Chapter 740

Chapter 740

“I’ll send you the restaurant location later. All you need to do now is to work hard at your job, replied

Corinne and before Jeremy could say anything, she had already hung up the phone.

The reason Corinne ended the call so quickly was because Francine had just come back from outside

and was standing in front of her and glaring at her vehemently. Corinne did not want to worry Jeremy

with what was going on at home so she was left with no choice but to hang up the phone.

Corinne was unfazed by the way Francine was glaring at her. She curled her lips into a nonchalant

smile and asked, “Why are you back? Didn’t you say you’re going to Anya’s place to hang out?”

Francine crossed her arms haughtily before sitting down on the sofa. “What I do is none of your

business!”

Corinne let out a lazy yawn and said, “You’re right. It is none of my business but I should warn you,

stay away from Anya. She’s a bad influence on you.”

Francine really liked Anya from the bottom of her heart since the two of them went way back. In fact,

the latter had bribed the former with sweets and whatnots ever since they were young so it was only

natural that Francine would wish Anya to be her sister–in–law.

When she heard Corinne telling her to stay away from Anya, she thought Corinne was jealous of Anya

so she simply rolled her eyes and said, “Corinne, what right do you have to tell me what to do? Who do

you think you are? I like hanging out with Anya ‘cause she’s a thousand times better than you and

there’s nothing you can do about it!”

Corinne narrowed her eyes and said solemnly, “You ask me who do I think I am? Well, I’m your sister–

in–law, that’s who! I have the responsibility to discipline you on behalf of your brother. This includes

forbidding you from being friends with people who are a bad influence on you!”

In the first three months Corinne and Jeremy were together, they only saw each other as business

partners so Corinne did not feel like it was her responsibility to care about anything that went on in his

family.

However, the situation had changed. She really had every intention to spend the rest of her life with

Jeremy so she felt like she had the responsibility to teach the spoiled Francine how to be a decent

human being. Otherwise, there might be a chance that Anya would use Francine as a means to get rid

of her if she did not nip their friendship in the bud.

Hearing what Corinne said made Francine rolled her eyes so hard that one would think she had

become possessed by an evil spirit. “Don’t make me laugh, Corinne! What makes you think I’ll ever

listen to you? Surely you’ve overestimated yourself.”

Corinne chuckled lightly as she slowly got up from the sofa. Then, without warning, she shot to where

Francine was sitting, twisted her arm to the bac, and pinned her down on the sofa. Francine yelped out

in pain. “Corinne, what the h*ll are you doing? Let go of me!” she said fearfully.

“Now do you still think I’ve overestimated myself?” Corinne whispered into Francine’s ear.

Enduring the pain that was shooting through her arm, Francine looked vehemently at Corinne from the

corner of her eyes and said, “Tsk! So what if you’re strong? My bet is you wouldn’t dare to hit me at all!”

“I won’t hit you, that’s true. But it’s not because I’m scared. It’s just that it ain’t fun hitting an idiot like

you,” said Corinne with a smile. After that, she let go of her grip on Francine. Francine stood up and

shook her arm up and down to ease the pain. “Who are you calling an idiot! If anything, you’re the idiot

here!”

Instead of offering her a retort, Corinne simply turned around and ordered the old butler, Bowen, you

can ask all the servants to take the rest of the day off after lunch is served ‘cause Miss Francine here

had oh–so–graciously offered to all the housework today.”

“Umm… forgive me Ma’am but… I don’t…” Bowen was so confused that he did not know what to say.

Francine glared at Corinne vehemently. “Corinne, have you gone insane? When did I ever offer to do

that?!”

Corinned looked back at Francine with a raised eyebrow. “What’s wrong, Francine? I’m just abiding by

what you said this morning when you barged into my room. If I remember correctly, you said your

family would not suffer any lazy woman in this household so what’s so wrong with asking you to do the

housework today? Besides, it’s not like I’m going to do the housework since I have your brother’s

protection so I won’t be cast out of the house even if I do nothing all day but eat and sleep.”