Chapter 487

Gwen had been having a tough time in the Stone household lately. Thanks to the incident she and Beverly had stirred up, neither Aster nor her husband nor Finley wanted anything to do with her. Though the second branch of the family hadn’t been implicated, the whole affair had made it painfully clear that Gwen truly despised Finely's son. For Finley, that was simply unacceptable. And Aster was even more displeased. As a result, everyone in the second branch had been treating Gwen coldly for days. Even her father-in-law acted as though she were invisible. No one openly reprimanded her, but the icy indifference cut deeper than words ever could. From then on, Gwen grew even more disheartened. After all, ever since she married into the family, she might not have contributed anything extraordinary, but she had certainly put in her share of effort. Besides, the only reason Finley had married her in the first place was because she was a daughter of the Castro family, and it had been Aster who