Rural Belle & Three Heirs
Chapter 25 How About You Accompany Miss Brown?

With a wave from Sophia, Grant turned to see Chloe in a wheelchair. Her pant leg was rolled up, showing some nasty bruises that made him worry. "Chloe, what happened to you?" Grant rushed over to her. Sophia had been trying to get Grant's attention because she was in pain, but to her surprise, after calling out for a while, Grant went straight to Chloe.

"She stepped on me, almost broke my bones," Sophia complained again.

Sophia's constant whining finally got Grant to look her way. He turned to her, clearly annoyed, and asked, "What's going on?"

"I was in line and bumped into Chloe, so I thought I'd say hi. But maybe she's still mad about last night, so she stepped on me hard. Look, she's so unfriendly, really too petty," Sophia said, covering her face and crying. She blamed everything on Chloe, thinking her contributions to the Martin Group would make Grant side with her. After all, with Chloe being so plain and her own striking beauty, any reasonable guy would choose her. After Sophia finished, Grant turned to Chloe and asked, "Chloe, what's going on?"

Chloe, wanting Grant to dislike her and kick her out of the Martin Family, just shrugged.

"Just like you saw, I stepped on her. And I used this foot to do it." Chloe shook her uninjured leg, trying to show Grant her strength.

But Grant misunderstood, thinking Chloe was symbolically showing him the gap between herself and Sophia. Given Chloe's limited mobility in the wheelchair, unless Sophia got close, Chloe couldn't have stepped on her foot.

So, Grant coldly told Sophia, "Sophia, why are you bothering her? I told you to get in line for an X-ray, but you still found time to chat. You two don't get along, so why push it? She's in a wheelchair-can't you cut her some slack?" Grant's words left Sophia speechless. She never thought he'd scold her, the injured one. Why was he so biased towards Chloe?

Chloe was just as confused. She had admitted to stepping on Sophia, so Grant should have been mad at her. If he was, she could cry, call her grandfather, and get back to the Northwest sooner. But Grant's unexpected reaction messed up all her plans.

"It was clearly her." Sophia looked at Grant with teary eyes, feeling wronged.

Grant was getting annoyed. He leaned closer to Chloe, carefully checking out the bruises on her leg.

"What happened? How did you get hurt? Where's Liam? What's he been doing with you? Didn't I tell him to take good care of you?" Grant had a lot to say.

Noticing Sophia's upset expression, Chloe's curiosity was piqued. If she was going to annoy someone, she might as well go all out. With Sophia already distressed, Chloe decided to push her buttons even more. She muttered, "Liam took me to watch a motorcycle race."

"What? He took you to a place like that? He needs a good talking to." Grant was a bit angry.

A delicate young lady like Chloe, raised in luxury, shouldn't be watching something as wild as a motorcycle race.

Chloe pouted. "Grantie, if you had time for me, I wouldn't have gone to the race. You said you were busy with a client-turns out it was her? Not spending time with me is one thing, but why lie about it?"

When Chloe said this, her voice was low, sounding like she was jealous. It was the first time Grant had heard Chloe speak in such a tone, and his cold heart softened at her words.

It was his fault.

Chloe had come all the way from the Northwest to the Martin Family. Whether or not she could marry one of his three brothers, as her older brother, he had a responsibility to take care of her. But now, that damn Liam had let Chloe get hurt.

"I'm sorry, it's my fault," Grant apologized to Chloe.

Sophia's eyes widened in astonishment at Grant's apology. For five years, she had loved him and worked at the Martin Group even longer. Grant, ever noble and princely, never apologized. Yet today, he apologized to Chloe? What extraordinary charm did this unremarkable girl possess to bring the mighty Grant to his knees?

"Don't worry, I won't be too busy with work to spend time with you again." Grant turned to push Chloe's wheelchair, his gentle demeanor something Sophia had never seen before.

In her eyes, it was as if a fire was burning, a fire that wanted to burn Chloe to ashes.

Receiving Sophia's glare, Chloe stuck out her tongue at her provocatively.

Sophia was even angrier.

Just then, a nurse responsible for X-rays called Chloe's number. Grant was about to push Chloe to the X-ray room.

But Sophia, enduring the pain, hobbled over.

"Mr. Martin, if you go with her to the X-ray room, what about me? My foot hurts so much I can't walk." Sophia, injured while saving a client for the company, was brought to the hospital by Grant. She thought Grant wouldn't leave her here alone.

Seeing Sophia's self-inflicted humiliation, Chloe innocently asked Grant, "Oh right, Grantie, if you push me in, what about Miss Brown? Here's an idea: I'll wheel myself in, and you stay here with her. After all, she got hurt saving a client for the Martin Group."