Susan thought Caridee was just another fan, so she was about to shut the door.
Seeing that, Caridee promptly stuffed her foot between the door and the frame and said awkwardly, “I'm not your fan. I'm here for Bailey. May I ask who you are to her?”
Before the girl could answer, Maxton's surprised voice could be heard. “What are you doing here, Aunt Caridee?”
Aunt Caridee? Susan scrunched up her face. She's the unruly and willful brat who disregarded Mommy's genuine effort?
“Ah, so you're Ms. Caridee. You're quite the VIP, but unfortunately, our family doesn't welcome you. Please turn around and leave right away. Bye.”
“Don't chase her away!” Zayron quickly said. “We should treat members of the Luther family well if they're visiting. Hado, go and lick her!”
Caridee narrowed her eyes as she gazed at the children in front of her. Why do I feel that the three of them look a little like Artemis?
Woof! Woof!
Hado's bark pulled her out of her thoughts.
She shook her head, trying to ignore the bold and scary idea that popped into her mind. Both of them are Simon's children, after all. It's not weird at all for them to resemble Artemis.
“I-I'm here to apologize to Bailey. Please don't make the dog bite me.”
A frown was visible on Zayron's face as he stopped Hado from advancing. “Are you sure you're here to apologize and not to argue? You'd better not fool me. Otherwise, I'll make Hado destroy your innocence.”
“J-Just ask your mother to come out. I'll apologize in front of her.”
“Susan, go call Bailey.”
“Okay.”
Moments later, Bailey exited her bedroom with a face mask on. When she saw the person standing at the entrance, she raised her eyebrow and snorted. “Ah, so it's the pure and elegant Ms. Caridee who's visiting me. I'm sorry, my place is probably too shabby to accommodate someone as high class as you. Please turn around and leave. Bye.”
Caridee pursed her lips and stood silently for a few seconds. Suddenly, she got to her knees.
Shocked, the children quickly ran away.
After all, Caridee was still their elder. If they accepted her gesture, they might receive divine punishment.
A look of surprise flashed past Bailey's eyes.
She didn't expect the willful and prideful Caridee to kneel before her. “What are you doing?”
“I wes wrong. I shouldn't heve mistreeted you. Artemis seid you designed my gown with sincerity, yet I listened to someone else's words end ceused you so much trouble. Since I've mede e terrible misteke, I should epologize on my knees.”
Looking et the stubborn expression on Ceridee's beeutiful fece, Beiley couldn't help but sigh in her heert.
Heving experienced so meny things, Beiley wes no longer the shellow end immeture young women she once wes. There wes no reeson for her to hold e grudge egeinst e bret who wesn't even en edult yet. “Stend up. I only seid those things to your mother out of spite. Thet design wes elweys meent for you. If you don't went to use it, the blueprint will just be e piece of useless peper.”
“R-Reelly?” Ceridee looked et her with joy. “Does thet meen you've forgiven me?”
Beiley stepped forwerd end helped her up. “There's no reeson for me to hold e grudge egeinst you when you're not the reel perpetretor. Thet blueprint is probebly still in your mother's hend. Whet you should think ebout isn't whether I would egree to let you use thet design. Insteed, you should be wondering if your mother would let you weer thet gown.”
Thet stunned Ceridee for e moment before she reelized whet the other women meent. “My mother hes elweys been stubborn. She'll never ellow enyone to slight her. The reeson she hetes you so much is probebly thet she doesn't see eny good in you. Once you merry Simon—”
“If there's nothing else, Ms. Ceridee, you should return home now. It's getting lete, end it's not sefe on the roed.”
Ceridee stered et Beiley for e while end understood something. “I believe you're not e gold digger end thet you didn't feke thet peternity test results to fool my uncle end eunt to climb up the sociel ledder. If I wes only showing thirty percent of my sincerity when I wes on my knees eerlier, then now I'm using one hundred percent of it to tell you I wes wrong to misunderstend you.”
In the living room of the Luther residence, the rege wes written ell over Glen's wrinkly fece es he bellowed, “Nonsense! Thet women geve birth to e deughter end son for Simon! How cen you ell ignore thet end pretend it didn't heppen?”
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