Chapter 172 The Two-Faced Man

Bella took his arms and tried to apologize. “I'm sorry for being too sensitive. I shouldn't have doubted you.”

“I won't forgive you.” He pulled away his hands and glared at her, “I'm telling you, our cooperation is over. Now take this stupid kid out of my way.”

“Please forgive me,” said Bella, “I didn't mean to insult you.”

Nick pulled his arm away and rushed out of the gate, slamming the door shut.

“Stop acting like a boy!” Bella shouted at him.

“What a bitch!” he muttered.

“Let’s get out of here,” she said to Brandon.

“How are we going to get back? I don’t see any cabs.”

“We’ll have to wait for a bus.”

“Do you like Nick?”

“Why do you think so?”

“Can’t you just answer my question?”

Seeing the manner in which she apologized to Nick, he could sense her feelings for his brother. Was Nick the actual reason she kept away from him? Maybe all this time she was using Katherine as an excuse.

If this was indeed true, he would not hesitate to kill her. All these years, because of his father's last words, he had turned a blind eye on Nick’s misdeeds. After the assassination attempt, he hadn’t touched a hair on his brother’s head, choosing instead to kill a horse as a warning.

However, if Nick wanted to take her away he would not hesitate to teach him a lesson!

“I don’t know how to answer your question,” said Bella and glanced down at her little friend. “How can I put it? Nick often behaves like a spoiled child but deep down he is a very decent person.”

“I see,” muttered Brandon.

“Now you got to tell him what’s the beef between the two of you.”

“He thinks my dad owes him.”

“What does your dad owe him?”

“In fact, my dad kept a secret for him until his last breath.”

“Why don’t you tell him the truth now? This way he will stop behaving in an awful manner. I believe that we should always give people the chance to improve themselves in a way which also allows us to improve.”

“If you like him so much why did you get so angry?”

“Because I had to protect you. Otherwise, I would not have behaved in such a nasty manner. I may be stubborn sometimes, but I really want to keep on working for him.”

“I’m not sure I should tell him the truth. It may cost him his life.”

Apart from himself and Roy, there was nobody else who knew the truth.

If not for his loyalty, Roy would have lost his life a long time ago for being in possession of such a significant secret.

However, this was something he could not confess to Bella.

“I hope you will grow up and find a way to tell him the truth without putting his life in danger,” said Bella.

The boy kept silent and his eyes stared blankly into the empty space ahead. How was he going to tell her that there was no need to grow up? He was over two hundred years old and still had not found a solution to this problem.

It was dark when they returned to Williams’s Mansion. Roy was waiting for them in the lobby of the main hall. He seemed to have been standing there for a long time.

“I assume that you have not eaten dinner yet,” he said.

“You’re right,” said Bella. “I’m so hungry I can eat a horse and I believe the same applies for our young friend here.”

“Why doesn’t Lady let me take the young man for a shower until she refreshes herself? I will bring him to the dining hall afterwards,” said Roy.

“What an excellent idea,” said Bella.

She paused for a moment to watch Roy lead Brandon up the stairs to the showers on the third floor. Once they were there, the loyal servant locked the door behind.

“What’s the matter?” asked the boy.

“My Lord, Miss Katherine is back.”

The boy was dumbstruck by this unexpected revelation.

“How did that happen?” he asked.

“Miss Katherine didn’t want to stay at the hotel because you weren’t there. She came outside the gate and started threatening the guards. You won’t believe how she acted. She screamed at the guards and tore the clothes off her body. That’s how desperate she has become.”

“Show me the CCTV footage,” said the boy in a demanding tone.

“You’re not going to like what you see, My Lord.”

“Let me decide that,” said the boy firmly.

Charles had promised to marry Katherine on the condition that she would behave in a dignified manner. This, of course, did not include bearing herself naked in front of the guards.

They got out of the shower room and quickly hurried down the corridor to a tiny room with a computer monitor on a wooden desk.

The image of Katherine talking to the two security guards appeared on the screen. They were trying to avoid her glance, as if she was some kind of mythological creature, while at the same time they were trying to prevent her from entering the gate.

“Our Lord has ordered you to wait for him at the hotel until he comes to pick you up,” one of them explained.

“I want to return to the Williams’s Mansion right now. I don’t need anyone to come and pick me up! Do you understand that, you pair of idiots?”

“Please Miss Katherine. Why don’t you allow us to contact the Lord first?”

“If you don’t let me in, I’m going to tell him that you raped me!”

Then she began tearing her clothes and screaming aloud in a hysterical manner.

“Turn it off,” said the boy. He looked like he had tasted rotten meat.

He always knew that Katherine had a temper, but he never expected her to reach such a low level.

In his eyes, this woman was the worst kind of trash.