Chapter 241 A Man–to–man Conversation
Catherine knelt on the carpet in front of the tea
table in the living room. From time to time, she
would peek at the three people on the sofa who
were staring at her fiercely: her father, aunt Hailey,
and uncle Brook.
It was really stressful for Catherine, and Matthew,
who stood behind Catherine, was also terrified by
this theatrical situation.
Although he did not do anything wrong, he always
felt that more than half of the anger of the three
people was coming for him. After a moment of
silence, Ryan said sharply, “You think you are old
enough to play a trick on your uncle Brook?
Apologize now!”
Her father was referring to those drugged pistachio
that Catherine gave to Brook before.
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That was indeed Catherine‘s fault, so she turned to
Brook and admitted her mistake honestly, “It was
all my fault, uncle Brook. I shouldn’t give you those
pistachios. You must have suffered a lot. I‘m really
sorry, you can hit me if it could make you feel
better.” Catherine reached out her little hand to Brook.
Before Brook said anything, Catherine withdrew
her hand and said, “No, no, no. It‘ll be a lot of pain
here. Maybe you could hit my butt. It will be less
painful.”
Then she turned around and, like what she used to
do when she was a child, bent down at Brook. Matthew widened his eyes. What was she doing
now? Although Catherine was facing him, he was
tall enough to see everything. The tips of
Matthew‘s ears turned red quickly. He immediately
stepped forward and picked Catherine up.
Catherine felt her body suddenly become light and
the next moment, she found herself standing in
front of Matthew. Wow! It felt like she was flying
just now.
Matthew picked up Catherine from the ground, and
as expected, when he was standing steady again, he
found Brook and the other two people were all
looking at him with frigid glares. He quickly let go of Catherine and felt chilly from
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his spine. He tried hard not to look at Hailey and Ryan‘s eyes and said to Brook, “Mr. Kirkland, the little girl was doing nothing but giving you some
nuts to eat. You don‘t need to make such a big fuss
about that, right? Are you angry because your
stomach is not good and you have a problem
digesting it?”
Matthew felt that this was the only possibility. After
all, what bad a child could be?
So he tried to smooth things over and said, “My
stomach is not very good, so I always got some
stomach medicine in my car. I can give you two
boxes later if you need them.”
Brook narrowed his eyes and tried his best to not
blurt out, ‘I‘m not weak like you do, you weirdo!
However, Catherine stood behind Matthew, feeling
ecstatic and thinking, ‘Dear God, he protected me!
Sure enough, he liked me. It was just that he was
stubborn and was too embarrassed to say it!
Finally, I got a machismo as a boyfriend and he
loved me very much!
Brook sneered in his heart, ‘Well, this man wants to
show off in front of our girl, hum?‘
He smiled and said, “Since Mr. Holland asked for
mercy for Catherine, I will spare her this time. She
made great pistachios. I will ask someone to send
you some to taste.”
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