Chapter 14 Online Harassment and Threats

Upstairs, Natalie listened to Cedric’s yelling at Rebecca. She couldn’t help but feel sad about how ironic

the situation was!

When they had looked down on her, even refusing to allow her to have Cedric’s child, she hadn’t uttered a

word of complaint in Cedric’s presence.

Looking back now, she realized how foolishly she had thought that she simply needed to do better, and

eventually, the Johnson family would accept her.

Since the deaths of her parents and grandmother, she had never experienced the warmth of a family.

That’s why she had been single–mindedly working to maintain Cedric’s family.

Her entire focus had been on gaining their acceptance. But in the end, she had been wrong.

She closed her eyes, but the sorrow on her face was impossible to conceal.

When Cedric came upstairs, he saw Natalie lying on the chaise longue in the room. He approached her and crouched down in front of her, taking her hand.

“Nat.”

Natalie subconsciously tried to withdraw her hand.

But the man tightened his grip. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

Natalie let out a bitter laugh.

telling him? This was the man who had called her to question her just because she

ties with his family because they did that

wouldn’t do

get more difficult if she had done anything of the

this caused a rift between her and Cedric, she would only

was about to say something else, his phone suddenly rang. Holding Natalie’s hand with. one hand, he retrieved his phone with the other. He checked the caller

“What is it?”

the other end spoke, Natalie felt the warmth of Cedric’s

rose to his feet.

eyes, once gentle and expressive, were now devoid of any warmth as

nothing but

Cedric said before ending

turned her

that Isabella

been found. I’m going to see

she

look at Cedric, her eyes filled with calm, but her words were piercing. It was as if she was subjecting Cedric to

down and caressed her face, then cupped her cheeks and k*ssed her on the

Natalie, this comfort felt insincere and

I’ll tell

silent

good.” The man k*ssed her again before getting

as though he

closed her eyes, concealing the turmoil

Rebecca had left.

just thrown a bombshell into her and Cedric’s relationship.

destroyed, it

Cedric. She hadn’t wanted him to be

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