Chapter 143. I Hate Her Too

Reyona supposed she wouldn't want to go anywhere with such a woman.

“Would you prefer to go with the other lady?” Reyona asked.

Before he could respond, the woman had moved forward with her click-clacking heels. “Really, this is not necessary. I have seen…”

“Miss Feathery, is it?” Maxwell asked in a forbidden tone.

“Featherington. Claudia Featherington.” the woman declared self-importantly.

“Good. Please, shut up.”

“I… hmm. I mean…” Maxwell’s look was enough to shut her up.

When she got no encouraging look from Mary or Cliff either, she humphed and grumbled. “Very well, then. Please wrap this up. I have other things to attend to.”

Then she click-clacked out of the kitchen, almost brushing against Mary and her husband.

Finally, “So, do you want to go with someone else?”

“No, I don’t want to go at all. I want to say here! I want to stay with grandma! I want grandma and Leah to come home but Ally says they can’t. I wanted to go home,