“Bertie, what do you mean?”
Kathy never would have thought that the car her grandfather sent to pick her up would also be picking
Bertie up too.
And that they were both going to the same place.
“It was your grandfather who invited me to stay at your house as a guest. You perhaps did not know,
but when I was younger I stayed at the Booth’s house for a period of time. Your grandfather always
hoped that he would have a granddaughter, so that I could marry her.”
“You are just speaking nonsense!” Kathy interrupted him.
She was not able to believe what Bertie was saying.
However the expression on Bertie’s face made it seem like he was not lying.
“Kathy, you have to believe that our fate was destined from a very young age." Bertie raised his thin
lips.
“I’m already married.” Kathy said in a rather righteous way.
“Well no one can predict what will happen in the future, Kathy, I don’t mind being with a woman who
has married once before.”
Kathy was speechless for a few seconds.
“I have a very happy family now, so Mr. Marshall, please would you stay away from me!”
Bertie narrowed his eyes and said, “It seems that currently we are not on intimate enough terms with
each other yet.”
Kathy pushed open the door and got out of the car, not paying any more attention to him.
Compared to the extravagant ancient castle that the Booth reside in within City N, the Booth’s estate in
Country B had a European style garden which made the property seem mysterious, quiet and rather
low profile.
Jennifer came out from the living room and said, “Kathy, you’ve arrived! Did Bertie arrive too?”
“Yes, Mr Booth and I have something to talk about. Therefore I'm afraid that I will be disturbing you for
a short period of time here.” Bertie said politely.
Jennifer nodded, “I will go and get someone to arrange a room for you now.”
Bertie started to walk towards the study as if he had been there before. Kathy watched the back of him
as he walked away; she never expected that what he had just said was true.
“Kathy, were you and Bertie on the same flight?”
“Yes.” Kathy’s face was rather indifferent, as she thought about how she would have to be living with
him while she stayed here; it made her feel very uncomfortable.
Jennifer seemed to be able to sense Kathy’s emotions and therefore went to lightly pat Kathy’s
shoulders and said, “Bertie’s father was very close with your grandfather, therefore that child used to
often come to our home. Because of this your grandfather regarded him as half a son.”
Kathy really was not interested in anything to do with Bertie, and therefore her face remained
disinterested.
As she went up to her room, she didn’t expect that Bertie would be staying in the room opposite her.
Kathy ignored him.
However Bertie stepped forward blocked her way and asked, “Tonight I will be cooking something, what
do you like to eat?”
“Whatever.”
“Are you not able to be a little nicer with me? I will be staying here for quite some time; therefore you
can’t just keep brushing me away giving me the cold shoulder.”
Kathy put on a serious expression and looked at Bertie, “So, let’s both just leave each other alone
then.”
“Such a cruel woman, can’t we at least be friends?”
“Mr. Marshall, could it be that you have no other friends?” Kathy asked very displeased.
“Yes, not many.”
“I’m bored.” Kathy entered her room and closed the door loudly with a bang.
Bertie however had a smile on his face; he seemed to be having a lot of fun teasing this woman.
At this moment, Jennifer came up and when she passed by and saw Bertie standing in front of Kathy’s
bedroom door her face darkened.
“Jennifer,” Bertie politely greeted her when he saw her.
“Why did my father make you come here at this time?” Jennifer frowned.
She remembered that before Zack did not really like Kathy and Joseph being together.
Zack once said before that if he had a granddaughter then the man he would prefer the most to be his
son in law was Bertie.
And as for the Marshall family, the Booth family knew almost everything about them.
However, in the end Kathy was already married, and being her mother she did not wish to interfere too
much.
Although, it seemed as if Zack was not thinking the same way as her.
“Official business.” Bertie raised his eyebrows.
…
In the evening, Kathy had a conversation with her grandfather and then planned to go to the kitchen to
help prepare the food.
However she never thought that Bertie was actually serious about making the food himself.
He had always been an honourable son of a rich family, therefore she did not think that he would have
the ability cook, however he seemed to be very confident in his cooking skills.
But since Kathy did not want to be in the same room as him, she turned her head and left.
But because Bertie saw her he called out to her and said, “Kathy, come over here and help me.”
“I don’t have the time.” Kathy did not want to speak with him.
“Otherwise I can’t be too sure when we will be able to eat dinner.” Bertie curled his thin lips coldly.
Kathy frowned, “What about getting a servant to come help you?”
“Right now only you are able to help me.”
As he finished speaking he handed her a plate with raw vegetables on it.
“Can you cook this dish?”
Kathy remained silent.
Kathy took the plate blankly and walked into the kitchen.
Bertie crossed his arms, leaned against the wall and watched her calmly.
Kathy was looking a little tense; she felt his eyes piercing through her from behind. She just wanted to
hurry up and finish what she had to do.
As she picked up the seasoning bottle next to her, Bertie stretched out his hand and passed her
another seasoning bottle, “this is salt.”
“Oh.” Kathy coldly answered him.
“It seems that you don’t cook so often.” Bertie stroked his chin.
“Yes.”
Bertie was surprisingly not angry at her cold attitude towards him and it seemed he was actually
smiling.
When Kathy finished cooking the dish, he continued to ask her to help with the other things that needed
to be done.
“Bertie, you did it on purpose!” Kathy was annoyed.
If she didn’t have to worry about making sure everyone could eat dinner at an appropriate time then
she would have stopped helping by now.
“Of course, I cherish the time alone with you very much.”
“Don’t say anything.” Kathy stared at him.
If what he just said was heard by someone else then it would be very easy for someone to
misunderstand this completely.
“Ok, I will listen to you.” Bertie obediently closed his mouth and stopped talking.
After this, Bertie really did quieten down and focused on his cooking.
When Jennifer helped Zack to sit down, Kathy had just brought the vegetable dish over to the table.
“Kathy, why are you preparing the meal?” Jennifer was unhappy by this.
“I recently let some of the servants take a vacation, to let them enjoy their youth and be busy.” Zack
said.
“Grandfather, I was happy to do this.”
Jennifer paused and her gaze fell onto Kathy and Bertie.
“Bertie, tonight you have worked hard and prepared this meal for us, thank you.” Jennifer was always
polite to Bertie.
“Because of Kathy’s help it was no problem at all.”
Kathy lowered her eyes and didn’t say anything.
The relationship between Zack and Bertie seemed to be a very close one. Although they mainly just
discuss business related matters, the two of them are long time old family friends, and began
cooperating with each other long ago. Bertie also understood Zack’s temperament and preferences
very well, so it could be said the atmosphere at the table was very harmonious and friendly.
“Kathy, how about I entrust this project to you?”
Kathy paused since just now she had not been paying attention to what the two of them had been
saying.
She raised her head and looked at Bertie with a puzzled look.
Bertie said, “Recently I have been thinking that I would like to create a new medicine. Kathy, in the past
you have had experience in this field before, and you are part of the the Booth family, therefore your
grandfather was thinking to make you fully responsible and in charge of this research and
development.”
Kathy was confused; she had only been here in Country B for 3 months now.
In addition, since it still needed to be researched and developed, this would surely take a long time to
do.
“I…”
“My granddaughter, my time here is running out, I have been asking Bertie to look after all of the Booth
Group’s properties. However these were always to be given to you, you can start to take over the
industries and properties now.”
The way that Zack said this was if it was an order.
“Father, Kathy is still attending graduate school. Wouldn’t this give her too much stress right now?”
Jennifer frowned rather displeased.
“She is not so young anymore; she has already been working for 3 years now.” Zack said rather
solemnly.
“Kathy, what do you think?” Bertie looked over at Kathy.
Kathy pursed her lips, although her grandfather before said that he wanted her to take over the Booth
Group, the truth was she had never prepared herself to actually undertake this.
In addition, she also did not have much desire for this either.
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