Chapter 166 Provoking Him to Feel Satisfied

Natalie didn’t leave Scarlet Villa immediately.

Instead, she went to another room and called Stephen. Soon, the call was answered.

“Nat!”

“Uncle, I want to come back to Simeria,” Natalie tentatively said.

Stephen was stunned.

“What’s going on?”

“There are some things on Sylvan Gems’s side that will probably take a few days to handle. I miss you and

want to come back to see you!”

“No need. We’ve got some issues at headquarters recently, and I won’t have time to spend with you if you

come back,” Stephen replied.

It had been many years, and Stephen probably had never been this busy before. There was a hint of

exasperation in his words to Natalie at this moment.

Natalie closed her eyes.

She understood the meaning behind Cedric’s words.

It was at this moment that Natalie realized… what did the ten years she spent with Cedric mean? She

hadn’t even seen through the surface of this man.

“Alright, I’ll come back when you’re less busy

“It’ll be New Year in two months. Why don’t you come back then?”

“Sounds good.”

Natalie hung up the phone.

A chill ran up her spine.

She closed her eyes and took several deep breaths, but it did nothing to calm the raging emotions within

her.

Upstairs in the study, a man tapped on his phone with his fair fingers.

Event

entu

“Yes, sir?”

“Check if she has been threatened by someone before!”

The more Cedric thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He recalled back to the

morning when Natalie had started arguing with him.

ether

the night before, even exceptionally good. However, the next morning, she

divorce?!

was as if she had become a different person. From then on, she desperately pursued

divorce.

had to suspect that Natalie must

to threaten Mrs. Johnson? Lucas asked,

the Johnson family

would dare

had also thought about this point. It was unlikely that someone from the outside would

to put it bluntly… the rumors between you and

Isabella?

had considered this question before, but he eventually

of Isabella’s words, she would at most throw a tantrum, not go to the extent of desperately seeking

seen that deep–seated hatred

it was only Isabella’s words, it wouldn’t be to this

closed his eyes and didn’t ask

fact, Lucas’s words

impossible for it to be someone from

an hour had passed before Natalie finally returned to the downstairs

casual but noble home outfit. He sat on the sofa with a laptop, clearly

in his work.

the image he often had when

Casual yet aristocratic

a dazzling presence without even

movement, Cedric turned to her and frowned, “Why haven’t

wearing the same outfit as yesterday.

toward

him.

and looked at Cedric, “What exactly have

“What do you mean?”

busy for so many years. He called just now and said there’s something going

certain that this matter was related to

her shiver

was

was Simeria! A whole other country! Had his

replied, “Don’t worry, it’s not a big problem. It’ll just keep him busy for

you know what kind of impact

fine if your uncle manages it well. But he’ll just be busier and won’t have

about you. What

“You…”

was getting

that moment, she really

to explode, she felt something pull on her arm

man’s arms.

was already angry, and this only

“Don’t move.”

her ear, as if

of firmness.

not obedient, they

They!

was referring to

a significant figure in Verde

hadn’t expected Cedric to

to them?”

dare to blindly ask Stephen, and it was

to ask Irwin.

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