Divorce Anxiety
Chapter 142

Samuel and Christopher had an intense fight.In the meantime, Kathleen's expression went darkerand darker.D*mn! These men are really stupid!From the corner of her eye, she caught sight of thewater gun used to water the flowers beside the flower bed. She immediately walked over to pick itup and pointed it at the two men.The men immediately stopped their fight and soon becameentirely drenched.It was then that Kathleen threw the water gun onto the floor."Maria, pleaseprepare bath towels for them,” she instructed.Maria quickly ran into the house to preparethem.Meanwhile, Kathleen shot the men an icy gaze imposingly. “Don’t you ever do such things infront of me again. What I resent the most are those who fight without making things clear. Are youtwo beasts?"The two grown men were being lectured like they were dogs, standing in place withtheir hands hanging naturally at their bodies’ sides while lowering their heads.Christopher thenlooked at Samuel. The white shirt the latter was wearing clung to his lean figure, showing his absclearly.The scar from his heart that stretched all the way to his abdomen was now even morenoticeable.Shortly after, Maria returned with the bath towels, handing one to each of them."Maria,please take Christopher inside to take a shower,” Kathleen instructed expressionlessly."Okay.” Mariathen led Christopher inside.Looking at Samuel, Kathleen said, “Hurry back home. You just gotdischarged from the hospital.”"Why can he take a shower at your place while I can't? Am I notworthy?” Samuel's tone sounded pitiful.“Your house is only next door.” Kathleen wasspeechless.What's the point of fighting against this?“You said I'm like a relative to you, but I can feelthat you treat a stranger way better than me.” Samuel's face turned pale. “I'm living alone. If Ifainted, who's going to save me?"Kathleen was at a loss for words upon hearing that.In the end,Samuel managed to step into the Johnson residence.Kathleen went to Charles’ room and found twosets of clothes for the two men.Since Christopher went to take a shower first, he used the bathroomon the first floor, and Samuel used the one on the second floor.After asking Maria to send theclothes to Christopher, Kathleen went to pass Samuel the other garments.”Samuel, I'll leave theclothes at the door.” said Kathleen from behind the door.Click!The bathroom door was pushedopen.Kathleen was startled.Oh, my! Will, will he... Although we used to be husband and wife, wehave already divorced. How inappropriate for him to come out naked like that.Needless to say, shethought too much.”Give it to me,” Samuel said in a hoarse voice while stretching out his slender, fairarm.After putting the clothes in his hand, Kathleen turned around to leave.”Wait.” Samuel's voicetrailed off.“What else do you need?” Kathleen asked, puzzled.Samuel then opened the bathroomdoor.Kathleen was so shocked that she covered her eyes.Her reaction amused Samuel. “I'm not apervert. Look. I have my bathrobe on.”Kathleen blinked her eyes upon hearing that."Can you lendme your hairdryer?” The man’s voice was clear and deep."Follow me.” Kathleen led him to herroom.She took out the hairdryer from the drawer and handed it to him.When Samuel received it, hisslender, cold hand touched the back of her hand.Kathleen instantly felt a tingling sensation over herbody.While blowing his hair, Samuel said, “I did call Astrid’s grandfather again.”Kathleen wasstartled.”And I did ask him to send someone over.” Samuel's voice was icy. “But that person was notAstrid."Kathleen blinked her eyes, asking, “What do you mean?”Samuel turned off the hair dryer, hishair was half dry by then. He explained, “Morris Group is bidding for the construction project ofHorington. In fact, this project has been postponed for two years and has only been resumed now.Morris Group is determined to secure this project. Thus, I asked Astrid's grandfather to help me replaceOlivia, the woman who had stopped this project two years ago. By the way, I admit that I wasjealous when I learned you and Christopher were in a relationship."The mention of Olivia surprisedKathleen.”I've heard of her. She's a geologist and is always out of the country,” Kathleen quietlyresponded. “She proposed to end the Horington project because the land structure where thebuilding resided was unstable.”"You actually know about that?” Samuel was a littlesurprised.Kathleen rolled her eyes. “I was still your wife at that time. There was once I overheardyour video conference with someone and learned all that. It's not confidential and doesn't matter if Ilistened in, right?"“Of course.” Samuel smiled faintly. “Even if it's confidential, so what? You canlisten to it if you want."Kathleen pursed her lips. “So Astrid was sent here by Old Mr. Holloway on hisown initiative?"Samuel stared at her with his arms crossed. “I won't believe it if you haven't run abackground check on Astrid.”“So what if I did?” Kathleen was displeased. “Couldn't I investigateher?"Samuel chuckled. “Don’t you try to shove that blame on me. Let's get down to business. Astridalready signed with an entertainment company six months ago. Her so-called war correspondentjob was fake.”Kathleen frowned. “Isn't she afraid of being exposed?"“Generally speaking, there'revery few war correspondents out there. Thus, it's not easy to expose her, not to mention she hadindeed spent two months in several war-torn countries. But she didn't really go to the camps. It wasothers who took the photos and sent them to her. She only published the photos after that,”Samuel explained.Of course, Kathleen was unaware of that.”I've already explained it to you.” Samuelcast her a meaningful look. “If I said I wouldn't lie to you, I won't."Kathleen flushed at his words. “Ialso didn't say that what you said was false, but you... shouldn't have made a move.""He was theone who hit me first.” Samuel pursed his sharp thin lips. “You saw it yourself.”“Of course I did. I'mnot blind,” Kathleen quietly responded. “But no matter what, you're now planning to deal with theMorris family.” won't deny it,” Samuel admitted.”You don't even feel embarrassed?” Kathleenknitted her eyebrows. “Even if you don't pay Christopher any respect, you should still think aboutAunt Emily who married into the Morris family.”"How do you know that Christopher hasn't secretlydealt with me, then?” Samuel raised his brows.”He won't,” Kathleen said with certainty."How can yoube sure of that? Just because he’s good to you, you think he’s good when doing everything?”Samuel questioned coldly.Kathleen was rendered speechless.She felt like she was going to startquarreling with Samuel at any minute.”You'd better get changed now and go downstairs.” Kathleendidn't want to continue the subject any longer.When she reached the door, Samuel asked casually,"Am I that evil in your heart?"Kathleen bit her lip for a moment and walked off.Is he evil? Not really.It's just... Argh! I can't tell what kind of feeling that is. It's something like... Even if he’s not a bad guy,he will not be a good guy either.Meanwhile, Samuel's dark eyes were cold and deep-set.It seemsthat it's hard to patch things up once the person has lost trust in you. But this time, I really didn't lieto her. I really didn't. When Kathleen arrived downstairs, Christopher was already sitting in the livingroom, sipping coffee.Charles happened to have returned home and asked curiously, “Whathappened to the yard? It's a complete mess.” Two dogs came and had a fight,” Kathleen explainedindifferently.Dogs?Charles frowned at her words. He was a little surprised when he saw Christopher."You came!"Christopher nodded in response.Charles frowned. What's happening here?While Charleswas pondering the situation, Samuel came down from the second floor.Charles was even moreshocked by then. “What is this guy doing here?”