Katherine also lowered her voice, “Did you send me home last night?”
Marshall was quiet for a while, but Katherine can hear people talking over the phone.
He was probably in a meeting.
Katherine blinked her eyes and said, “Okay, call me back when you are available.”
Then she just hung up the phone and started zoning out on the sofa.
Hector’s SIM card was still in her home, so she ought to send it to him.
After waiting for a while, Marshall didn’t call her back, so Katherine grabbed a cab to Kyle’s place.
Hector was not in Bennett’s house now and would sleep at Kyle’s once in a while.
Kyle was still sleeping when Katherine went over, so she asked the waiter to call him.
Barefooted, Kyle went out in pajamas, “What’s wrong? Why are you here so early?”
Katherine asked whether he knew where Hector was and took out his SIM card.
Kyle paused, “Hector dropped this in your yard? Where is his phone?”
Katherine heaved a sigh, “It’s broken.”
Kyle scratched his head, “Well, was he so wasted last night? I didn’t know where did he sleep. I
headed directly here. I will ask someone to find him. He should be fine. Don’t worry about it.”
Katherine actually wasn’t worried about Hector’s safety for he had been living alone for years and
definitely wouldn’t be injured on his home turf.
Kyle also looked puzzled about last night, so Katherine just gave up interrogating him.
Katherine didn’t stay long at Kyle’s place. She left Hector’s SIM card there and went to her store.
Margaret was already buried in work.
Katherine went over, “When did you guys leave yesterday?”
Margaret didn’t drink too much and recalled, “About ten o’clock. Then I went to find you when you went
missing.”
Katherine still couldn’t bring to her mind about what happened after she’d gone to the bathroom.
Margaret then added, “I was absolutely shocked when Hector bolted out after he heard that you were
picked up by Marshall. I thought something horrible must have happened.”
Katherine chuckled, “He was probably afraid that Marshall would beat me up when I’m unconscious.”
After all, Hector was there when Marshall almost got physical with her.
She then helped Margaret to organize and got Marshall’s call after a while.
He said that he was in Katherine’s home.
Katherine paused, “What are you doing there? You can just give me a call!”
Marshall smiled, “Where are you? Just get back. I’m at your doorstep.”
Katherine checked the time and found that it was lunch break.
She actually didn’t want to meet Marshall now for she felt like that she had said everything perfectly
clear that day. Moreover, she would get vexed every time she thought about how they fought.
But still, she felt she owed Marshall one since he drove her home yesterday.
After thinking for a while, Katherine answered okay and hung up.
She then bade farewell to Margaret and called a taxi.
To her surprise, Marshall was sitting on the sofa and watching TV when she went home.
“How did you get in here?” Katherine was dumbfounded.
Marshall pointed upstairs, “I told you to shut the balcony door. How come that you never listen?”
Katherine meant to say thanks to Marshall before, but now, she didn’t feel the need to do so.
Face darkened, Katherine sat opposite to Marshall, “You sent me home yesterday? You didn’t do
anything appropriate to me, did you?”
Marshall grinned, “Well, you seem disappointed. You can tell me whatever you want. I will for sure play
along.”
Frowned, Katherine replied, “You have absolutely no sense of shame.”
Then she continued, “Did you see Hector last night?”
Marshall paused, “Hector? Why would you ask that?”
“Well, his phone was broken to pieces at my doorstep yesterday. Did you do that? You didn’t get
physical with him, did you?”
Marshall muttered after pausing for a second. “Am I just this kind of person to you?”
‘Well, sure. He punched at Hector’s nose on the second floor before and the bruises on Hector’s nose
didn’t go away for days.’ Katherine thought inside.
Marshall snorted, “Rest assured. We didn’t fight. I actually got quite along with Hector.”
Katherine didn’t buy his words at all.
Lips pursed, Katherine said, “Well, you are quite in a good mood today. Weren’t you quite formidable?”
Marshall let out a sarcastic smile, “Not as tough as you.”
They were at each other’s throats that day, but still, he was the one who got defeated.
Then they didn’t contact with each other for days, but this woman still looked as merry as ever and he
turned out to be edgy all day.
Marshall now had a new perspective on his relationship with Katherine.
There was no way that Katherine would be docile if he chose to be all domineering when he was with
her for it would just backfire.
He must chime in with her.
She was as rebellious as she can be now and he was unable to tame her.
Marshall would feel contented and joyful every time he thought about Hector’s face last night.
It seemed like that he had vented all the anger that he had bottled up that day.
“Katherine, can we please just stop fighting and be nice to each other?”
This was the first time ever that Mr. Grant had swallowed his pride and talked to someone so meekly.
Katherine sneered, “I have never wanted to quarrel with you myself. You had gone too far.”
Marshall didn’t want to reason with her and just nodded, “Right, it’s all my fault.”
‘Well, I had got what I wanted yesterday, so it’s no harm to be lectured by her.’ Marshall talked to
himself inside.
Katherine felt there was nothing to say to Marshall now, so she stood up, “Well, you can leave now.”
Marshall then grinned, “Could you cook noodles for me? I haven’t had lunch yet. Could you please do it
as I sent you home yesterday?”
Marshall didn’t care about whether Katherine would call him shameless at this point.
Katherine paused and stared at Marshall for a moment. She then went into the kitchen.
It was actually quite easy to fix him noodles as she had all the materials.
There were still eggs, beef minces and veggies left. These were staples in her noodles.
She got some salted pickles that she made from the fridge and took it out.
Marshall looked at the noodles and felt familiar.
Sitting across Marshall, Katherine texted Kyle to see if he had found Hector.
Kyle immediately texted back and said that Hector was with Rosalie now to discuss the talent show
details. He also added that Hector didn’t know that he had dropped the phone and thought that he had
lost it.
Marshall and Katherine didn’t talk to each other the whole time.
Marshall was quite pleased and ate all the noodles even with the soup.
He burped and said, “I haven’t got so full for a long time.”
Katherine chortled, “Is that so? The Grants is quite stingy, huh?”
As she was about to clear all the dishes, Marshall stood up and said, “Allow me.”
He then put all the dishes into the dishwasher.
Katherine was texting with her legs crossed on the sofa when he went to the living room.
Marshall can well figure out who she was texting to.
He leaned against the kitchen door and said, “Your store name sounded horrible.”
Katherine chuckled and didn’t look away from her phone, “Well, suck it up. I didn’t open the store for
you.”
Marshall beamed and thought why was she so sharp-tongued towards him? However, it seemed like
that she only got a bad attitude towards him, so in a way, he was special in her mind.
Marshall checked the time and said, “I’m gonna go. Remember to shut the balcony door.”
Katherine just nodded and didn’t say anything.
Marshall glanced at her and found her quite sexy and erotic though she was just sitting on the sofa
drowsily. It was probably because that he entangled with her quite fervently last night. She looked like a
mature woman to him.
Marshall exhaled silently and felt that his chest was heaving up and down violently.
Marshall got on his car and found that Frances texted him.
She said that they hadn’t had dinner together for a while and wondered if he had time tonight.
Well, it was true that he hadn’t seen Frances for days, so he texted that he was available.
After reading Marshall’s text, Frances beamed and immediately texted Clara.
Clara was taking a break in her office and grinned when she saw Frances’ text.
She texted back a smiley face and said thanks.
Frances immediately wrote back, “Don’t mention it. We’re a family.”
####Chapter 333 He Can’t Let Go of Her
Marshall was overwhelmed with work all afternoon and got Frances’ call when he got off work.
She said that she would be waiting for him in a western restaurant.
Marshall didn’t give it too much thought for he knew that Frances got his taste.
After packing up, he drove over.
Frances was at the Mason’s mansion all day long and was probably afraid that someone might see her
alone and she wouldn’t be able to explain it.
Old Mr. Mason was confined to bed for days before for being mad at her taking a divorce with Khalid.
People knew that Old Mr. Mason was sick but didn’t know exactly why. So Frances just took that as an
excuse to live in the Mason’s justifiably.
Frances actually surprised a lot of people when she got divorced with Khalid.
For one thing, she was quite straight and just signed her name on the divorce paper without acting up
or whatsoever.
And for another, Khalid was actually quite generous and gave Frances a lot when he divided the
property, but Frances didn’t take a bit and just left.
The Old Mrs. Grant was even stupefied, because from her understanding, Frances was not such a
person.
In her eyes, Frances definitely would take advantage of this opportunity and ask for a ton.
But Marshall actually knew what Frances was up to by doing this.
Khalid was a quite soft-hearted man and would always feel guilty towards her now that Frances didn’t
take a thing.
And with this sense of guilt, they wouldn’t have a clean break.
This was exactly what Frances wanted.
Marshall suddenly thought of his divorce with Katherine.
When they departed with each other, Katherine accepted everything that he gave to her and directly
signed the paper without even give a thorough reading to it.
Well, she probably didn’t want anything to do with him and had officially let go of the past.
But Marshall felt that he was the one who can’t move on.
Marshall drove to the restaurant and directly went to find the private room that Frances had booked.
But Clara was the one in the room when he opened the door.
She looked equally shocked as he was.
“Marshall?”
Standing by the door, Marshall asked, “You are here alone?”
Clara blinked her eyes and looked innocent, “Right, auntie Frances said that she wanted to have dinner
with me and told me to wait here.”
“Did you come here with auntie Frances?”
The drinks had already been served.
It looked like that Clara had been waiting for a while.
Marshall didn’t go further and just said, “I’m sorry. My mother must have got mistaken.”
At the drop of his sound, the waiter came in with the dishes, “Sir, here is the food you’ve ordered.”
Marshall had no choice but to enter the room to clear the way for the waiter.
Clara looked perplexed, “What happened? Did auntie Frances tell you to be here?”
Marshall didn’t answer and gave Frances a call.
Her phone was off.
Marshall sneered and immediately figured out what was going on.
Clara stood up and said bewilderingly, “What is going on?”
Marshall heaved a sigh, “Nothing really. My mom made a mistake. Well, this dinner is on me. I have to
be somewhere,”
“Well, won’t auntie Frances be here?” Clara stopped Marshall.
“Yeah, she is pretty occupied now.”
Clara looked complicated, “Well, auntie Frances had booked this room and ordered a bunch. I wouldn’t
be able to finish all the dishes myself. Marshall, have you had dinner yet? Why don’t we...”
Clara faltered and seemed to be in a dilemma.
Marshall glanced at Clara, “Don’t worry about it. You can just leave it. I’m not a fan of western dishes
anyway.”
Then he nodded at Clara and just left.
Clara slowly took her seat and looked defeated.
Marshall went out and drove to the old mansion.
Old Mrs. Grant was having dinner and was surprised to see Marshall home, “Didn’t you say that you’re
gonna eat out?”
Marshall washed his hand and entered the dining room, “Last-minute changes.”
The old mansion was serving Chinese food recently and Marshall actually liked it.
Old Mrs. Grant asked if Marshall wanted to accompany her to offer incenses to the Buddha in a few
days.
Marshall directly answered, “Well, I don’t have the time. You can ask Katherine.”
Old Mrs. Grant paused and teased, “Katherine? Well, I don’t think she would agree to do that with me.
You’re not together now and there is no reason to ask her to accompany me. She would only come
over last time for the Walters’ sake, but got gloomy when you came home all of a sudden.”
Marshall suddenly cracked a smile and looked at Old Mrs. Grant, “You hided that file on purpose,
right?”
Old Mrs. Grant raised the corner of her mouth, “You are really dull on this love matter. How can you be
so shrewd on business but so insensitive when it comes to love?”
Marshall nodded and chimed in, “Well I’ve probably spent way too intelligence on business.”
“Your aunt Lydia went to draw divination sticks for Lucas the other day and didn’t really get an
auspicious result. She didn’t have anything for two meals straight.”
Marshall frowned, “Well, the fortune telling thing is not that accurate, right? One can’t just believe it
blindly.”
“I actually want to take you there and draw a marriage-boding stick for you as well.”
“Another reason for me to skip that.” Marshall smiled, “If the result turns out to be like Lucas’, I probably
wouldn’t have appetite for meals for two days.”
Old Mrs. Grant chuckled, “I didn’t know that you would care about that. I thought that you wouldn’t care
for the result.”
Well, it was not that he would make much of it, it was just he would get a little bit upset if the result
turned out to be inauspicious.
Old Mrs. Grant heaved a sigh, “Marshall, when can you figure out what your heart really wants?”
Marshall paused while eating but ended up saying nothing.
After having dinner, Marshall went to the open lot in front of the main building and lighted a cigarette.
Then he got a text from one of his minions saying that Hector went to meet Katherine.
Marshall sneered and texted that he must stay on guard of what was happening in Katherine’s house
and keep track of how long had been Hector staying in Katherine’s home.
He must notify him if Hector stayed too long.
The minion texted back affirmative.
But Hector actually stood at Katherine’s doorstep for a long time and didn’t go in.
Katherine was occupied in the kitchen and didn’t notice Hector.
She got startled when Hector called her in the living room.
Katherine grinned while exiting the kitchen, “I heard that you went to discuss talent show matters with
Rosalie. How did it go? Have you finalized all the details?”
It looked like that Katherine didn’t know what happened last night.
Suppressing his inner discomfort, Hector answered, “While my appearance sequence won’t be
crystalized until they got some preliminary responses about the show from the audiences.”
Katherine nodded, “Well, it’s pretty reasonable. You definitely would become an instant hit.”
Hector wanted to smile but failed to crack one.
Staring at Katherine, Hector asked, “What are you feeling after having so much booze last night?”
“I had too much yesterday and just blacked out. Did you come by and send my phone back?”
Hector replied yes, “Marshall was here.”
Katherine nodded, “Yeah, I heard that he brought me home. He actually can be sweet once in a while.”
Hector recalled that Marshall looked like that he had showered before coming downstairs.
He wouldn’t just take a shower for no reason.
So, something must have happened...
Lips pursed, Hector asked in a while, “Did you remember what happened after coming home with
Marshall?”
Legged crossed on the sofa, Katherine replied, “I really didn’t have a clue about what happened after I
left the private room. Did I get crazy afterwards? How annoying.”
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