Chapter 186 For Oneself

When the two returned to Scarlet Villa, everything had indeed been prepared. Natalie sat quietly at the dining table, eating her food. She had been silent ever since Cedric defended Christina again in the car.

At this moment, her face appeared calm, but it gave Cedric the feeling of it being the calm before the

storm.

“Nat.”

In the end, he couldn’t help but break the silence.

“What?”

“I know things at the Johnson Manor weren’t too good for you before, but it’s all in the past now, hmm?”

“Are you advising me to go back? Or are you letting it go because of my uncle?” Natalie sneered.

In the past?!

That was not how she understood it. Although Cedric showed her that he could stand proudly at the pinnacle even without her uncle’s support, Rebecca’s actions gave her a different feeling at this crucial

moment.

She felt uncomfortable inside!

“Your mother must be regretting it now, right? She did set aside her pride and approached me, you know?

Seems like she doesn’t have much confidence in you.”

Natalie’s words became more and more brazen

Cedric’s face turned cold.

Apparently, he wasn’t too pleased with Natalie talking about his mother this way, regardless of what kind

of person Rebecca was.

But even though Rebecca was a complicated character, she had suffered a lot, especially in matters. related to Cedric inheriting the position in the Johnson family.

Anyone who understood Rebecca’s situation would know why she insisted on finding Cedric a woman

from an equal background.

As a mother, she wanted to protect her child, Even if she couldn’t protect him, she would find someone

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Although Cedric didn’t need such protection, it was a common trait of mothers.

“In these years you lived in the Johnson family, what do you think of Uncle Benjamin?”

Benjamin?

was always the one making a fuss the most whenever there was trouble in the Johnson family. Cedric never liked those uncles much. Putting aside how much influence they had in the

happened to my father. Although things

hasn’t been easy for her in the

after Cedric’s father passed

much had she

after Cedric’s father had

seen all of

moment, she understood even more clearly

held in

the spoon in her hand, she looked at Cedric with a serious expression and said,

it’s come to this, I’ll ask one more

“What?”

bankrupt, how do you think

Natalle remained unmoved even though Rebecca

was so rational and clear–headed that… it made her

uncle won’t allow

I’m asking about your mother.

was sharp

what Rebecca had gone through before, and regardless of her being skilled

as an orphan with nothing, she went to great

she had already found Jocelyn

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came to light, she left

that something a decent person

emphasized the last sentence heavily. The man across

even more dark and

“Natalie!”

a matter between the

in the past, the present, or the future, you’ve always avoided facing the issues with these two, and then there’s

to manipulate in the past. But now, I follow whatever my uncle and

he stood with his mother and Christina, while she

time, he had taken action against her uncle, which was the last line for

about marriage. Because he thought too simply, she had suffered quite a

“Nat!

was hoarse, and he seemed unsure

that he truly understood what grievances Natalie had suffered in the Johnson family. It seemed like that was the hurdle in her

the same as you. I thought that marriage was a matter between the two of us. I thought That living in Scarlet Villa

to

wanted to make things difficult for another person, they would find a million reasons to 40. Even if the person lived in a different city, they would find

nowl

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wouldn’t consider personal matters. So she would

eyebrow, and a dangerous glint flashed in his

take a look at these things

this, the man placed a bag by Natalie’s side. She hadn’t noticed him bringing it

made of cowhide, Natalie’s brows

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