The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming

Chapter 518 Cannot Avoid It

Natalie sat across from Hector and Charlene. She glanced around the room but didn't see Charles or Sheldon.

"Where are Grandpa Charles and Sheldon? I don't see them today."

"Mr. Holden Senior left The Herbalist's Sanctuary early this morning with Sheldon," Hector said. He had woken up slightly earlier than them and had heard about it from Matias.

Joshua had instructed Matias to care for them, so when Charles and Sheldon left, Matias was the first to know.

"Do you want me to call Matias over and ask him for details?"

Natalie looked at Marcus, who had just come back with some food. After a brief moment of thought, she shook her head. "Let's ask Marcus first."

"After all, Grandpa Charles is his biological grandfather. Let's see what he has to say."

Charles leaving so suddenly-right after she had brought Charlene over last night -was a little too well-timed.

"What's wrong?" Marcus sat beside Natalie and noticed the serious expressions on both her and Hector's faces. "Did something happen?"

"Grandpa Charles left early this morning," Natalie said with a cold expression. "I just brought Charlene here last night, and now he's gone first thing in the morning. What perfect timing that is."

Marcus' face darkened immediately. Without even touching his food, he took out his phone, got up, and walked away to make a call.

The phone rang for a long time before Charles finally picked up. "Hello, Marcus. What's wrong?" His tone was calm, with no hint of guilt or hesitation.

"Grandpa, didn't I ask you to meet Charlene today? Why did you leave so early?" Marcus forced himself to stay calm, trying to keep his tone even.

"Marcus, I don't want to meet strangers."

"Do you not want to meet her, or are you afraid to?"

"Marcus, I've been away from home for a long time. I miss it, so I decided to go back," Charles said, clearly trying to change the subject. "If there's nothing else, I'll wait for you to bring your mother home.

while now. I'm tired and need to find a place to eat. That's it.

before Marcus could say

his phone tightly as his expression turned even darker. Charles' actions made it obvious that he was running away because he was

Natalie put down her cutlery and walked over to him. "What

He said he missed

guessed as much," Natalie said, completely unsurprised. "Don't be mad. Come

will have to show up sooner or later. But Grandpa Charles running away like

a deep breath. "I might've had doubts if he hadn't run. But now that he has, I'm sure he's

Since that's the case, let's have Charlene stay with Hector for

calmed down and returned to the table

something. But every time she opened

only said goodbye to Hector and completely ignored Charlene as

glared at Hector angrily. "Hey, why did you keep

Hector didn't want to argue with her, but he didn't like the way she kept staring at Natalie and Marcus with

an adult. You should know what's appropriate and what

being nice by distracting you with food. If you were any older, I wouldn't

After a long pause, she suddenly stood up, her face

that? Can't I admire good-looking people? And the reason I only stared at

fan! Yeah, I might have been a

at him, she spun around and stormed

Charlene! Stop

quickly got up to chase after her. If anything happened to her while she was under his care, Natalie would

and Marcus arrived

eat or use anything unless it had first been checked by Connie. Otherwise, she didn't feel safe. After years of being harmed by others,

"Mom."

"Laura."

been working on. "Nat, look. I painted this while I had some

a

had been slowly improving with proper care. She wanted to do something with her time, but Connie was afraid she would