Mr. Wright and Mrs. Right by Minerva Sowle

Chapter 223 Nowhere To Hide

Suspicious thoughts raced through Gwendolyn’s mind.

Valentino was still speaking when she snapped out of her thoughts. “Cedrick’s really fallen for you. By the way, you’ve been back for a few days already, right? Have you two met yet? What’s your first impression of him?”

“I haven’t met him yet, Old Mr. Jenson,” answered Gwendolyn.

She then seized the opportunity to continue, “I’ve been sending people to meet him these days, but he’s been avoiding me. So, no. I haven’t met him yet.”

The look on Valentino’s face grew serious. “Did that really happen?”

He then asked Logan to enter and ordered, “Get Cedrick here this instant. What’s he avoiding her for?”

“Yes.”

In the meantime, Gwendolyn kept her smile while chatting and having coffee with Valentino.

Ten minutes later, Logan returned.

“Old Mr. Jenson, Mr. Jenson isn’t coming tonight. He’s on a mission.”

“What kind of mission’s so urgent that he has to bail his fiancée’s party? Ugh. This rascal!”

Valentino stomped his cane on the ground and tried to stop himself from being too harsh with his words. He assured her, “Don’t worry, Gwendolyn. I’m going to bring him here, even if it means kidnaping him.”

Instead of rejecting the suggestion, Gwendolyn smiled obediently. “We’ll follow your lead.”

Valentino cast her an affectionate gaze, but it darkened when he shifted his gaze to Logan.

“Tell that rascal to kneel in the ancestral hall for three whole days until his legs break if he doesn’t show up on time today.”

With that, Logan left.

Ten minutes later, he returned again to report gloomily, “Mr. Jenson says he’ll… carry out his punishment in the ancestral hall once he returns from his mission.”

Hearing that, Valentino lost it!

rather get punished than attend his fiancée’s party, huh?

severity of the punishment. “The punishment doesn’t scare him,

“One hundred whips? Are

cane on the ground and turned his head,

ancestral hall to receive his punishment if he’s decided to not attend. Are we really going to beat him if he goes to the ancestral hall? He’ll be dead if we really whip

countenance.

Gwendolyn’s eyes darted between the two men’s

isn’t as simple as I thought. Can a hundred whips really kill someone as muscular as Cedrick? He’s from the army,

would be too embarrassing for him to go against his promise,

in the room grew

was keeping quiet and

a party, anyway. His mission is more important. Please don’t punish him. It’s okay if

hand and sighed. “You’ve got such a

okay, Old Mr.

made Valentino

find a way to let the two of you meet. I’m going to make him

party officially

center of

her delicate makeup, and her every move made her look

night was organized

gazes and made a wonderful speech

to announce her engagement with Cedrick

show up, Marcus decided to simplify his speech and skipped the

through the party, Gwendolyn had finished toasting to the guests and found a table in the

Hence,

really want to get engaged with Cedrick, do you?” he

and swirled her

ridiculous. How could he be absent on such an important day and make you put

“Mr. Ferguson, no one, apart from you, is criticizing

a great job of controlling the crowd. Gwendolyn, I regret not letting my parents talk to him about asking your hand in marriage. But I’m

I don’t want that,” rejected Gwendolyn

you

don’t like him, nor will I marry him. Similarly, I only see you as a friend. We’ll never get married. I hope

totally at

Harris family’s party ended at eleven o’clock at night. Nico, who had been hiding near the Harris residence, rushed

his surroundings before getting into the

himself comfortable, the man, who had been waiting in the car for a long time, asked, “How

one dared to criticize Ms. Gwendolyn thanks to the threats you

Cedrick felt incredibly guilty.