CEO Proposed to His Ex-wife 99 Times novel Chapter 274

“Yes,” said Marshall, “why haven’t you accepted my friend request?”

Katherine was almost amused. “Why should I? You deleted me, and now you’re trying to friend me back. What the hell are you up to?”

Marshall exhaled, sounding resigned. “I was inconsiderate when I did that. I thought we’d have nothing to do with each other from then on, but…”

“Okay,” said Katherine, interrupting him, “and we won’t indeed have anything to do with each other, so there’s no need for us to re-friend on a chatting app.”

That was when Marshall realized how good Katherine was at verbal fights. She also seemed to know exactly the sort of attitude that would upset someone. With that nonchalant tone, her words really kind of stung him. No wonder Mrs. Grant would lose it just a few sentences into a quarrel with her.

Marshall turned quiet, and so did Katherine. Marshall used to be the patient one, but not anymore.

Marshall was the first to speak. “Katherine, we’re not enemies.”

Marshall couldn’t see Katherine’s face, so she made her tone as innocent as possible. “And I’m not treating you as an enemy, either.”

Smiling faintly, she added, “I’m grateful for everything you’ve done for me, Marshall, but we really should stop contacting each other. I’m not treating you as my enemy; I simply want to treat you as a stranger.”

Marshall was lost for words. He had actually had the same thought as Katherine a long time ago, but the thing was that people could change their mind. As for when he changed his mind exactly, he couldn’t tell, either.

But Katherine didn’t want to hear about it. She knew that something was better left unsaid.

So instead she said, “If you don’t have anything else to say, I’m going to hang up now.”

And hang up she did, without giving Marshall any time to react.

Putting down her phone, Katherine let out a sigh of relief. She really felt lighter after getting all this out.

Dusk was approaching after he nap. Katherine felt hungry, but she didn’t feel like moving. So she fetched her phone again, not to order takeout, but to call Kyle.

Kyle picked up immediately, “Hello, little Kathy.”

“Hmm, I’m hungry,” said Katherine, “can you come over and bring me some food?”

“Is that all you call me for?” grumbled Kyle, “to get food? Why don’t you just get takeout?”

“Hey!” retorted Katherine, raising her voice, “do you realize that I’m kind of a celebrity now? And I need to decrease my exposure. So I’m appointing you as my agent. Now get your ass here quickly with the food!”

Kyle, who was particularly patient with Katherine, readily accepted the task. “I’m coming over right away. And you should stop yelling. You really startled me just now.”

Katherine lay back down after hanging up.

Kyle didn’t come over quickly, and when he finally showed up, he wasn’t alone – he was accompanied by Hector, in fact.

As Kyle explained, he was in the vicinity of Bennett & Co. as Hector was getting off work, so he brought Hector along.

What a lame excuse. Bennett & Co. was decidedly not along Kyle’s drive from his club to Katherine’s place, so Kyle would have had to make quite a detour if he wanted to stop by Hector’s office.

But Katherine didn’t mind either way. Setting down what Kyle brought over on the table, she said, “Alright, let’s eat! I’m starving.”

Kyle preferred eating with a group, so he had brought a lot of food.

As Kyle went into the kitchen to get tableware, he asked Hector. “Do you know what happened to your half-siblings in the end?”

That reminded Katherine of the story Kyle had told her in the afternoon, which she had forgotten about due to starvation.

Hector shook his head. “I don’t really know, and I didn’t ask. But David came into the office before I got off work, but Patrick and Alexis didn’t, so I’m assuming they were grounded at home.”