Chapter 1907 Sister
Janice gazed at Maya as poorly concealed jealousy and disdain contorted her features. How lucky is she to be born into such a powerful family to be highly coveted by the Simpsons! If I were in her shoes, I would have already locked Wilbur down for myself.
My father-in-law would be so pleased with me that he would start treating me like royalty. Unfortunately, life isn’t that fair to have granted me an advantageous start! Some of us have to slog for what we have.
Feeling deeply uncomfortable with the way Janice was staring at her, Maya cleared her throat timidly. “What a coincidence, Janice!”
With a start, Janice hastily rearranged her features. Then, with a disarming smile at Maya, she replied, “It is my honor to dine with you.”
Rodney chuckled. “Fate has brought us together as our own little family. Let’s raise a glass and let bygones be bygones, shall we?”
“I’d like that,” Maya said graciously. “The Simpson family will thrive and prosper from now on!” Janice sneered. Not for long.
“It’s forgotten,” concurred Janice sweetly. “Now that I am engaged to Nicholas and pregnant with his child, we are practically family already! Maya, you’re going to be my sister-in-law! I will treat you like my very own sister. I hope you can treat me like yours too.”
Though Maya felt startled by Janice’s disconcerting change, she nevertheless reciprocated the latter’s smile.
That’s really all I want—to coexist peacefully. If Janice can find it in herself to keep from sabotaging me, I would be willing to sign a truce.
“Enough chitchat,” roared Rodney boisterously. “The food’s getting cold!”
The hubbub around the dining table was soon replaced by the gentle clinking of cutlery.
Janice gazed automatically at the bump on her belly. The time to deliver to Maya the huge gift I have prepared for her is almost here. Since I have been given the opportunity to run into her today, I shall use it wisely to create a good impression of myself on them.
“Have you had enough, Maya? Can I get you a second helping?”
Maya was feeling alarmed by Janice’s hospitality by that point. Is she putting her services at my disposal? What’s going on? A change as drastic as this doesn’t make sense.
Maya was not the only one who felt perplexed by Janice’s sudden change in behavior. The other dinner guests gazed at her with the same sense of bewilderment.
“What is it? Why are all of you looking at me like that?”
“Cut the act. You look like you’re in a play,” Nicholas remarked scathingly as he took a bite of a baked potato.
She’s been calling Maya a little b*tch the entire journey here, and suddenly there she is, treating Maya like her flesh and blood! Janice must have something up her sleeve.
Nicholas heartily disliked women like Janice, who indulged in politics to serve their own agendas.
The sole reason why she had gotten pregnant with my child is that I’d had too much to drink that night and she happened to be the woman at hand to be dragged into bed with me.
As soon as he realized what he had done, Nicholas entertained the idea of pairing Janice up with Wilbur in an attempt to sever ties with her and to avenge himself by having Wilbur go through the embarrassment of raising another man’s child. At the same time, he was determined to find a better wife for himself. With Mabel’s help, Nicholas had managed to push the blame for Janice’s pregnancy over to Wilbur.
That was the original plan. Look at the storm of sh*t I’m in right now.
Janice glared at Nicholas and cursed him silently. No wonder your brother is the heir to the family instead of you! What a pity that the father of my child is such a sore loser!
