"Meredith Leighton, I swear that I'll break your legs if you show up in front of me like this again!" Grabbing her by her wrist, Josiah dragged her out of his study roughly. "Get the hell out!""Ahh!" Meredith cried in pain after being thrown onto the floor.Josiah was surely fickle-minded.After staying sprawled on the floor for some time, Meredith then tried to sit herself up.A pair of high heels appeared in front of her eyes. Meredith was first slightly startled but quickly, she looked away and continued getting up from the floor."Look at you, all dressed up for the sake of seducing Josiah, but got kicked out anyway." Smirking, Ysabelle crouched down to be at the same eye level as Meredith as she studied Meredith's naked body which was almost visible and covered with scars and bruises."Meredith Leighton, do you not look at yourself in the mirror at all? Even if you stand naked in the middle of a room, no man would want you anyway."Meredith could not be bothered to defend
Josiah showed up at the dining hall right at lunchtime. Scanning the place, Josiah did not see Meredith around. He was about to ask Lily if Meredith had left.Lily then greeted, "Sir, lunch is ready."Taking a look at the table full of dishes, Josiah had already gotten his answers.Lunch was prepared by Meredith.Looking at the dishes, memories of Meredith dressed in the provocative nightgown suddenly flashed across his mind. Josiah seethed, "Get Meredith over here right now!""Miss Meredith is in the middle of doing laundry." Carefully, she asked, "Sir, is the food not to your liking? I can call Miss Linda to come over and prepare other dishes for you.""I said get Meredith over here," Josiah repeated.Lily had no other choice but to go get Meredith.Shortly after, Meredith showed up in front of him.She was dressed in a faded white-colored tee shirt. The loose tee-shirt only revealed her slender neck.Josiah thought that Meredith looked much better dressed like this.But h
At the Leighton family's mansion.Margot Yara was sipping on a hot cup of tea on the sofa. At the sight of Ysabelle, she immediately got up onto her feet and asked, "So? Did you get to meet Josiah's grandmother? Did she have a good impression of you?"Sitting down on the sofa, Ysabelle shook her head. "A wealthy woman like her would never take a liking to someone like me, an illegitimate child.""Nonsense!" Margot seethed, "Doesn't she know that you're now the young madam of the Leighton family? And does she not know that the person that her grandson adored is actually the daughter of a servant working for them?"Ysabelle glanced at her mother and said, "Stop it, mom. Aside from scolding them, I'd rather you help me come up with a solution.""How could I possibly have any solution when Josiah doesn't love you and his grandmother has no interest in you?" Margot sighed and added, "What a bunch of blind idiots! My daughter is so much more outstanding than that servant's daughter!"Y
"Right! Why didn't I think of this?" Ysabelle exclaimed.She then complained to her mother, "Mom, why didn't you remind me of this sooner? If you did, I would have already been together with Josiah.""Well, I didn't know that Josiah's grandmother is so desperate in wanting a great-grandchild," Putting the bottle into Ysabelle's hands, Margot added, "it's fine. It's not too late.""Alayna is dead, and Meredith's daughter does not have long to live. As long as you get pregnant with Josiah's child, Meredith would never be able to turn the tables."Ysabelle nodded her head. "You're right, Mom!"Ysabelle guessed that Meredith must have been racking her brain, coming up with different ways to get pregnant with Josiah's child but she must have come up with nothing.Ysabelle made up her mind that she would get pregnant first before Meredith does.At night.Meredith was laying on the bed but she could not fall asleep.She thought that she could not afford to waste time sleeping around.
Meredith quickly adjusted her hand movements and replied, "You're only thinking dirty thoughts and that is why you'd naturally think that others have bad intentions toward you."Pulling into a smirk, he replied, "Yeah? I do hope that I'm overthinking it."He had to admit that her massage was really comfortable.Josiah let out a low moan and said, "Meredith Leighton, seeing how you're being so thoughtful, tell me how much you need."Meredith gnawed on her lips, she needed to be pregnant with his child. But she could not bring herself to tell him.For the sake of creating more opportunities to get closer to him, Meredith answered, "I thought I already told you that it is my responsibility to take care of you as your servant.""Meredith Leighton, let me warn you…""You've warned me a lot of times now," Meredith interrupted him and said, "I did not forget what you say and I'll not scheme against you."She simply wanted to get pregnant with his child. Josiah would not be at any disa
Josiah did not kick her out of the room, but instead, he closed his eyes.Not because her massage was able to help him sleep, but because he wanted to see if he would not be distracted as she said.Because he did realize that he seemed to be especially interested in her damaged and tainted body. For some reason, he would want her every time he saw her body.Was he sick?Could it be that he had the same illness as Julian Jefferson - having a preference for the damaged?Closing his eyes, he tried to get rid of all the doubts and forced himself to stop thinking.Meredith's hands were starting to ache but Josiah did not seem to be sleepy at all. She could not help but doubt her own massage skills.But when she massaged her mother, her mother would always fall asleep within fifteen minutes."Get out, Meredith Leighton!" Josiah finally exploded.Meredith's hands stopped moving. Looking at him, she asked, "You're not feeling sleepy at all?""It's not working because you're bad at th
"You were so adorable back then, like a little angel." Crouching down in front of his bed, Meredith traced her fingers along his long eyelashes and sighed, "But since when did you grow up into being a devil?"Josiah, who felt someone touching him, frowned slightly and opened his eyes.Meredith was caught in the act. Her fingers froze in mid-air."What are you doing?" Glancing at her, Josiah sounded irritated.With that cold tone of his, Josiah was indeed a devil. "I…" Meredith took back her hand and tried to explain, "Lily said that you rarely sleep in so I was just checking if you're sick."Meredith could not afford to let Josiah know that she was actually observing him in his sleep and had even touched him. This would only make Josiah hate her even more and would ruin her plan.Josiah did not suspect anything. He took a glance at the clock on the wall to realize that it was already half-past seven.Josiah thought that it was strange that he actually slept in.After Meredith
"They're wildflowers if I say they are!""..." Meredith nodded. "Fine, I will get rid of them now!"She then started picking up the shattered pieces of the vase on the floor.Then, she went downstairs, took a sickle with her, headed toward the garden, and started cutting down the rose bushes.While cutting down the roses, she reminded herself, 'How could I expect a man who doesn't even believe his own wife, who refuses to acknowledge his own daughter to have any sort of conscience? How could I possibly expect him to remember this rose garden?"She had clearly known that he was devilish but yet every single time, she would find herself still having hope and expectations toward him.Lily saw her coming downstairs, headed to the garden and started frantically cutting down the rose bushes. Lily quickly rushed outside to stop her. "Miss Meredith, what are you doing? Why are you cutting them down?"Meredith stopped her tears from falling, gritted her teeth, and replied, "It's Sir's