Katherine was lowering her head to check the cards. She simply knew someone came in without
thinking too much.
After sequencing all of her cards, she noted, “Come on, let’s decide who’s the landlord in this game.”
She felt someone was talking by her side when she finished speaking. That man seemed to be smiling
and joked, “You’re so relaxed.”
Katherine got startled. All of her motions stopped.
She stared at the cars in her hands and blinked her eyes in astonishment.
This sound was so familiar.
Katherine turned around slowly and looked that man from up and down.
Hector was carrying a smile when saying, “Your expression really tenses me up.”
Katherine put the cards down. She thought for a while and got up, asking, “You’re back. Why didn’t you
tell us early?”
Hector handed the luggage to the waiter on the other side and let them place it.
Then he sat down by Katherine’s side and picked up Katherines’ cars.
He replied in a calm manner, “I want to give you a surprise.”
Indeed, it was surprising, but to Katherine, it was also unprepared.
Hector said to the other two men, “Come on. Let’s continue your game.”
Those people also knew Hector. They looked at him and then lowered their heads to calculate cards in
their hands.
After land claim, Hector started playing cards and then continued to chat with Katherine, asking,
“Where is Kyle? I haven’t seen him. How come that you’re here alone?”
Katherine nodded and replied, “He is asleep upstairs.”
Hector was quite surprising, asking, “Why he is sleeping on this time? You have already come. Why
doesn’t he come downstairs to welcome you?”
It was a hard thing to explain because there so many things happened.
Katherine also didn’t understand the way to explain what happened between Kyle and Bosie.
Therefore, she could only give a simple explanation, “We just had lunch together and he had some
wine. Maybe he drank too much and couldn’t stand it.”
Hector slowly nodded and replied, “Well, I see.”
That was how Katherine passed through the topic.
After playing one round, the two waiters tidied the cards set and turned around to leave in order to
leave room for Hector and Katherine to talk.
Hector finally turned around to look at Katherine.
He showed a complex expression. After glancing at Katherine’s face for a while, his sight slowly rested
on her belly.
Katherine asked first, “Can you tell it? The baby is still in early stage and it cannot tell obviously from
the belly’ change.”
Hector already learned the news that Katherine got pregnant from Kyle.
Kyle didn’t know anything between Hector and Katherine and told this thing to him with a smile.
It couldn’t be denied that it was indeed a pleasant thing, expect Hector felt it was not.
Hector thought for a long time and finally remarked, “It must be hard to carry a baby.”
Katherine rubbed her belly and replied, “Not so hard. I am still in the early stage of pregnancy and my
movement hasn’t been affected a lot. Maybe it will be tired for me in later stages.”
Hector compressed his lips together and rest his sight on the table in the front. It seemed he couldn’t
find any words to reply.
Katherine also got embarrassed because of it. Hence, she suddenly changed another topic and asked,
“Have you had lunch yet? How about preparing some food for you?”
Hector hadn’t eaten anything. He had to get up early today to package and took the car to arrive here.
He didn’t have a good rest from morning till now.
He never treated himself as an outside in Kyle’s place and then nodded, replying, “I haven’t. I want to
come here to eat with you, but it seems I arrive too late.”
Katherine stood up to call the waiters to prepare food for him.
After commanding, she turned around to look at Hector, asking, “How about just having some simple
food at noon? We can gather together to have a big meal at night. How about that?”
Although Hector was hungry, he didn’t have the appetite to eat. Especially, when seeing Katherine got
pregnant, he was in a worse mood and didn’t have any requirement for eating.
Hearing Katherine asked, he simply replied, “Yes.”
Katherine then commanded the waiter to cook seafood noodles. Then she stood still and didn’t know
how to face Hector.
They used to be in a good relation, but now it seemed that the atmosphere turned awkward when they
met again.
Hector naturally noticed Katherine was uncomfortable because he also felt strange deep in his heart.
He simply left for a short time but lots of changes happened here.
If knowing his competition would make everything end up in this way, Hector wouldn’t go to attend it.
However, it was too late to regret.
Katherine stood still for a while and finally came to sit down on the sofa, leaving some space between
she and Hector.
She cleared her throat and asked, “How’s about your competition? Have you known what your next
ranking will be?”
Rosalie especially appreciated Hector and would arrange him a satisfactory ranking.
Hector nodded and replied, “They only told me to have a rest for a few days. They have to make a
decision based on comments online and the vote result.”
Katherine didn’t understand it but she could almost get what he was talking about. “I hope you can
have a good result. When the competition ends, you can sign with a reliable company. I suppose the
Haverford family can’t do anything to stop you at that time.”
Hector showed a smile and answered, “Actually, the Haverford family has contacted me when I was in
competition.”
Kevin had contacted him and he was naturally unhappy with what Hector was doing. He thought he
had embarrassed him like his mother.
Kevin’s last calls were to convince Hector to stop competing. However, later he realized it was hard for
him to change his mind and started scolding.
Hector was afraid Kevin would directly pass out considering his old age.
Afterwards, Hector’s phone got handed out. Even when he noticed he had received Kevin’s missed
calls or messages, he didn’t care about it at all.
He didn’t even tell the Haverford family about his return this time.
He didn’t want to see anyone in the Haverford family.
When mentioning about the Haverford family, Katherine suddenly found a topic.
To ease this awkward atmosphere, she told him about what happened to Alexis.
Alexis had already been arrested. Ariel used to have the intension to let her free.
However, because the case was terrible and the victim didn’t decide to let it go easily, although Ariel
spent a lot of money, Alexis was still kept in jail.
Finally, Ariel realized there was no way to change the fact that Alexis had to spend her days in jail and
decided to do nothing about it.
As for Patrick, he hadn’t started working until now.
Patrick was a rebellious person. After getting fired by Kevin, who commanded him to reflect at home,
he got extremely angry and decided to go against his father.
Until now, he simply went out to squander lavishly.
According to Kyle’s messages, the Haverford family had always been in a mess.
Kevin was not in a good health. As a result of a messy family, he had called family doctors many times
for treatment.
Kyle took please in the Haverford family’s misfortune when telling these to Katherine. He told her it was
time for the Haverford family’s revenge.
Kevin had made too many mistakes in his young days. Finally, he had to pay for what he had done
when he got old.
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