Chapter 241 A Man–to–man Conversation 

Catherine knelt on the carpet in front of the tea  table in the living room. From time to time, she  would peek at the three people on the sofa who  were staring at her fiercely: her father, aunt Hailey,  and uncle Brook. 

It was really stressful for Catherine, and Matthew,  who stood behind Catherine, was also terrified by  this theatrical situation. 

Although he did not do anything wrong, he always  felt that more than half of the anger of the three  people was coming for him. After a moment of  silence, Ryan said sharply, “You think you are old 

enough to play a trick on your uncle Brook? 

Apologize now!” 

Her father was referring to those drugged pistachio  that Catherine gave to Brook before. 

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That was indeed Catherine‘s fault, so she turned to 

Brook and admitted her mistake honestly, “It was  all my fault, uncle Brook. I shouldn’t give you those  pistachios. You must have suffered a lot. I‘m really  sorry, you can hit me if it could make you feel  better.” Catherine reached out her little hand to Brook. 

Before Brook said anything, Catherine withdrew  her hand and said, “No, no, no. It‘ll be a lot of pain  here. Maybe you could hit my butt. It will be less  painful.” 

Then she turned around and, like what she used to  do when she was a child, bent down at Brook. Matthew widened his eyes. What was she doing  now? Although Catherine was facing him, he was  tall enough to see everything. The tips of 

red quickly. He immediately  stepped

next moment, she found herself standing in  front of Matthew. Wow! It felt like

Brook and the other two people were all  looking at him with frigid glares. He quickly let go of

tried hard not to look at Hailey and Ryan‘s eyes and said to Brook, “Mr. Kirkland, the little girl was doing nothing but giving you some  nuts to eat. You don‘t need to make such a big fuss  about that, right? Are you angry

possibility. After 

and said, “My  stomach is not very good, so I always got some  stomach

narrowed his eyes and tried his best to not  blurt out, ‘I‘m not weak like

Catherine stood behind Matthew, feeling  ecstatic and thinking, ‘Dear God,

me. It was just that he was  stubborn and

a machismo as a boyfriend and

this man wants to  show off in front of our girl,

will spare her this time. She  made great pistachios. I will ask someone to send  you some to taste.”

expect Brook to be so nice and  thought maybe Brook was not as angry

thanks.” After saying that, Matthew felt someone pull his  arm. He turned and saw Catherine winking and  shaking

“What?” 

too  simple to survive in today‘s society. It seems that I  will be the protective one in the

in her daydreams, Hailey  suddenly snapped, “Catherine.” Catherine shivered and raised her

“Yes!” 

“Have you finished

suddenly  remembered that she hadn‘t apologized for running  away from

off  this time. He still looked at

He ignored her. 

shouted again, but he still didn‘t  answer her.

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