Bought For A Baby, Kept For A Lifetime-Chapter 167: Who Rules?

"Actually, I don’t really want to be the family mistress."

At first both women looked extremely shocked, absolutely not believing what they’d heard before both of them exchanged glances and laughed as if they’d heard a funny joke.

"Surely you must be kidding, who would get such a chance and not want it?" Elara said laughingly.

"Though I appreciate the fact that grandfather thought me worthy enough but my priority is my marriage, a position of family mistress will just be more responsibility to carry." Anne looked for an excuse to make her rejection of the highly coveted position sound believable.

"Listen, this position won’t take away from your marital duties at all. Do you know what it actually means to be the mistress of a family like the Sterling’s?

"We are just from the second branch, but the amount of respect we get from society, we’re treated like queens wherever we go, now imagine if it were the real family mistress. You could enjoy so many privileges, luxury cars at your disposal, you just have to choose, you will have access to the entire Sterling safe, a personal account handed to you specifically with a fixed monthly income worth hundreds of millions even if you never work a day in your life from now on, you can still enjoy a high class living style. Servants will wait on you hand and foot and all you have to do is command. Expensive vacations, free access to all of the family’s private aircrafts to fly to any part of the world you wish to go to and so much more that I can’t even begin to mention, I refuse to believe that you’ll just reject all that just for marital responsibility."

Fiona explained and she hadn’t been exaggerating. They knew the taste of luxury because of the Sterling family name, but it didn’t compare to even a fraction of what the family’s acknowledged mistress could enjoy.

The family mistress could literally consider herself like an empress in an ancient dynasty or something even more.

Both Fiona and Elara didn’t believe that after hearing all this, Anne could still continue to reject the position.

Looking at her attire, she was dressed simply. No luxury pieces but she still looked absolutely lovely. It was a trademark for gorgeous women, no matter what they wore, they would still look elegant and expensive, however no woman would reject the opportunity to enjoy the luxurious life of having the most expensive things given to them without them even raising a finger to work for it.

Just as Anne parted her lips to speak, she didn’t expect another voice which had just arrived to interrupt her.

"I believe my daughter in law is a very smart woman."

Whirling her head to the side, a dazzling woman sauntered into the parlor room, three of the estate’s staff trailing behind her quietly as if they were just following her for no reason at all.

Jennifer Sterling had a seductive smile on her lips as her eyes scanned the room then finally settled on Anne.

"You see, she knows what is rightful for her and what isn’t. For someone like her who knows her place, she knows how to remain on the safe side. However for you two, my husband told me that you both are from the second family branch, actually you both should have no blood relations to the original Sterling family am I right?"

Elara rolled her eyes, a silent sneer hanging on her lips. And Fiona remained silent.

"For people who have no blood relations to the Sterlings, you both have surely gotten too comfortable. As the mistress of this family, my husband has explained to me clearly what my responsibilities are. And taking care of people who overstep their boundaries seems to be one of them."

Jennifer’s eyes studied the two women, one of them was especially sore to her eyes due to the fact that the woman didn’t hide any ridicule or disdain she felt towards Jennifer.

"Mistress of the family? Do you actually feel so confident because you managed to get Michael Sterling to marry you? Don’t get all cocky, for all you know you’re just one of his random women, the only thing you have over the women before you is that wedding ring around your finger, it doesn’t make you the queen here." Elara wasn’t scared at all as she spoke.

She’d enjoyed respect for the longest time she couldn’t bring herself to show respect to someone else, especially not Jennifer who was already acting all high and mighty on the very first day she entered the estate.

If Elara was given a choice, she would much rather Anne was given the position of the mistress, Anne was easier to get along but this woman seemed to look at everyone as if they were dirt beneath her feet, it made others feel small and feeling small was very uncomfortable for someone like Elara.

Despite hearing every word Elara said, Jennifer’s expression remained the same. In fact she smiled brightly looking confident.

"You must be missing something, I’m very different from any other woman my husband has been with in the past." She strolled towards Elara, standing over her she glanced down at her from her standing position.

"The difference is that I was given power, and I can do absolutely anything I want. If you don’t believe I’m this family’s mistress, I’ll prove it to you." Jennifer calmly glanced at the maids who had been following her,

"I want this woman out of this estate, and from this moment on, she should not be allowed to step a foot in here ever again. Toss her out!" Jennifer’s voice was authoritative and firm as she gave this order.

The maids hesitated a bit looking torn. Elara was a member of the family so they weren’t too sure about that order.

"Are you all deaf? I said toss this woman out!"

The maids quickly came back to their senses.

If they weighed things, Jennifer was Micheal’s wife, disobeying her was like disobeying him, especially after he’d said that she was the real family mistress. Disobeying the mistress was absolutely forbidden.

They instantly moved, grabbing Elara who looked shocked that they dared to treat her like that.

"What are you doing? Get your hands off me!" Elara screeched in fury.

"Mrs Sterling, you don’t have to do this to her. She just spoke a bit too hastily." Though they had a strange rivalry, Fiona still couldn’t see Elara being humiliated so she quickly spoke up, however Jennifer glared furiously at her.

"It seems you want to join her. Haven’t you realized how you’re supposed to address me yet? Not Mrs Sterling, but as your mistress."

Fiona’s mouth glued shut, she couldn’t believe the woman was actually making her address her respectfully. Though they were not blood related to the Sterlings they still held some position, how could she address the woman the same way the servants would?

Jennifer returned her gaze to the maids.

"What are you still waiting for?"

The three maids began to use their strength on Elara, pulling her along.

At this moment, Anne couldn’t take it anymore, she stood up and stopped the maid by calling.

"Wait." The set of maids suddenly stopped to glance at her.

"Please let her go." Anne said softly. They were dragging the woman away so disrespectfully, Anne didn’t think she’d done anything wrong enough to deserve being treated like that even if she’d said a few words to Jennifer that crossed the line. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

The maids hearing this instruction from Anne froze before they instantly released Elara.

Anne’s word was something they couldn’t ponder about or delay to obey, that was because before Jennifer herself arrived, the old master had already strictly handed the position of family mistress to her as his grandson’s wife.

Jennifer, noticed how swiftly the staff gave in to Anne’s word and her expression turned ugly as she reared her head in Anne’s direction, her eyes narrowed threateningly.