Sherlyn then looked at Melinda and Lilin. 'This woman is pretty too, and she even brought a kid! Sh*t! Don't tell me the kid is Dad's illegitimate daughter! Corinne was already bad enough, and now we have to deal with this, too?'
Sherlyn frowned in alarm. "Who are you guys? And what business do you have with my dad?"
"I'm an old friend of your father, and I've come to ask him something," answered Emily.
'An old friend?' Sherlyn knew things were not as simple as they seemed, so she did not want to cooperate with them.
"My dad is out fishing. He won't be back for quite some time. You should come another day if you want to talk to him."
Emily was not going to give up that easily since she was already there. "He can't possibly be out fishing the whole day. We're not in a hurry, and we don't mind waiting for him inside."
Sherlyn's frown deepened. 'So she's not going to let up that easily, huh?'
"I told you that my dad isn't home, and I don't know any of you. What if you rob me or something after I let you in? You should call my dad if you're in a hurry to see him. Now get out of my way. The sun is burning me. I need to slather on some lotion so I don't get sunburn."
Sherlyn pushed away Emily and Melinda, took out her key to open the door, and quickly went inside her house.
Emily wanted to push her way in, but Sherlyn closed the door too fast for her to do that.
Melinda had guessed by then who the mansion belonged to.
Lilliana was elsewhere playing cards, so it took her some time to answer her daughter's call.
"What is it, Sherlyn? I'm busy right now!" she said impatiently.
"Mom, how can you say you're busy when you're just playing bridge? Look, two pretty women who are about the same age as you are standing outside our door right now! They say they're here to talk to Dad. One of them even has a seven or eight-year-old kid with her! There's definitely something going on, and if you don't come back now, you'll lose your husband!"
"What? How dare those hussies try to steal my husband? Where's your father now? Is he home?"
"No, he's not. That's why I'm telling you; you should come back right away! You have to get rid of them before Dad gets home. What if his heart goes soft for those women again? We'll have nowhere to go then! You should know very well that Dad doesn't really care about us anymore after what that b*tch Corinne did. I don't have a job right now, so if he kicks us out of the house, we'll end up homeless and starving!"
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