Chapter 22. Brothers? Impossible!

Jane stared at Isabella with her mouth wide open in stupefaction.

“Can you close your mouth? You look so dump,” Isabella told her disapprovingly.

“Do not blame me because I do not really know how to take in what I just heard.” Jane shook her head and closed her mouth but still looked as bewildered as before.

“Therefore you cannot close your mouth because you received the news through it and it’s too much for you to contain?” Isabella raised her brow at her. Jane frowned.

“That is not funny,” Jane said, and snickered the next second, actually finding it funny. Isabella joined her as well.

“But really, this is quite shocking and unexpected. Maxwell is Alexander’s half-brother? That is too hard to believe. And the maid had the effrontery to shamelessly show up after all these years with a son for her boss? Don’t you think they are just cooking it up to get money from him? I mean from Alex’s father,” Jane suggested.

“I don’t think so,” Isabella shook