35: The Andersons from New York?!
35: The Andersons from New York?!
Nora stood up and got ready to head out to receive the guest.
However, after she took a couple of steps, she saw that Henry and the others were still seated with their noses in the air and putting on an arrogant display.
It was obvious that they didn’t care about the guest.
She ignored them and went straight out.
At once, she saw an elegant and presentable middle-aged woman standing at the door.
The woman was well-maintained and wore a classy long-sleeved dress.
It seed as if a beauty had walked straight out of a painting, and there was a kind of serene and composed charm around her that was found only in a scholarly family.
Mrs.
Lane, who was holding disinfectant spray, originally thought that she would see a ek and dirty country bumpkin entering.
Little did she think that the guest would actually look like that instead.
For a mont, she didn’t even dare to spray the disinfectant she was holding anymore.
lissa Anderson smiled gently and said, “We et again, Nora!” Nora didn’t expect to et her here.
Rather surprised, she said, “You…” lissa ca forward a couple of steps quickly and grabbed her hand.
“This is fate, child!
It was your own uncle who you saved!” Inside the house, Angela, who was dying to mock them, couldn’t wait anymore.
When she saw the two of them speaking at the door, she walked straight toward the door while saying, “Have you disinfected the place, Mrs.
Lane?
We mustn’t just let any random person into the h—” Her words ca to an abrupt end when she saw lissa!
After a three-second pause, her voice instantly beca much louder and she exclaid sharply, “You’re Nora’s aunt?!” Upon hearing her reaction, Wendy and Henry also stood up and walked toward the door.
Wendy whispered, “Angela is still too young and inexperienced.
It’s because she’s never seen a country bumpkin before that she’s overreacting so badly.
Sigh.” With a look of smugness all over her face, she straightened her back quietly.
When she married Henry back then, everyone had said that she wasn’t as pretty as his deceased wife, so she had been holding a huge grudge all these years.
But now, she could finally hold her head up high when it ca to the family background!
She would show Nora’s poor relative what she was made of!
The next mont, she imdiately spotted lissa.
Wendy ca from an average family.
When she married Henry, she was considered as having married soone of a higher social status.
During all these years of socializing with rich n’s wives, she had worked hard to learn and copy their style and mannerisms.
She had originally thought that she was doing pretty well, but little did she think that the air around lissa and her presence when she was rely standing there would already give her a crushing defeat!
For a while, none of them spoke.
lissa had grown up in a wealthy family.
Her emotions had overwheld her when she first saw Nora, but now that she had cald down, she imdiately sensed sothing amiss.
The corners of her lips curled up into a smile.
She ignored Wendy and looked at Henry instead as she asked, “You must be my brother-in-law?” Henry had already recovered from his surprise by then.
The arrogance on his face had completely disappeared.
Instead, he gave her an ingratiating smile and asked, “You’re…?” lissa cast her eyes down and said, “Oh, I forgot to introduce myself.
I’m an artist.” After glossing over the topic, she said, “It doesn’t look like I ca at a good ti, Nora.
Let’s find sowhere else to talk instead.” Nora nodded.
“Sure.” She took the lead.
Her voice sounded a little deep as she said, “Slow down.” Angela only dared to speak again after the two of them got in the car and left.
She asked, “Dad, Mom.
Who is she?” During the ergency at Hotel Finest the other ti, lissa hadn’t looked her usual self because she was crying very badly due to worry, so Angela didn’t recognize her just now.
Wendy gritted her teeth.
Then, she imdiately took Henry’s arm and said, “Oh you know, artists.
No wonder she looks so classy.
But I’ve heard that there aren’t many artists who are making money nowadays.
Instead, there are a lot of people that try to scam others by calling themselves artists.” Angela curled her lip.
“So that’s what it is.
I thought she was from a wealthy family because of how she had behaved!
That makes sense, though.
If Nora’s mother’s family were rich, her mother wouldn’t have been so down and out!” Henry, however, was staring at the doorway and looking very distracted.
All the outsiders thought that Nora’s mother was destitute and had only managed to survive because she married him.
But actually, she had a company under her na back then… While he was lost in thought, Wendy spoke up and said, “Nora’s mother’s last na is Anderson, right?
That’s an unusual last na in our circle.
There isn’t any distinguished family with that last na apart from the Andersons in New York.” Her words made Henry co back to his senses.
She was right.
Apart from the Andersons in New York, all the other businessn with the last na Anderson weren’t important people.
He snorted and said, “They are probably just putting on an act.
I’m just afraid that Nora is stupid enough to let them trick her!” Wendy smiled and said, “Alright, that’s enough.
Don’t we have a dinner appointnt with the Grays tonight?
Let’s get ready, lest we be late.” Henry nodded.
“Yes, that’s more important.” Angela grumbled, “Soone has already reserved Hotel Finest’s VVIP room.
Otherwise, how nice would it be to have dinner there?
Sigh!” Outside the house.
Nora saw an understated black Cayenne parked there.
The car was a high-end model and its estimated value in the dostic market was around $700,000.
For her aunt to be able to afford such a car… Was she really just an artist?
However, she didn’t ask about it and just followed lissa into the car.
lissa instructed the chauffeur, “To Hotel Finest.” After the car started, lissa observed the girl next to her.
Her cat-like eyes were downcast and she had long eyelashes.
Although she was beautiful, she was unusually pale.
She sighed and said, “You must have suffered a lot all these years, Nora.” Nora thought to herself, … Actually, it wasn’t that bad.
After all, it makes no difference where you sleep.
When lissa saw her keeping quiet, she knew imdiately that she didn’t want to talk about the Smiths.
The report that Justin had sent them was more detailed than what they could see on the surface.
She felt sorry for her niece, so she changed the subject and said, “By the way, your uncle is still in the hospital.
The reason why we were able to find you was because soone helped us greatly, so your uncle wants us to treat them to dinner tonight as thanks.
Is that alright with you?” Nora didn’t mind, so she nodded.
“Okay.” lissa breathed a sigh of relief.
When they arrived at Hotel Finest, lissa said, “Don’t you have a daughter, Nora?
Can I et her?” Nora could sense that lissa was a kind person, so she agreed.
She called Mrs.
Lewis and told her to bring Cherry to the restaurant on the third floor.
The two headed to the restaurant first, intending to have a good chat with each other after entering the private room.
Half an hour later, the Smiths arrived just in ti to see a distracted Anthony coming over to pick them up.
After eting up with them, he said, “I heard the Andersons from New York are in the VVIP room.
Let’s see if we can talk to them later.” The Andersons from New York?
An indescribable feeling suddenly arose in Henry as if he had just let sothing slip by him.
At the sa ti, at the elevator hall on the third floor.
The presidential suite on the top floor had an exclusive elevator while the rest of the floors used public elevators.
Ding!
Ding!
The doors to both elevators opened at the sa ti.
Justin, together with Pete and Chester, ca out of the presidential suite’s exclusive elevator.
The other elevator’s doors slowly opened to reveal Cherry standing inside.
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