"Yes, I'm making a visit. You're not feeling well?" Maddie asked in concern. "What's wrong? Do you need to see the doctor? I'll call the family doctor to stop by."
She followed Kaden back into the house and placed the gifts she prepared on the coffee table. Kaden glanced over them and saw they were all expensive supplements and health foods.
There was no need for the Zellers to buy things of the sort because the moment they ran out, they only had to make a call to Maddie for her to hurriedly send some home.
If she was giving them to her parents, Kaden had no comments about it, because it was normal for children to show filial piety to their parents. However, most of the time, the stuff she brought home was divided up between her siblings. Rarely, or not at all, was any left for her parents.
When they needed more, they would call Maddie.
All these years, the Zellers were used to mooching off of Maddie because the Flemmings were much better off, and Everly was their only offspring. The Zellers coveted the considerable assets that were all to be left to Everly in the future.
However, Everly was not close to her mother's siblings, so they could only try to leech off the Flemmings through Maddie.
If they bought those supplements themselves, at the rate they were consuming them, they could spend hundreds of thousands of dollars per month.
“I'm fine, just tired. I just need some rest. There's no need to call the family doctor." Kaden stopped Maddie from calling the family doctor.
Then, he said, "Maddie, have a seat. There's something I want to talk to you about."
At this, Maddie felt a little nervous and guilty because she had listened to her brother Steven and arranged a blind date for Everly, and even told the guy to go to Clearfield Hotel despite her daughter's refusal.
She knew what happened afterward.
Nate offended her daughter. However, Steven called Maddie to complain about Everly scorning his good intentions and accused her of being a useless mother who could not keep her daughter in line and had not taught Everly to respect her elders.
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Maddie did not dare to scold her daughter, but Steven had complained, so she thought of giving him some gifts as an apology. Thus, she grabbed some supplements from home and prepared to make a visit to Steven.
"What's the matter, Dad?" Maddie asked.
"Sit down."
She made a sound of acquiescence as she carefully sat down opposite her father- in-law.
Once she sat down, Kaden asked her, "How are your parents?"
Maddie's parents were about his age, but while he was still helming the Flemmings, they retired long ago and simply focused on spending time with their grandchildren. They did not come out of retirement despite the family business going on the decline.
They merely came over a few times to beg him to give their company a hand so they did not go bankrupt and close down, citing the fact that it was their livelihood.
He helped them out of consideration
for their ties as in-laws, and because of Maddie's loyalty when her husband, Ike, passed away
unexpectedly when Maddie was still very young she could have made the decision to abort the child and remarry, but she had not
disregarding all her birth family's protests and insisting on giving birth to Ike's child.