Xyla Quest let out a long, helpless sigh as she looked at Sharon Lindt. “Mom, I’ve nearly become a good-for-nothing person over the years. I don’t even know how to do chores anymore.”

Sharon laughed. “What’s the point of knowing how to do such things?”

She turned around and walked to the kitchen, pausing long enough to throw a parting remark to Leon Batton and Lynette Batton. “Take your hardworking mother with you to the living room and have some fruits.”

Then, she disappeared into the kitche