<h4>Chapter 996: Chapter 994: Oh, Ms. Kelloway is here too?</h4>


    She pretended to know nothing and took the initiative to greet Lady Octavia, "Mom, you’re here. I’m sorry, I was asleep and didn’te out to greet you right away. Oh, Ms. Kelloway is here too?"


    Joanna looked at Reba and deliberately put on a very surprised and unexpected expression, "Honey, you only told me that Mom wasing, but you didn’t tell me that Ms. Kelloway was here too. Did Ms. Kellowaye with Mom?"


    Ashton Heath did not tell her that Reba was here as well.


    But Joanna knew.


    She had heard the conversation between Lady Octavia and Reba outside earlier.


    She said this on purpose to make Reba upset.


    She knew what mattered most to Reba and understood how to make her feel ufortable.


    When she called Ashton her "honey", Reba’s face had already turned sour.


    After she finished speaking, the resentment in Reba’s eyes was about to spill out.


    Joanna looked at Reba’s gloomy expression, unable to vent her anger, and smiled, "Mom, Ms. Kelloway, please sit down. By the way, what would you like to drink? Did the secretary prepare it?"


    She spoke to Lady Octavia and Reba as if she were the hostess.


    After all these actions, both Lady Octavia’s and Reba’s faces darkened a couple of shades.


    Lady Octavia was a little better, but Reba’s face was extremely unpleasant.


    It was because Joanna was mainly targeting her.


    Those words were mainly for her to hear.


    Reba wasn’t stupid, so she definitely felt it.


    However, in front of Lady Octavia and Ashton, she could only suppress her anger and pretend to know nothing.


    Nevertheless, seeing Joanna so close to Ashton, calling him "honey," she felt an overwhelming jealousy.


    What she couldn’t ept even more was the look in Ashton’s eyes when he looked at Joanna.


    Such focused pampering...


    It seemed as if she was the only one in his eyes.


    Such gaze, full of love and devotion, had never appeared in her dreams.


    If only... he would look at her with the same eyes, she would probably feel like the happiest person in the world.


    But she had been waiting for him for more than twenty years.


    Yet, he gave all his love to another woman.


    She really couldn’t ept it.


    If loving him was destined to end like this, then what was the point of her twenty years of devotion?


    He didn’t even feel touched for a moment.


    Reba felt sadder and more distressed the more she thought about it, and despite trying to hold it in, she couldn’t help but say with a hint of sarcasm, "Ms. Joanna doesn’t need to entertain us. With Lady Octavia visiting her son’spany, the secretary would not dare to neglect us, and we don’t need Ms. Joanna to worry about these things."


    "As for Ms. Joanna saying she was asleep, I noticed it’s already past lunchtime. Why would Ms. Joanna sleep at this hour?"


    These words from Reba seemed normal on the surface.


    But any person with a little bit of insight could hear that there was another meaning in her words.


    As soon as she finished speaking, Lady Octavia’s face darkened nearby.


    "Reba is right. Ashton is my son, and I’m visiting hispany. There are plenty of people to serve me. There are no outsiders here, so there’s no need for you to be so polite. It’s already sote, and you’re still sleeping. You didn’t sleep earlier orter, but when Reba and I came, you were sleeping."