Losing to My Substitute (Katerina and Joshu) novel Chapter 9

Chapter 9

When the call remained unanswered, Ethan gave a barely noticeable chuckle, “What’s wrong, didn’t coordinate in advance?”

Tony also let out a breath of relief, his expression relaxing slightly, “I thought you might pull ‘something off, but is this all you’ve got?”

“Alright, we’ll each give you three million. Consider it payment for this wedding dress.”

Andrew said casually, then turned to wipe Bethany’s tears.

“Don’t cry, Beth. I’ll take you shopping, buy you whatever you want, even a wedding dress more

beautiful than this one.”

After comforting her, he gently took Bethany’s hand and led her to the car, with the other two following closely behind.

Only after they left did Katerina’s phone suddenly vibrate.

Joshua had sent a text message.

“In a meeting, will call you later. Is it urgent?”

She quickly typed back an apology: “No need, no need, you’re busy. I just wanted to tell you I’m sorry, the wedding dress was destroyed by someone. I failed to protect it.”

He replied quickly: “No matter. I’ll have a new one made and sent over.”

Just then, Mr. and Mrs. Green returned home. Seeing the shredded wedding dress, their faces instantly darkened.

After learning what had happened, their expressions turned black as coal

Mrs. Green fumed, “I originally took pity on Bethany’s mother being a widow with a child, thinking they had it hard, so I let them stay and work in our home. Now I see both mother and daughter are of questionable character!”

“Housekeeper! Fire them! Let this be justice for Kate!”

As she spoke, she held Katerina’s hand and said gently, “Kate, don’t worry. As long as we’re here, we won’t let anyone bully you.”

Katerina felt touched and quietly thanked them before leaving with the wedding dress

No matter what, this was the dress Joshua had personally designed for her. She had to try everything possible to fix it.

The housekeeper worked efficiently. When Katerina returned, she found that Bethany and her mother had already been ordered to leave the Green family home.

She let out a sigh of relief, thinking

she could finally have some peace before her wedding, but when

she walked into her room, she found it had been ransacked.

Without thinking, she knew this must have been Bethany’s doing.

This was the only way she could vent her anger.

Just as she was about to resign herself to cleaning up, suddenly footsteps sounded outside her door,