in tea-tasting?"

As soon as he spoke, Felicity bit her lip. "York, I didn't..."

The moment she said his name in that pleading tone, Madeline locked her phone screen and drawled, "Relax. York wasn't calling you a pick-me, and I didn't mean anything by it either. It's a competitive world out there. I'm just learning some new social skills, that's all."

Her relationship with Felicity had never been good. Felicity loved to act innocent, and Madeline was simply too lazy to play along.

When she first married into the family, she had fought with York multiple times over Felicity.

The most explosive argument happened when Felicity got drunk and insisted York come pick her up, even begging Seraphina to call him.

When Madeline found out, she went to pick Felicity up herself. In front of a whole crowd of people, she added Felicity on social media, smiling sweetly as she announced that she was the one using York's phone and that Felicity should message her if she needed anything.

That very night, York pinned her to the bed to punish her. He relentlessly teased her, calling her a "jealous little thing" and a "vinegar jar" while kissing her breathless over and over again...