Chapter 174 Charles is Suffering

Katherine next turned to the boy and gazed at him with a mixture of curiosity and contempt.

“Who is our little guest here?” she asked.

“He’s a relative of mine,” answered Bella. “Any problems?”

The boy shot her a side-glance. Bella was speaking to Katherine in the same hostile tone she often used with him. A wave of bitterness engulfed his heart in an instant. By the tone of her voice, he could tell that Bella always regarded him and Katherine as enemies.

Katherine’s loud laughed echoed throughout the large hall.

“Of course there is a problem,” she said.

She raised her head and looked at Charles with scornful eyes. “This is not a place where you bring poor relatives for a free meal. I suggest you send this boy back to where he came from.”

“Why aren’t my relatives allowed to visit me here?” asked Bella.

“Because I don’t like your relatives. Charles also does not happen to like freeloaders.”

“If Charles has a problem, let him tell me himself. Until that happens I’m free to invite here anybody I like.”

“Who do you think you are? The Lady of the house? You’re nothing but a surrogate mother! You poor wench! Do you think that Charles would ever regard you as a real wife? You don’t deserve him. I’m the most suitable woman in the world for him and if you dare try to take him away from me, I will…”

Bella didn’t wait for Katherine to finish her words. She stood up and took the boy by the hand.

“Let’s get out of here,” she said.

“And where do you think you’re going?”

“To finish dinner in my room.”

“Along with your little friend? Wow! You’re one of a kind! Don’t tell me he is also your bedroom companion? Wait and see what happens when I tell Charles all about it. Let’s see if he keeps on loving you after I tell him what kind of woman you are.”

“You had better take a look good at yourself to see the kind of person that you are,” responded Bella. “What do you think Charles will say when he finds out about the way you behaved tonight?”

Katherine rolled her eyes and gave Bella a surprised look.

“I’m entitled to behave in this manner because I’m Spencer Duke’s daughter. What I don’t like is being criticized by low-life sluts such as you. I know that you grew up in a slum! Why do you think Charles chose you as a surrogate? Because you could be purchased for cheap!

Katherine thumped her chest and her face was red with fury. This convinced everyone that she indeed was a crazy woman. “Let’s make a deal,” she continued. “Why don’t you get out of here and I promise to pay you even more money than what he offered you. But you got to leave this mansion before he returns and never come back.”

The main reason Katherine had returned to the Mansion was to take advantage of the Lord’s absence and get rid of Bella. He would be unable to blame Katherine if he returned and Bella had already gone. All that time, all she needed to do was coax him. Together they would search for a new surrogate mother. Someone not so pretty and more obedient. A perfect choice for the mother of Charles’s child.

Bella did not want to take this any longer. The fact that Katherine and Charles had money didn’t mean that she had to put up with all their bullshit. This prompted her to pick up a bowl of soup from the table and splash it across Katherine’s face.

A loud shriek escaped from Katherine’s mouth followed afterwards by a low sobbing sound. It must have been very shameful for Katherine to be humiliated in front of the servants, thought the boy while staring at her.

Katherine reached out to the table for a napkin with which she wiped her face. She somehow seemed saner now, yet more determined.

“Do you understand what will happen to you once Charles finds out about this?” she asked Bella in a very serious tone.

Bella took her mobile phone out and tossed it on the table.

“Why don’t you call him now and tell him? Do you think I really want to stay in this place? Have you ever considered that being here with the likes of you two makes me sick?”

Bella’s last words had made Charles squirm inside the tiny body he occupied. Had these words truly come out of Bella’s mouth?

Did she just say that he and Katherine made her feel sick?

He looked up at her and saw a bright smile all over her face.

How could her smile be so beautiful? 

Even more strange was the fact that he felt happy with her while he ought to feel angry.

Katherine tried to throw the napkin at Bella’s face but she missed. She then started looking around to see what other objects she could throw to Bella.

“Roy is my witness,” murmured Katherine. “He will tell the Lord everything that happened here.”

“Let’s get out of this toxic mansion, Brandon,” said Bella.

The boy gave a silent nod and followed her out of the room. At this point, he wasn’t sure whether he should hate Bella or not.

The current circumstances were indeed very hard for the Lord.