Way Back Into Love (Essie) novel Chapter 111

That name.

No one was more familiar with it than she was.

No one knew her better than she did.

No one understood her better than she did.

Because she bore that name for seven whole years.

Essie was Cathy Xu.

After divorcing Baron, her mother changed her name to Lucy in the hopes of forgetting her past life and starting a new one. After she married Bob, Essie offered to change her name in order to ease her mother's conflict with her new grandparents. Since her mother's second marriage, they had severed ties with their original family and become members of the new family wholeheartedly.

However, did she actually become engaged to that ice guy?

Wasn't this the biggest joke of the century?

How come she never knew about it?

He was eleven years old then, while she was only six years of age. At that time, Elizabeth took her son and daughter and became part of the family. Essie and her elder sister Alice were too busy fighting with Valery and her little brother, so she knew nothing about this. It was a political marriage arranged by the adults. The children would know about it when they reached puberty.

Hearing him mention her childhood nemesis, Valery became a little furious.

Cathy had always been more beautiful, smarter, and more brilliant than her. She was better than her in every aspect and stole her thunder at every turn that Valery was doomed to live in her shadow forever. Ever since she found out that Zac's grandfather chose Cathy as his future granddaughter-in-law, she had been looking for the every chance to kill her, but the woman luckily managed to escape every time. Fortunately, her mother had finally become the legal wife and kicked Cathy and her mother out of the family. She was no longer a threat to her.

"She has not been a part of our family for a long time. Who knows, maybe she has been living like a sparrow in the slums. Do you really want to marry her?" she demanded angrily.

Zac smiled coldly, scorn evident in his eyes. "She may be a sparrow... and you're her half-sister. That makes you a turtledove."

Zac's words held a double meaning. There was an old saying that a turtledove takes over the nest of a sparrow. He was implying that Valery was occupying the position of her sister Cathy.

Upon hearing these words, Essie felt relieved, as if she had drunk a jar of iced tea in the middle of summer.

For the first time, she was impressed by Zac's sharp tongue.

Valery was rendered speechless by the barb, so angry that she began to stomp her feet. Elizabeth quickly restrained her and said, "Be careful, you are pregnant." The child was definitely a trump card, especially if it turned out to be a son. Valery would get whatever she wanted once she gave birth to a son. Yesterday, Valery had the baby examined by B-ultrasound and was relieved to have the gender of the baby confirmed.