Norton made the arrangement as she wasn’t yet familiar with hotel business, but it was a hindrance for her next plan.
But, she couldn’t show the slightest dissatisfaction. At first, she was pretending to be humble. Before things were fully controlled, she couldn’t take off her mask so quickly.
But, how could she seize the real power from Olive as soon as possible and without a trace? What a headache.
The sound of a car’s abrupt stop interrupted her thought and it also made Olive halted on her tracks.
Olive watched Mrs. Hoyle get out of the car fuming, pointing at her nurse and cursing. She had long lost her former elegance. Her so-called nobleness disappeared, shouting like a shrew.
“Olive Steele, what is the meaning of this? Going back on your own words, huh?”
“Mrs. Hoyle, is there any misunderstandings?” Norton was lost at how this old lady from the Hoyle couldn’t like Olive, who was a good kid. She kept finding faults. With her old age, she should enjoy a happy and leisurely old age, enjoy many things in this world, but she caused so many troubles. Wasn’t she tired?
“Misunderstanding?” Mrs. Hoyle sneered. “Ask her what she promised me. But she turns back from her words.”
“Olive, this is…?” Susan asked on purpose. She actually knew the person in front of her. How could she not look into her opponent before acting? She was just completing her acting.
“My mother-in-law,” Olive answered, then walked to Mrs. Hoyle. “Mother, what did I do? I don’t understand a bit.”
“Don’t call me mother,” Mrs. Hoyle yelled.
Norton frowned. Susan’s mouth curled up silently beside him.
Olive wasn’t annoyed either, but smiled, “Since I’ve called you that, I won’t change. Mother, or should we talk slowly in my office? I’m afraid you’ll get heatstroke from standing under the sun for a long time. Come, I’ll hold you.”
But Mrs. Hoyle wasn’t grateful. She yanked off Olive’s hand that just held her arm. “Go to your office, so that you can continue to fool me?”
“Mrs. Hoyle, if you’re willing to bask under the sun here, then continue. What does Olive fool you?” Norton secretly sighed for Alan Hoyle. How could there be such close-minded mother?
“Ask her. What did she promise me in Jiangcheng?” Mrs. Hoyle stared straight at Olive, as if digging a hole in her brain to see.
Norton secretly felt things look bad. He stared at the person who was concerned, “Girl, you’re not planning to secretly leave Alan Hoyle, right?”
“Impossible,” Olive smiled honestly. She was a smart woman and understood at once at the mentioning, “Mother, are you talking about the child?”
“Yes. It’s about the child.” Mrs. Hoyle stopped beating around the bush already and went straight to the subject. “You can directly say it if you don’t want to give this child to the Hoyle. It’s fun fooling me, huh?”
“Fooling you? When did I do that?” Olive wondered. It couldn’t be that the old lady was hallucinating now, right?
“Girl, are you planning to change Annie’s last name?” Norton interjected. He had ever met the little girl—clever and lovable. Olive had worked hard raising this child. It would be too easy for the old lady if she let Mrs. Hoyle bring into the Hoyle.
Olive touched her belly, “No, it’s the one in my belly.”
Susan was slightly surprised, “Olive, are you pregnant?”
Olive nodded, her face softened.
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