Chapter 748
After dinner, Sylvia grabbed a chair and sat by the wall where she continued to listen to any form of movements on the other side.
Even after several hours had passed, she heard nothing remotely resembling Isabel and Liam chattering on the other side.
It was Sunday. Were they not at home?
After she pondered for a while, she reluctantly grabbed her phone and selected Odell’s contact.
She hovered her finger back and forth over the keyboard for some time and after some more consideration, she sent a message: “Hey, good afternoon.” Followed by a cute smiling emoji as usual.
Ten minutes passed, then half an hour… Then three hours had passed, and he did not answer.
He was probably not going to reply at all by this point.
Sylvia put the phone back in her pocket. The sky was slowly darkening by this point. Just as she was about to head back into the house, she suddenly heard what sounded like a car parking in front of the gate.
She perked up with alertness and immediately went to
Chapter 748
2/5
the barred gate where she put her ear over the sheet of metal in hopes of hearing something. She heard Lily’s voice, “Isabel, Liam, did you two have fun today?”
She frowned.
She heard Isabel answering, “We had a lot of fun. Thank you very much, Aunt Lily.”
Judging by her formal tone, Sylvia could make out that Isabel was not particularly distrustful of her stepmother, but she was not exactly in love with her either.
She was always the type that showered you with love if you extend any sort of genuine goodwill toward her, but would hold a grudge if you got on her bad side. However, she also had a knack to maintain perfect neutrality if a person was otherwise indifferent to her as well.
The end result was that she was not exactly fond of Lily, but she was not mean toward her either.
That was well enough. Sylvia doubted that Lily would be intentionally cruel toward the children once she married Odell.
Lily expressed with a polite smile, “No need to thank me. I’m just glad you two had a great time. That way, I won’t feel like I let your father down.”
Neither Isabel nor Liam made a response.
Chapter 748
3/5
Isabel and Liam were both adorable , but they were the children of Sylvia Ross, an otherwise insignificant person of a not particularly impressive family or background that Lily would hardly spare the time of her day to acknowledge. She doubted that she would ever take a liking to the children, but she made sure to at least take her grandmother’s advice and get on their good side since Odell cared a great deal about them.
For what it was worth, it was not much trouble for her. All she did was take them to a children’s theme park and had the staff inside look after the two of them for the entire day. The staff members did the bulk of the work while all she had to do was to pick them up. It was not much trouble for her at all.
Odell expressed, “I owe you one.”
The children seemed to be in a very good mood. They must have enjoyed their day at the theme park.
Something gleamed in Lily’s eyes and she said with a smile, “In that case, why don’t you treat me to something nice?”
Chapter 748
5/5
Odell stayed quiet for several seconds before promising,” Alright, we’ll do that someday.”
“Which day are we talking about? Could you give me an exact date so I can free up my schedule?”
Odell frowned and stole a glance at the barred gate connected to the next house and decided on a date. “Next Thursday night.”
He set the date for four days from now because he was not particularly in a mood to go outside to eat within the next day or so. “Okay then. See you Thursday night.” With that, she turned and went back to her car.
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Master Odell’s Secret Ex-wife