Madam Elizabeth didn’t like Shawn and surely did not want him to be “filial” to her. Just the thought of her son being nicer to someone else than herself irked her.
There was so much about this son-in-law of hers that she was unhappy about. And what Leander just did only reinforced her bias against Shawn.
And also helped her realized that her son was already completely under that young man’s spell. He was now on his side for everything.
She’d only made Shawn wait for a while longer, and Leander was already feeling bad for him?
Madam Elizabeth looked at the bowl of soup before her and resisted the temptation to hurl it on the ground. She found an excuse and said, “I haven’t been feeling so good lately, I don’t think I should have this.”
Leander eyed her deeply.
Old Madam took her word
