When Her "Death" Couldn't Break Him (Cecilia and Nathaniel)

Chapter 331 My Daughter Is My Life

Cecilia couldn’t help but chuckle coldly. This was her own birth mother, who seemed to wish nothing more than to see her fall. “I earned my money through my own abilities. If you want it, then get it through your own skills. Don’t think you can intimidate me with your words.”

Without waiting for a response, she promptly hung up the phone. Cecilia tried calling Norman immediately afterward, but as expected, she couldn’t reach him. It seemed she would have to make a trip back to Tudela to resolve this matter personally.

Quickly, Cecilia got out of bed to check on Martha. The older woman was already awake, still trying to process the misunderstanding from the previous night.

“Has Nathaniel really changed?” Martha asked, her voice filled with uncertainty.

“I’m not sure either,” Cecilia admitted. “You should rest well and not worry about anything else.”

Martha nodded in agreement. “Right,” she said, understanding that Cecilia had her hands full with other matters.

Cecilia explained to Martha that a friend of hers had run into trouble and needed her care. “All right, you can go. Don’t worry about me. I can take care of myself,” Martha reassured her.

alone at home with Nathaniel. “I’ll arrange for a caregiver to

she refused, Martha nodded, accepting the arrangement. “All right,” she

out in the dining room, along with a note. Nathaniel had left it, written in bold,

wait for his return at Daltonia Villa. There were still some confidential documents there

the other side of town, Paula and Stella were seated in a lavish mansion. Paula was no longer the down–on–her–luck lady

and somehow managed to charm a prominent local Clusian businessman, marrying him and securing

woman that all the elites of Tudela wanted to curry favor with, and even Stella had to ingratiate herself with Paula, given her husband’s significant influence in

to repay the money?” Stella asked, trying to gauge

as she scoffed, “She’s nothing but an ungrateful leech. The

health. Would you like me to talk to her? She’s always been stubborn,

do, don’t reveal my current status to her. I have no

by Paula’s heartlessness. After all, Cecilia was her

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