She was excited for the opportunity to become the young lady of the house of Seet.
Unfortunately, she was not optimistic that she would be able to convince Evan to marry her.
When Lisa saw how dispirited the woman had appeared, she gave Sofie a tongue lashing for her fecklessness.
“Sofie, if you want to capture a man’s heart, you need to employ a bit of trickery.”
Trickery was something that I had attempted before. Unfortunately, it was to no avail.
“Aunt Lisa, how did you managed to get married to Uncle Adam? Would you be willing to teach me?” Sofie implored with sincerity.
Before Lisa could answer her, however, Sofie’s mother interjected.
“Sofie, you have just asked the right person. Your Uncle Adam’s ex-wife had borne him a son. Nevertheless, such a factor couldn’t perturb your aunt from usurping her. Your aunt is truly a master at the pinnacle of this art form, she is…”
Lisa cleared her throat and rolled her eyes at Sofie’s mother.
What usurp? You make me sound so despicable!
“Enough talk of the past! They are irrelevant to the matter at hand. What we should be focused on is solving Sophie’s problem!”
It may be true that Lisa had clambered her way up as a mistress, but the effort that she had to put in on all fronts and the hardship that she had to endure on this path was known only to herself.
Having those unbearable and unglamorous days of yore forced back into her consciousness, Lisa was soon put in a foul mood.
Anthony shot his wife a stare and she obediently bowed her head.
“Lisa, I’ll be counting on you to guide Sofie.”
“Rest assured that I would do my utmost best for Sofie, so long as she is willing to listen.”
With that, Lisa went over and whispered into Sofie’s ears.
“Aunt Lisa, do I have to?”
“This is how you can get Evan to lower his guard against you. You have to exercise patience and do exactly as I say.”
Sofie paused before she nodded.
Evan headed off to collect Maya and Nina from the kindergarten before going to pick Kyle and Juan up.
On the way home, Maya suddenly asked, “Daddy, didn’t you mention this morning that we were going to the Imperial Garden?”
Maya had been harping on the matter the entire day.
She had been fantasizing about how Imperial Garden would look like, and whether it had beautiful gardens and rockery.
“Daddy thought that we should wait for Mommy to return before we can move there together.” His words were met by Maya’s disappointment as her rotund eyes were peeled wide open.
“Must we really wait for Mommy?”
Juan and Kyle were in favor of waiting for their mother, as was Nina.
Maya pouted and counted with her stubby fingers the number of days that would pass before her mother was due to be back.
From that moment, she prayed very hard for her mother to return home soon.
Evan’s phone rang. It was a call from Sophia.
His mother had wanted him to come home for dinner and she specifically mentioned that his father and grandfather would be expecting him.
Spinning his head around to meet his children, Evan soon asked, “Shall we have dinner at the Seet Residence?”
Maya was the first to give him a nod of approval.
Since her mother was away and there would be no dinner at home, she would rather opt for a ready meal over waiting for her father to cook.
Soon enough, the other three children concurred.
Off went the car, as it sped towards the Seet Residence.
Evan was in for a rude awakening when he stepped into the living room.
Apart from Jonathan and Russell, he was graced with the presence of an unwelcome guest- Sofie Sweeting.
What is she doing here?
Evan’s chiseled face turned cold as he looked guardedly toward Sophia.
Sophia rose to her feet and came close to Evan before she whispered into his ear, “Sofie is here as a guest of your grandpa.”
Why would Grandpa have invited her?
Evan pondered and then suspected that his grandfather had intended to displace Nicole, hoping to bring Sofie and himself together.
Grandpa’s thinking has become quite ridiculous as of late.
The four kids exchanged knowing glances with one another when they spotted Sofie. They remembered how she had been a thorn in their side when they stayed at the Hillside Villa with their mother.
They had once plotted on how they would deal with Sofie.
All of that contributed to the reason that they had retained such a poor impression of her.
After they had greeted their great-grandfather and grandfather, they went straight upstairs to play with Sophia.
The four kids basically did not give Sofie a second glance, as they seemed to have seen right past her, as though she was invisible to them.
