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Chapter 721
‘Gah! I hate her so much!’ thought Francine. She stood with her arms akimbo and shouted, ” Hey, you! Put on some
clothes and get up from the bed now!”
“Why should I?” Corinne asked with a quirk of her eyebrow. She went back to her phone after throwing an
indifferent glance at Francine. She was not surprised by her sudden appearance in her room because she heard
everything that went outside the room just moments ago.
“You’re asking me why? Well, let me tell you why! As a woman of the Holden family household, you’re prohibited
from staying in bed past a certain time. Tsk, I guess what they say is true. Poor people are poor because they’re
lazy,” replied Francine.
Corinne chuckled wryly. “I married your brother, not you. What makes you think you can control me when he can’t
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇteven control me?”
Francine glared at her and said haughtily, “And what makes you think I can’t control you? You can’t fool me into
thinking you’re really my sister-in-law since I know the two of you aren’t really married in the legal sense! In other
words, you’re still an outsider and as an outsider, you have to listen to everything 1, Francine Holden, tell you to
do!”
Corinne smiled and nodded. “Fine. I’m all ears. What do you want me to do?”
Francine crossed her arms and said, “I want you to get up from your bed now and do some work around the house
to earn your keep!”
“Work? What work?” asked Corinne curiously.
“Clean the bathroom, do the laundry, cook some meals… Whatever. Just do something! Or are you so blind as not
to see there are so many things you can do around the house?”
“But we have professionals for that… so I don’t see why I should do all that work.”
“While that’s true, you should still do some work as Jeremy’s wife. If not, what’s the point of him marrying you? We
have wasted enough time talking. Get up now and mop the whole house,” said Francine with a frown.
Corinne had been holding up her phone toward Francine this whole time. At that moment, she looked lazily at the
screen, pouted, and said, “Mister, you heard all that, right? Seems like I’m not welcome here at all. In fact, your
sister is treating me worse than all those mother-in- laws portrayed in soap operas.”
“Give her the phone,” said Jeremy coldly.
Francine immediately tensed up with horror when she heard Jeremy’s voice coming from the phone. It was then
she realized Corinne was not actually playing on her phone. Instead, she was recording her!
‘Sh*t! I’ve forgotten how devious she can be!’ thought Francine.
Corinne remained lazily slumped against the head rest. She smiled and crooked her finger toward Francine. “Come.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmYour brother is asking for you.”
A chill ran up Francine’s spine but she did not dare to defy Jeremy’s order. Glaring all the while at Corinne, she
walked up to the bed and took the phone from her. Jeremy was on his way to the office in his chauffeured car.
“Jeremy…”
“Pack up your things. I’ll send someone over to take you to your mom’s place later,” said Jeremy emotionlessly.
That was when Francine knew she was in big trouble. She and Jeremy shared the same father but unlike his mother,
her own mother had remained on the periphery all this while due their grandparents’ unwillingness to accept her
into the family. The only reason Francine could live in the Holden’s estate was because Jeremy allowed her to do so
since she was a Holden after all. Not to mention, it was quite rare for the Holdens to have a daughter amid their
midst.
‘Does that mean Jeremy doesn’t want me anymore? Is that why he’s sending me back to live with my mom?’
thought Francine.
“No! I don’t want to go live with my mom!” she cried out to Jeremy. “Then apologize to Corinne this instant!”
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