Chapter 260: Eleonore Scheme
Before dinner, Michael called Evelyn from his office. "Darling, I need to take Clara and Lucian back to the ancestral residence for a little while this evening. Enjoy a nice, peaceful dinner at home by yourself, okay?"
Evelyn assumed he was simply taking the twins to visit their grandparents for dinner. Besides, she wasn't particularly eager to run into Eleonore anyway.
"Alright, come back early tonight," she agreed sweetly.
Hanging up the phone, a prickle of guilt pierced Michael's heart. He swore to himself that he would put even more effort into easing the tensions in their family dynamics.
He would never, ever let his beloved Evelyn suffer a single shred of unfair treatment!
A short while later, when Michael stepped through the front doors of the Thorn ancestral estate holding Clara and Lucian, he instantly felt that the atmosphere in the grand living room was off.
