When they reached the doorway at the hotel, Kathy said to the man beside her, “Thank you.”
Reece nodded indifferently. When he raised his vision, he immediately met with a sharp gaze.
Joseph was staring at him coldly from a distance away.
Curling his lips slightly, Reece asked Kathy,
“Do you want me to send you back?”
“It’s okay, I’ve already gave you a lot of trouble today,” Kathy replied.
With that said, she quickly headed for the door. However, a familiar figure emerged in front of her.
Black suit, white shirt, and the aloof good-looking features.
He was standing in her way.
Why… why was he here?
Thousands of thoughts ran through Kathy’s mind in that instant, and one stood out particularly- he
didn’t marry Ella.
But she just couldn’t believe it.
She said in an indifferent tone, “Can you let me through?”
Joseph frowned and didn’t move an inch.
His expression in his eyes gradually darkened.
His menacing aura trembled Kathy.
“Joseph,” she said in a colder tone.
Their interaction attracted some passers-by’s attention.
“Hmm.” After a short while, he slowly moved towards the car at the door, which had been long waiting
for him.
As she watched him left, Kathy felt Joseph was so lonely at that moment.
But how was that possible.
Wasn’t he supposed to be with Ella right now?
Why was he leaving by himself…?
Kathy looked at him leaving in a daze until he was out of her sight.
Dylan walked up to her and asked,
“Aren’t you going in?”
Kathy finally came back to her senses. But she didn’t reply.
She walked towards the bus station which was at the other side of the road.
Dylan followed her to the bus station.
“Are you going back to the school?” he asked.
Kathy nodded, her mind was filled with the scene of Joseph leaving. She murmured, “How was the
wedding?”
“Not good. The bride was taken away by someone else,” Dylan replied.
Kathy frowned and turned around. “Are you kidding me?”
“It’s up to you to believe what I just said,” he said.
No more words were exchanged after that. After a while, the bus arrived. Dylan followed her onto the
bus.
When they reached the school, Kathy finally said, “Stop following me around, Dylan.”
“All right, I’ll leave you here. But I haven’t got your WeChat yet.” He handed her his phone.
“I’m not interested in you,” Kathy said coldly.
Dylan grabbed hold of her wrist when she was about to get off the bus. “I’m not interested in you too,
Kathy. What we are having is just a commercial marriage for the sake of our family.”
Kathy was repellent. She didn’t want the marriage even if it was what Jennifer demanded.
She yanked her hand out of his grip and left.
…
At the Joseph family’s mansion.
Veronica didn’t attend the wedding. She got a phone call from her brother before she left the house and
had been waiting for him there.
They had been keeping this wedding at such a low profile that no media or news reported was aware of
it. Thus, Veronica had no idea what was going on.
When she saw her brother came back, he was still in a suit, noble as always, butElla was not at his
side.
And he wasn’t supposed to be coming back home alone.
“Joseph, what’s going on?” she asked.
“The wedding has been canceled.” Joseph’s expression was aloof as always.
Veronica was stunned and stared at Joseph blankly. There was nothing but exhaustion in his eyes.
“You had known this all along,” Veronica accused.
Joseph didn’t reply her and went upstairs.
Veronica looked at Joseph’s back and recalled how he had asked her to get close to Ella to gather
intelligence about the Bridges family. He must have been planning something since then.
She had known it was impossible for Joseph to marry another woman when he was so dedicated to
Kathy.
Thinking of this, Veronica had mixed feelings in her heart. Apparently, Kathy had always been the only
person her brother cared about.
…
Back at the dorm.
Zofia wasn’t at the dorm. Kathy went to her bed right away when she got back to her room. She didn’t
wake up until late in the evening.
Zofia got back early because she was worried about Kathy who wasn’t answering her call.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Kathy sitting at her desk.
“Kathy, why didn’t you answer my call? I was so worried about you,” she said.
Only then did Kathy rummage through her bag and took out her phone.
“Sorry, I silent my phone,” Kathy replied.
“Where had you been today?” Zofia asked casually.
She knew it was Joseph’s wedding that day. But since she had class and she wasn’t really interested
anyway, she didn’t attend it.
However, she knew how Kathy must have felt with the wedding.
Kathy was probably having a bad day.
“I went to the hotel,” Kathy answered.
“You went to the wedding?” Zofia was a bit surprised.
“But it seems… the wedding was canceled halfway,” Kathy added.
Zofia stunned and looked at Kathy’s calm expression. There was a moment of silence.
It was cancelled?
Zofia couldn’t help but think Kathy was the reason behind the cancellation.
“What happened?” Zofia was confused.
“I’m not quite sure. But I don’t want to care about anything regarding Joseph,” Kathy said.
That sentence sounded more like a reminder to herself rather than a reply to Zofia.
Zofia actually asked Veronica about this. But all she knew was that Ella got taken away halfway
through the wedding. But what really happened remained an unknown.
Furthermore, the families involved must have taken action to prevent any news regarding the wedding
from leaking.
Shortly after the event, it was the final exam period for the semester. Kathy immersed herself in her
revision and didn’t meet Joseph even once until the exams were over.
That man seemed to be completely disappeared from her life.
After taking the last exam, her course mates were busy planning for a course trip, but Kathy got a
message notified her to join the R&D in Joseph’s Group during the holidays.
It wasn’t a mandatory commitment but an optional one, since it was during the semester break.
But she seemed to not have any plans for her holiday.
And she found out the other two students who participated in the R&D alongside her had decided to
join during the semester break.
As for her…
Kathy didn’t make the decision and stayed in school for a few days after the semester break started.
She only left the dorm when Jennifer asked her to go over for dinner.
Zofia left for home as soon as the holiday started. It was quiet in the campus.
Kathy’s gaze fell on the podium when she passed by the classroom.
The scene of Joseph giving lecture emerged in her mind. He was a strict but kind-hearted lecturer.
He always managed to handle his role as a lecturer well.
Soon enough, that vague image faded from her mind. When Kathy came back to her senses and
turned to leave, her eyes met a familiar gaze.
It had been half a month since the last time they met.
It felt like ages ago.
The same white shirt and black slack, his tall figure looked elegant under the sunlight.
He didn’t stop to look at Kathy. He simply moved pass her and left.
Kathy could only look at him leaving.
She bit her lips hard, trying to hold back the enormous emotion of despair that had just struck her.
She had really missed him.
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