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?

he was always the one making a fuss the most whenever there was trouble in the Johnson family. Cedric never liked those

involved in what happened to

hasn’t been easy for her in

Cedric’s father

heavy blow had Rebecca suffered? How much had she endured

family after Cedric’s father had assumed

seen all of

this moment, she understood even more clearly what kind of

held in Cedric’s

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

talk about your mother. Since it’s come to this, I’ll ask one

“What?”

goes bankrupt, how do you think she

Natalle remained unmoved even

and clear–headed that… it made her

uncle won’t

mother. Why bring up

tone was sharp

gone through before, and regardless of her being skilled in maneuvering within the Johnson family, Rebecca had handled Natalie’s case

orphan with nothing, she went to great lengths to drive me out of

before we divorced, she had already found Jocelyn to replace

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came to light, she left the Lambert family

a

The man across from her,

more dark and

“Natalie!”

has always been a matter between the

mother, and the other is your sister. Whether it’s in the past, the present, or

I was alone and easy to manipulate in the past. But now, I follow whatever my uncle and my aunt

short, he stood with his mother and Christina,

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

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

“Nat!

seemed unsure of what to say for

suffered in the Johnson family. It seemed like that was the hurdle in her heart that she couldn’t

you. I thought that marriage was a matter between

to be a big

Even

nowl

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made her stance even clearer. She wouldn’t consider personal matters. So she would remain indifferent, no

an eyebrow, and a dangerous glint

take a look

by Natalie’s side. She hadn’t noticed him

made of cowhide, Natalie’s brows

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