The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming

Chapter 107 The Holdens Value Discipline

After Marcus spoke, Natalie stopped in her tracks. She turned around and stared at him with an icy, sharp gaze. "Marcus, did you say something nonsensical to Mr. Holden Senior?"

"What do you think I could have said?" Marcus retorted with a question instead of answering. His gaze locked onto Natalie's. "With these two obvious slap marks on my face, did you think my grandfather would not notice?"

Their gazes bore into each other, seemingly clashing in the air around them. It was as if they were fighting some kind of invisible battle, with imaginary sparks flying until one of them conceded.

The look in Natalie's eyes grew colder, as if it was encased in ice, while Marcus remained as calm as a still lake without a ripple in sight.

The surrounding temperature seemed to plummet. Passing staff members felt an inexplicable chill, and they cautiously glanced at the two before quickly withdrawing their gazes in fear.

It really felt like there was an invisible battle taking place. Though there were no real sparks, they could almost hear the sounds of swords clashing.

The staff got so frightened that they quickly fled far away.

Both of them continued their stare-off, neither willing to back down. That was until Connie ran out and pulled Natalie aside.

"Nath, why did you only just get here? Mr. Holden Senior has been waiting for you," she said.

Connie was also frightened, but she had no choice except to summon her courage to check if Natalie had returned. It was almost time for Charles' acupuncture session.

At that, Natalie withdrew her gaze. "Alright. Is everything ready?"

"Everything had been prepared."

Connie and Natalie left, leaving Marcus standing there for a moment. He then lowered his head and chuckled softly.

Just now, Natalie looked like a small leopard—angry yet extremely calm. She looked ready to seize an opportunity and rip his throat open.

had no intention of marrying him. However, it was also possible

Sheldon approached him, cautiously delivering Charles' command, "Mr. Holden, Mr. Holden Senior has ordered you to go back and

had just

already explained everything clearly.

Charles didn't believe him, saying that the sight of Marcus walking out

really hadn't done anything inappropriate, why

again, "Mr. Holden, you should hurry and kneel. The sooner you kneel,

the long-serving butler of the Holden family, having devoted his life to Charles. Since

be said that Sheldon cared for Marcus more than

Marcus regarded Sheldon as an employee, he also respected and cared for the latter. "I got

walked back into the memorial hall without expression before kneeling silently. He kneeled with an upright and straight posture, his black

bathed and changed into loose pajamas. He followed Connie's

specifically prepared for him. She then placed a black

some details. However, he agreed to keep it a secret, so

as a man, becoming Connie's "cousin", Nathaniel. This made it even less likely for anyone to find out

went to wash her

the silver needles. She meticulously went through each step before selecting the acupuncture points and inserting

tingling, numbing sensation. While listening to the soothing music and inhaling the faint herbal aroma, he felt completely

checked the time, tidied up the kit, and began

wipe away the fine beads

intense focus and precision to ensure success on the first attempt, especially considering Charles' advanced age-calling

traditional medicine practitioners wouldn't dare

carefully removed the silver needles, cleaned them, then returned

kit.

Charles had

music. It was so that after the acupuncture, Charles would get sufficient and good quality

took his pulse to ensure everything was

"Connie, get some rest."