Chapter 125 A Lesson

Helen hid the disdain in her eyes of the surroundings and said, "But there's nothing I could do. No matter how well I treat this child, his attitude towards me has always been cold. This caused his grandmother to not let me into the house. Chris's father and I have been renting a place to live for the past couple of years."

"Renting a house would cost quite a lot of money. Houses in Empfield aren't cheap."

"That's right. Chris's father and I would have an extra expenditure every month," Helen said with a smile.

She knew Chris had kept his true identity from Laura, so when she was talking to Shona, she kept Chris's identity a secret intentionally.

After all, no one wanted an extra person to share one's assets. Not only that, for a top family like the Jacobs family, only 1% of their assets would be the wealth that most people couldn't have for their entire lives.

"I coincidentally got to know that Laura's grandmother had fallen ill, so I thought I'd bring some supplements over."

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