Chapter 227
“Leila, I heard that you’ve been taking care of Mom for the past few days at the hospital.”
Leila smiled. “It’s what a daughter-in-law is supposed to do.”
Yorick looked at Leila and couldn’t deny that his brother had great taste.
He compared her to his own wife, who was rough around the edges. She had let herself go after childbirth and looked like a tired wife. 1
Even though Leila was no longer young, she still looked young and beautiful.
Yanis’ face changed upon noticing the way her husband was looking at Leila. She cleared her throat, which got Yorick’s notice and made him smile awkwardly. He changed the topic. “By the way, where are Willie and Zee?”
Madam Vanderbilt said to Stephen, “Yes, Willie is your daughter. We should ask her to join us for dinner.”
Leila was glad about what Madam Vanderbilt said, but she didn’t show it.
When Stephen thought about Willow, it really had been a while since he had seen her. No matter what she had done, she was still his daughter.
“Get Leila to ask her over.”
After Stephen agreed, Leila smiled and said, “I’ll call Willie then”
Maisie was the last to show up when the Vanderbilts were having a great time at the dinner table.
After Willow saw Maisie looking even more radiant than before and remembered how tough her life had been, she resented her even more.
Stephen smiled and said, seeing the empty seat next to him, “Zee, come sit next to me.”
Madam Vanderbilt wasn’t too happy about that. “That’s the seat of your wife, Leila. You’re letting your daughter sit there instead of her?
Leila, who was seated elsewhere, said, “It’s alright, Mother. Let Zee take it.”
Maisie sat down next to her father. Yorick smiled and said, “You turned out beautiful.”
Yanis mocked. “Sure, praise your sister-in-law’s daughter.”
He had praised Willow before that and now Maisie. However, he never said anything good about his daughter.
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