The Contracted Ever After (Cordelia and Ronan) novel Chapter 169

On the day after Christmas, once lunch was over, Adrian and Kendra showed up. Adrian behaved humbly and respectfully, while Kendra kept eyeing Ronan's luxurious mansion.

"Mom, I'm here to see you. Actually, I got back yesterday but the house was all locked up. I figured you might be with Della. This is my girlfriend, Kendra," Adrian introduced Kendra to Shelley.

Adrian scanned the whole mansion but didn't spot Ronan. Cordelia wasn't downstairs either.

Shelley didn't take a shine to Kendra. She thought the girl was a bit too flashy for her taste. She wasn't into girls of that sort. Moreover, Kendra's gaze wandered around, clearly distracted.

But Shelley wasn't one to give people a hard time, especially considering her own son didn't turn out great. She'd been bedridden for six years, and she had no right to criticize others.

"Alright." Having said that, Shelley handed Kendra a gift.

Shelley's money was all from Cordelia.

Kendra felt the gift, didn't seem like much money. She looked down on Shelley a bit. Others would give gifts of gold and silver, but she only handed over a bit of giftcard.

"Where's Ronan?" Adrian looked around, and didn't see Ronan. So he asked Shelley.

"He's probably in his study upstairs."

Without another word, Adrian headed upstairs. Shelley just lifted her hand to stop him, but Adrian didn't pay her any mind. Shelley sighed, blaming herself for not raising her son properly. He had no manners.

Kendra, seeing Shelley in this state, looked down on her even more.

Adrian knocked on the door to Ronan's study.

The HR Department had sent Ronan the list of appointments and dismissals for the year, and he was checking it out on his computer.

"Adrian?" Ronan seemed a bit surprised. He wasn’t a fan of Adrian, but Adrian was useful to him in some ways.

"Ronan." As Adrian said that, he closed the door to the study gently behind him.

So it wasn't Ronan who arranged this, and he didn't know about it ahead of time.

Ronan didn't respond.

Adrian almost bumped into Cordelia as he left the study. She was standing there deep in thought when Ronan also came out.

"You eavesdropping out here?" he asked Cordelia. His blunt question left her at a loss for words. After fighting with him about this for so long, now finding out it wasn't his doing, Cordelia felt a bit guilty.

"Della, come here," Ronan called to the other side.

"Hmm?" Hearing someone call her, Cordelia instinctively responded.

"I wasn't calling you." With that, Ronan walked towards the black cat.

Cordelia was left speechless. By the time she got downstairs, Adrian and Kendra had already left.