Chapter 166 Provoking Him to Feel Satisfied

Natalie didn’t leave Scarlet Villa immediately.

Instead, she went to another room and called Stephen. Soon, the call was answered.

“Nat!”

“Uncle, I want to come back to Simeria,” Natalie tentatively said.

Stephen was stunned.

“What’s going on?”

“There are some things on Sylvan Gems’s side that will probably take a few days to handle. I miss you and

want to come back to see you!”

“No need. We’ve got some issues at headquarters recently, and I won’t have time to spend with you if you

come back,” Stephen replied.

It had been many years, and Stephen probably had never been this busy before. There was a hint of

exasperation in his words to Natalie at this moment.

Natalie closed her eyes.

She understood the meaning behind Cedric’s words.

It was at this moment that Natalie realized… what did the ten years she spent with Cedric mean? She

hadn’t even seen through the surface of this man.

“Alright, I’ll come back when you’re less busy

“It’ll be New Year in two months. Why don’t you come back then?”

“Sounds good.”

Natalie hung up the phone.

A chill ran up her spine.

She closed her eyes and took several deep breaths, but it did nothing to calm the raging emotions within

her.

Upstairs in the study, a man tapped on his phone with his fair fingers.

Event

entu

“Yes, sir?”

“Check if she has been threatened by someone before!”

The more Cedric thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He recalled back to the

morning when Natalie had started arguing with him.

ether

the night before, even exceptionally good. However, the next

divorce?!

as if she had become a

divorce.

suspect that Natalie must have been agitated and

who dares to threaten

kind of position did the Johnson family hold in

would dare to

point. It was unlikely that someone

he said, “Sir, to put it bluntly… the rumors between you and Ms.

Isabella?

question before, but he

she would at most throw a tantrum, not go to the extent of desperately seeking a

seen that deep–seated hatred in her eyes more

was only Isabella’s words, it wouldn’t be

it.” Cedric closed his eyes and didn’t ask

fact, Lucas’s

to be someone from

an hour had passed before Natalie finally returned to the

outfit. He sat on the sofa

in his work.

was the image he often had when

Casual yet aristocratic

was a dazzling presence without

he heard movement, Cedric turned to her and frowned, “Why haven’t you changed your

as yesterday. Ignoring the man’s words,

toward

him.

and looked at

“What do you mean?”

and said there’s something going on at headquarters! Can you tell me

this matter was related to

made her

capable was

Simeria! A whole other country! Had his influence even reached

it’s not a big problem. It’ll

kind of impact this action will have

But he’ll just be

about you.

“You…”

was getting dizzy

really wanted to

felt something pull on her arm

man’s arms.

angry, and this only fueled her

“Don’t move.”

gentle voice sounded in her ear, as if coaxing a

of firmness.

they will only

They!

referring to Stephen

was a significant figure in

hadn’t expected Cedric to involve

do to them?” Natalie was very

She didn’t dare to blindly ask Stephen, and it was even

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