Chapter 31
Chapter 31
Anderson suppressed his anger. “Do you want to be with Owen Torres?” ‘It’s none of your business.” Catherine turned around, ignoring him.
Anderson said in an arctic cold tone, “If you’re with him, I can guarantee the Torres family would become the next Johnson family.”
“You…” Catherine looked at Anderson in anger. “What else can you do besides threatening me?” Anderson answered, “As long as my way works.” It indeed worked. Catherine gritted her teeth in hatred.
Recalling her pale face the other day and seeing her current vivid look, Anderson felt happier for some reason. Reaching out his hand, he wiped hard on the position where Owen had kissed.
Catherine felt that her forehead must be reddened because of the strength from his hand. She dodged. Anderson pressed her forehead with strength. “Catherine, don’t you ever fight against me. You can stay with me from now on.”
Catherine was startled. She felt so sore in her heart that she wanted to laugh. She had been into him for so many years, but he never responded to her. Now, she finally wanted to forget about him and tried to be with another man, he asked her to stay by his side.
How ironic and ridiculous!
Then what had she been holding out for all these years? Catherine said in a cold tone, “No, thank you.”
She wouldn’t want to stay with him anymore.
Anderson frowned. He didn’t continue arguing with Catherine. When she recovered, he could directly take her with him. Anyway, she couldn’t resist, could she?
Catherine had been in the hospital for more than half a month before leaving it. Since more than two weeks had passed, new hat news came out continuously, and no more reporters were waiting at her door.
She looked at the graphics tablet. She wanted to draw something but didn’t know what to draw.
Under her comics, there were countless negative comments. A lot of netizens required her to quit the caricature business since she was such a wicked painter.
The copyright development had been stopped as well. Catherine picked up her phone and sent Emilia a message: [How are you doing now?]
Emilia replied to her pretty fast: [Pretty bad. October, is what is said on the Internet true?]
Those photos could always bring Catherine back to her miserable memories. [I didn’t mean to do it. I was injected that thing by someone, but now I don’t know who that person is, and I couldn’t provide any evidence.]
This was the first time that Catherine mentioned such a thing to another person. [I believe in you. Although we haven’t got along for a long while, I don’t think you are such a kind of person.] Emilia’s reply warmed up Catherine’s heart.
A moment later, Emilia sent her a sad emoji. [However, I might have to look for a new job. The company has fired quite a few employees.]
After exchanging messages with Emilia, Catherine felt quite stressed. She still had brought trouble to so many people. Now she had lost her job. How could she be able to help those people who were implicated by her?
Catherine looked through her scripts and the comics that were drawn brushstroke by brushstroke by herself. The netizens used to discuss the plots or urge her to update in the comment area. But now, it
was full of negative comments and curses.
All of those… were caused by Anderson.
“October, if you know the person who stopped this project, could you please put on good words for us? Our boss is a quite nice one. After going through this incident, the company might be closed down.”
In the evening, when reading the message sent by Emilia, Catherine fell into the silence while huddling up in the bed.
She dialed a phone number, which she hadn’t dialed for six years. However, she even didn’t have to recall the string of numbers. As soon as her fingers were on the keyboard, she could dial it without opening her eyes.
“Hello.” Anderson’s voice rang out from the speaker. Catherine kept silent. “lll hang up if you still don’t speak.” Not so many people knew his phone number and Anderson wasn’t a patient man.
Catherine said with a hoarse voice, “It’s me.”
Anderson hadn’t expected that Catherine would call her. Now it turned out to be his turn to fall into the silence.
“Mr. Clark, who is it? Aren’t you taking a bath?”
While neither of them kept silent, a sweet voice was heard by Catherine. She was quite familiar with her – she was Sienna. She had already reminded herself that she wouldn’t love him any longer or feel heartbreaking because of him.
However, when she heard another woman’s voice through his phone at the midnight, her heart was still tightened as if it was tightly gripped by something.
Anderson stood up and walked to a quiet corner. “What’s up?”
Catherine’s voice was full of tiredness. “Please let go of the company that has bought my copyright. I can do whatever you want me to do.”
Now the Torres family, Sophia, Lincoln, her job, her future, and her career were all in his hands. How could she resist?
How could she have the guts to resist?
“Come to Ziting Villa.”
After finishing his words in a cold tone, the man hung up the phone.
Catherine was in a daze while looking out of the window for a moment. Then she hailed a taxi to Ziting Villa.
As soon as she got in the car, the driver smiled at her. “Hey, Miss. It’s you again. We do have the fate. How’s your leg now?” Catherine hadn’t expected that she would encounter the same driver who picked up from the company last time. “Yeah, it’s recovered.”
The driver didn’t notice that she was quite down. “Ziting Villa is a good community. A lot of stars and rich families are in there. The young actress on TV, whose name I’ve forgotten, was on the entertainment news with Mr. Clark not long ago…”
The driver kept nagging countless gossips all the way, most of which were about ladies from different upper-class families or actresses who had scandals with Anderson.
When Catherine got off, the driver suddenly said, “Miss, please don’t mind my nagging. I just want to remind you that kind of guys are all playboys. I saw you risked your life to ask Mr. Clark to open the door.
If your parents have seen that, how sad they would be! You can’t live on the love only. You can’t lose yourself no matter how deep you love someone.”
She had already lost herself – Catherine thought to herself inwardly.
When she got out of the car, she said to the driver sincerely, “Thank you, sir. I’ll listen to you. I’ll never lose myself again.”
As soon as she got off the car, she saw there were two luxurious cars parking in front of Anderson’s villa. One tall woman was hugging Anderson. They looked quite intimate. Catherine paused her pace.
Anderson pushed Sienna away, frowning. “What is wrong with you?”
“I twisted my ankle by accident,” Sienna answered in a grievance, looking at Anderson with tearful eyes. “May I go in and have a rest?”
Although there was a beauty in his arms, Anderson had no expression on his face. He pushed Sienna away. “Go back and have a rest. Don’t do it again.”
Sienna looked angry and embarrassed. When she turned around, she saw Catherine standing nearby. She asked in anger, “Why are you here?”
“How shameless! You didn’t come here and propose to have sex with Anderson, did you?” Sienna walked to Catherine with fury. Her eyes that looked pitiful just now were full of rage.
She still remembered that it was all because of Catherine that her plan was broken last time. This time she did it again! Facing Sienna’s provocation, Catherine remained expressionless. “None of your business.” Anderson also saw Catherine. He frowned deeply. “I don’t know Sienna White…”
“Mr. Clark, you don’t need to explain it. I don’t care,” Catherine said in a cold tone, “What do you need me to do by calling me over?”
Anderson was pissed by her attitude.