Destined Entwining: Capturing My Devoted Beau

Chapter 217: Chapter 125: Some Die of Drought, Others Die of Flood (First Update—Monthly Ticket Request!)

Ava Harlow, Spring Spencer’s mother, has lived abroad for many years due to her poor health, specifically asthma, which requires her to stay in areas with good air quality.

Her permanent residence in the country is also a villa located in a famous scenic area.

Upon receiving her daughter’s call, Ava was sitting in the garden room, having morning tea and chatting with her cousin Autumn Stetford while enjoying the flowers.

Both women are from the Southern Region and stubbornly maintain their old-fashioned habits.

They could stretch a morning tea session from nine in the morning until noon.

”...Spring, is this news true?” Ava was deeply shocked and glanced at her cousin.

Autumn Stetford, sitting decorously across from her, picked up a crystal dumpling and a piece of radish cake, placing them on the dish before her without meeting Ava’s gaze.

Ava tapped lightly on the delicate wrought iron table in the garden room and softly said, ”...Ruby Rayner and Cameron Spencer got divorced, which is really not easy...”

Only then did Autumn Stetford raise her head and replied softly with an ”oh,” ”...Cameron Spencer finally dared to get a divorce?”

”Haha, he deceived me for over ten years back then; I thought he would lie to me for a lifetime, yet he still got divorced.” Ava curled her left little finger, smoothed her temple hair, revealing the corners of her eyes that slanted like her temples.

In the shifting gaze, though middle-aged, she still exuded charm.

She took out a mirror, glanced at herself, and with a mocking smile at the corner of her mouth, said, ”...I’m fifty already... But when the matchmaker told me his wife was about to die from illness, I was only in my twenties. My youth was wasted on a person like that... haha...”

Autumn showed no signs of amusement. Her expression was calm as she dabbed at the corners of her mouth with a napkin and said flatly, ”What’s there to lament about? Youth will pass whether it’s wasted or not.”

”Cousin, of course, you wouldn’t have such sentiments. You come from a better family, you’re prettier, smarter, even married a better husband, and he doesn’t have mistresses.” Ava said, half sighing, half joking.

Autumn snorted coldly, rarely swearing, ”Better my ass. Still surrounded by a gaggle of women, as if I don’t know?”

Ava laughed and advised, ”Cousin, you shouldn’t say that. In our social class, as long as men don’t bring their mistresses home, they’re considered good.”

”Look at Cameron Spencer, not particularly rich, yet one mistress after another. He’s over sixty, and this year he brought home a woman as young as thirty.”

Autumn slammed her chopsticks on the table, impatiently saying, ”Are you bragging about how many mistresses your husband has? The women my husband finds are all go-getters, wealthy and influential, coming from particularly good backgrounds. What do you think they want?!”

Ava chuckled, covering her mouth, ”...What do they want? Isn’t it just that they crave your husband?”

Autumn almost choked, failing to catch her breath.

After a good while, she patted her chest and smiled bitterly, ”Little Ava, I didn’t expect you to be so cheeky. Anyway, every family has its issues; since Cameron Spencer has finally come to his senses this time and changed his mind, you should hurry back and marry. It would also pave the way for Spring.”

Ava’s eyes shifted as she smiled and said, ”I definitely will; although I’ve been abroad all these years, I haven’t missed any domestic issues. What about you? Shouldn’t you also return to the country? You’ve been abroad for half a year now, don’t you miss the kids?”

”I’ll wait for Betty to finish this term, then return to the country with her. She graduates from university this year, and both her grandfather and her dad have promised to attend her graduation ceremony.”

Autumn Stetford has two sons and one daughter. This youngest daughter is much younger than her two brothers, and the whole family dotes on her.

”Oh yes, our Betty graduates from university this year. I said I’d attend her graduation ceremony too, but it seems I won’t be able to.” Ava said as she went inside and brought out a gift box, ”Please take this to Betty for me and tell her Aunt Ava has urgent business to attend to back home. If things go smoothly, I’ll come to her graduation, but if not, I might not be able to make it.”

”You’ve given her enough gifts this year. She doesn’t lack anything.” Autumn laughed, ”She has a doting grandfather, a dad who grants her every wish, and two brothers. She doesn’t even care much about me.”

”How could that be? Young girls are always closest to their mothers. Look at my daughter, no matter how good her dad is to her, her heart is with me.” Ava placed the gift box in front of Autumn.

Autumn looked at the box; it was a new piece of jewelry from Van Cleef & Arpels.