Thorns Grow After Betrayal (Celeste and Chester) novel Chapter 319

Those two kids were usually so well-behaved, but lately, all they did was cry.

It was driving her up the wall, but she couldn’t just wash her hands of it.

Celestine offered a faint smile. “You think this is a blessing? These two children are left with you—are you going to take care of them or not? And as if that weren’t enough, your brother—handsome, successful, and devoted—wants to marry you. Would you accept?”

Serena fell silent.

If she was honest with herself, she didn’t want any of it.

Celestine just laughed it off.

She didn’t wait for Serena to keep rambling, simply turned and left by another path.

Serena didn’t bother to catch up.

“How did your talk with your sister-in-law go?”

When Serena returned to the top-floor VIP suite, Sanderson and Dahlia were already waiting.

Sanderson was eager to know how her conversation with Celestine had gone—hoping for some sort of reconciliation.

After the ugly scene Dahlia had caused with Celestine in the hospital room last time, Sanderson was too embarrassed to face his daughter-in-law again himself.

But the minute he heard about the Selwyn family’s outburst earlier that day, he’d been the first to know.

He was already planning to send someone to clean up the mess, but someone else had beaten him to it.

The Selwyns were fools, he thought.

Trying to stir up trouble, and in the end, they’d only managed to hurt their own child.

Malicious and stupid, both.

With his own plan now useless, Sanderson had no choice but to send Serena to play peacemaker.

She and Celestine were about the same age; if anyone had a chance of persuading her, it would be Serena.

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