Chapter 124

Vanessa's POV

"What is that woman doing?" Andreas stared intently at the middle-aged woman standing in front of our car.

I noticed the woman and realized that it was Anne. My eyes rounded on her. Anne stood there with her gaze fixed. She was looking at me from behind the glass with a look that I couldn't explain, the expression on her face was too complicated.

I recognized the various expressions on that face, living in the same house with her for a long time, made me know what her character was like. Anne was the one who often arranged me about things, before Jaxon misbehaved with me, Anne was the one who mistreated me first.

He was the worst in-law. If I had any disappointment in Jaxon, then I had tremendous heartache for him. From him, all my pain started. He scolded me when I confessed to having no parents and found out that I was an ordinary country girl.

His expectations of Jaxon really hurt me, he wanted Jaxon to marry a woman from a great family, with wealthy parents. He hoped