CEO Proposed to His Ex-wife 99 Times novel Chapter 277

The lame excuse and lame acting made Katherine almost break into laughter.

“Really? Guess I’ll hang up then.”

“Wait,” said Marshall hastily.

“What?”

Biting his lips, Marshall replied after a while. “What were you doing just now?”

“Taking a shower. Why?” asked Katherine, not knowing what Marshall wanted.

Marshall replied after some pause. “Nothing. Bye.”

And then he hung up.

Katherine clutched her phone and blinked. What the hell was that? What was happening? What did this guy want?

Katherine put down the phone and lay down after turning off the light. But she couldn’t sleep, not when she’d had plenty of sleep during the day.

She tossed and turned in bed only to get more and more clearheaded. Finally, she decided to grab her phone and browse the Internet.

That was when she came upon the statement from the Hendersons, which was decidedly devoid of substance. Then she read the comment section, which consisted of mostly attacks on Clara. Among them were a couple of posts saying that Clara and Marshall were meant for each other, but those comments were refuted mercilessly.

Katherine found the Henderson statement unwise. If they didn’t want to identify Clara and Marshall to be just friends, they could have remained completely silent. Instead, they came up with this vaguely worded statement which was prone to misinterpretation.

The Hendersons had issued this statement alone, claiming that they’d give no further explanation on this matter. But as a matter of fact, their existing explanation was already redundant.

Katherine kept browsing, but the rest of the news reports were basically the same.

Earlier that day, Rosalie Haverford had texted Kyle instructions on what Katherine should say if she wanted to say something. Instead of a template, Rosalie had told her the aspects she should focus on in order to defend Marshall.

Musing on it for a while, Katherine started drafting her statement, which was mostly an explanation of what had happened between her and Marshall.

She referenced the statement of the Grants before writing down her own thoughts. Mentioning Clara zero times, she simply spoke about the reasons for her failed marriage to Marshall. She spoke about how they were from entirely different worlds, and how she’d been happy at times during the past year of marriage, but she’d been in agony more. She also mentioned how it was impossible for her to fit into the Grants’ way of life, that she wanted more freedom, and that divorce was a decision she made after a lot of discussions with Marshall, as they were sure that it would benefit them both.

As she was typing out the words, Katherine was reminded of the day she signed her divorce papers. She felt a slight pang of sadness in her chest.

Checking and rechecking the statement, she found no misspellings or grammatical errors, so she sent it out.

It being her first time to release a statement, she was a bit nervous, unsure if anyone would even read this thing.

Taking a deep breath, Katherine sat on the bed and looked out of the window, faintly dazed.

Marshall was woken up by a call from Peter Richardson. It was still early, and Marshall’s mind was foggy from falling asleep very late the night before, so he picked up the phone rather peevishly. “What?” he snapped.

Peter was hasty in his response. “Check your phone. Kathy released a statement last night.”

Laughing a little, Marshall asked, “It wasn’t a personal attack on me, I hope?”

“No, of course not!” replied Peter, “she made explanations in your favor. It’s just that I don’t know whether the tide will turn for you today.”

“Alright,” said Marshall as he sat up against the headboard, “I’ll see for myself.”

He hung up the phone to browse the Internet. The statement had been recommended to him before he even searched for it.

At the end of the day, Katherine was kind. Like Marshall had said before, she was a “paper tiger” – in this case, a gentle soul disguised in a menacing exterior.