Chapter 880

“You want me to introduce you to Old Mr. Laith? I’ll do it on one condition,” Ashlyn said, her lips curling up slightly. “So, it’s up to you.”

“What condition?” Penelope asked anxiously.

“Tell me about your collaboration with Mr. Haddock.” The look on Penelope’s face amused Ashlyn.

Does this woman think that everyone is dumb like her? How dare she ask me to introduce her to Old Mr. Laith? The audacity!

Penelope was already boiling with fury. The fact that Ashlyn tried to circumvent her effort to sound out information about Harvey and the talk of a condition made her even more furious.

“What do you mean? The collaboration between Yates Group and Haddock Group is confidential. Are you forcing me to commit a crime? No outsider can know about this. I only wanted you to help introduce me to Old Mr. Laith. It’s just a simple favor, and yet you have the cheek to bring up talks of a condition!”

“Then, I’m afraid that meeting the chairman of Magnecal Tech is considered a business meeting.

Please make an appointment at the reception of Magnecal Tech if you wish to meet Old Mr. Laith,”

Ashlyn replied mockingly.

“Ashlyn!” Penelope gnashed her teeth in exasperation, glaring at Ashlyn. “You grew up in the Berry household, and you’re also a Berry! You’ve snatched my place as the eldest daughter of the Berry family. You owe me that, and now it’s time for you to pay me back. Don’t be so petty as all I’m asking you is to introduce me to Old Mr. Laith.”

Ashlyn let out a sneer and looked at Penelope, who she thought was the epitome of shamelessness.

“I grew up in the Berry household, yes. You, of all people, should know how I grew up in that family,”

Ashlyn said plainly. “You always had the best in everything, while I had to struggle to live in your shadow.”

Horace had never treated Ashlyn like a person, while Mary hated her to the bone.

She didn’t understand why when she was young. However, after she found out that she was, in fact, not the biological child of the Berrys, everything became crystal clear.

Ashlyn knew she was just a superfluous existence.

Penelope’s eyes burned with hatred, and she showed no signs of being abashed. “That’s because you did something wrong. When had Dad ever punished you for nothing? You were punished because you refused to listen to Mom and Dad. You were a naughty child, and what does that have to do with me?

No matter what, you still grew up with the Berrys. If you don’t know how to repay the ones who raised you, then you’re nothing but a shameless and ungrateful wench.”

Penelope was trying to provoke Ashlyn. She reckoned that anyone with the slightest sense of dignity would never be able to refute her.

She was just trying to get Ashlyn to introduce her to someone. How difficult was that?

Judging by how Harvey and Ashlyn interacted, Penelope knew they must be close to each other.

To her surprise, however, Ashlyn uttered, “No can do.”

Penelope nearly popped a vein in anger. “You…”

Ashlyn couldn’t care to squander her time on a crazy woman like Penelope. She was out to catch some fresh air and had other businesses to tend to.

She took out her phone and started to contact Luigi.

“How’s everything?”

“Everything is ready. As long as Dixon makes a move, we’ll be able to catch him red-handed.”

“How many people do they have?”

“About thirty, and they’re positioned in other private rooms.”

“Keep close tabs on them, and be careful not to alert them.”

“Okay.”

Ashlyn kept her phone and turned to Penelope once again. “I don’t owe the Berrys anything now. Not to you, not to Grandma.”

The nursing home, property, assets, and housekeepers she had prepared for Susan were all top-notch.

Penelope wanted to refute her, but she couldn’t find the words to say.

It was as if someone was holding her by the throat, and she finally came to the stark realization of one fact: Ashlyn was no longer the person she used to be.

While Ashlyn had long left the Berry family and made a name for herself, Penelope found herself going in the opposite direction, falling further behind.

Even if she had become the young lady of the Yates family, she was still far behind Ashlyn in many ways.