Chapter 157

After watching his father disappear upstairs, Richard finally turned to Evelyn and said, “Cassandra’s gone.”

Then, without waiting for a response, he followed suit up the stairs.

Evelyn blinked, needing a moment for the words to register. She stood there for quite a while, and when Charlotte walked past her…

Gone? Cassandra’s actually missing?

Then she recalled what that man said not long ago. Suddenly, it all made sense.

She gave a cold chuckle in her heart—well, gone is gone. With her out of sight, her mood could only get better.

She knew how much her husband spoiled that girl. No way she’d be dumb enough to go argue with him right now—that’d just be asking for it.

Lillian, once she heard the news, could barely hide the grin fighting its way onto her face.

Still, given the gloomy mood in the house, she stopped herself from celebrating openly.

Meanwhile, over at the Hawthorne residence, Linda and her daughter couldn’t help but g