The weekend came quickly.
Yvette Warren notified us in advance that she would be visiting, so Pauline Warren simply decided to have a small family dinner at home to catch up with her older sister.
"Older sister doesn’t like rapeseed oil, so all the cooking will be done with olive oil."
In the kitchen, Pauline Warren watched the servants preparing the dishes with great attentiveness.
She approached the dough-kneading chef, glanced at him, and then frowned, "Older sister loves cleanliness. Put on some gloves before you knead the dough again."
The dough-kneading chef was a bit anxious; after all, he used to cook for the Sinclair family without wearing gloves.
But since Pauline Warren had spoken, he naturally dared not refuse. He agreed promptly, discarded the half-kneaded dough, and went to get some gloves.
Outside the kitchen, Evelyn Clayton witnessed all this and couldn’t help but ask Shane Sinclair.
"Is it always every time she comes over?"
Shane Sinclair sipped his steaming coffee and raised his eyebrows, "Pretty much. Do you remember the last time she came? It was just after you had given birth to Sharon."
"I remember," Evelyn Clayton nodded.
Shane Sinclair chuckled lightly, "At that time, you were always resting in your room, hardly going out, so you didn’t know; whenever Aunt came over, the house was always on high alert ."
Evelyn Clayton was utterly puzzled, "Why?"
"Aunt is particular, plus her relationship with Mom is very..." Shane Sinclair thought for a while, seemingly unable to find a suitable word to describe it.
Evelyn Clayton frowned, "Twisted?"
Shane Sinclair looked enlightened, "Something like that!"
Pauline Warren and Yvette Warren are half-sisters; Pauline Warren’s mother married her father when Yvette Warren’s mother was seriously ill.
Back then, although Old Mr. Warren had already divorced his first wife, due to entanglements of interest, he often had to visit the hospital to see his ex-wife, and during these visits, he talked about his impending marriage.
The ex-wife, whether out of stress or some other reason, intensified her illness upon hearing about her ex-husband’s upcoming remarriage.
Their children were very young at the time, but they genuinely resented Old Mr. Warren, along with the incoming stepmother. Newest update provided by Nov3lFɪre.ɴet
Moreover, Old Mr. Warren’s new bride was someone he was very fond of, so he naturally stood by her.
The result was that the more Old Mr. Warren protected his new wife, the more dissatisfied his children became.
Yvette Warren was somewhat of an exception among Old Mr. Warren’s children.
When Pauline Warren’s mother entered the family, Yvette Warren was only three years old, too young to remember much, and naturally didn’t have any particular feelings towards her stepmother, sometimes even quite intimate.
"It seems that Aunt only discovered the past after she became an adult," Shane Sinclair whispered to Evelyn Clayton, "Their relationship deteriorated rapidly after that, which caused Grandma a lot of heartache."
Pauline Warren’s mother treated Yvette Warren like her own daughter, so when things fell apart, she was naturally upset.
Evelyn Clayton listened without speaking for a moment.
She roughly understood where the twisted relationship between Yvette Warren and Pauline Warren lay.
When Yvette Warren was young, she likely truly respected and loved her stepmother, but as she grew older, she was probably filled with the idea that her birth mother’s death was related to her father and stepmother’s union, which she naturally couldn’t accept.
However, the kindness her stepmother had shown her was genuine, and probably during this period, the sisterhood between Yvette Warren and Pauline Warren was also real.
When she learned there was more to the story, all her emotions transformed and collapsed overnight.
Yvette Warren likely knew deep down that this matter wasn’t truly her stepmother’s fault, but she couldn’t restore her lost birth mother or come to terms with her own heart.