All Her Secrets

Chapter 815 Going Home

Catherine had just stepped out from the restroom when a sudden dark figure pounced on her. With lightning speed and force, the figure yanked her into an adjacent room. With a click, the sound of the lock echoed, plunging the entire restroom into darkness as if the power had been cut off.

“Not scared?” A deep, husky voice pierced the darkness, which was a bit familiar to Catherine.

Catherine scoffed with a smirk playing on her lips. “Impressive moves! Seems like you’ve done this before.” Even though Branden altered his voice intentionally, Catherine recognized him.

Branden smiled helplessly. “Don’t accuse me wrongly. You’re the only one I’ve done this to.” He wasn’t one to waste time on such affairs with others.

Catherine stayed silent. Despite the changed voice, as Branden drew closer, she had already identified him. No one could easily abduct her, not even Branden. The restroom was tight, and they were pressed together. They even could hear each other’s heartbeats.

“With whom did you come?” Branden asked. Just now, he didn’t believe Paxton’s story of meeting Catherine here. She’d been either in the dorm or the lab lately. He didn’t believe she could be here. After confirming Paxton’s eyes weren’t playing tricks, Branden hurriedly made his way over. Then Branden realized that it truly was Catherine.

“Amelia and Isabella dragged me to some academic conference,” Catherine explained.

Branden chuckled softly, and his voice was attractive. “An academic gathering in a place like this?”

Catherine didn’t respond, leaning in slightly to smell a faint trace of tobacco on his chest. “Is this yours?”

“No!” Branden protested immediately. Despite feeling down lately, he had sworn off smoking in front of Catherine. And he would stick to it. ” There was a business dinner tonight. Everyone else smoked except me. But somehow, their smoke latched onto me!

Catherine didn’t mind him smoking. It was just that Branden noticed she couldn’t stand the smell of smoke and mentioned wanting to quit. Not smoking was commendable, and Catherine approved.

After they understood each other’s reasons for being there, Catherine moved to leave and softly instructed, ” Have your men turn on the lights. I’m heading back.”

This was a high-end club, so it was unlikely for a sudden power outage to occur without anyone addressing it. It was pretty obvious who might be behind this.

He encircled her waist with one arm and prevented her from leaving. “You’ve been absent from the apartment lately. Are you really planning to ignore

“Busy!” Catherine retorted coldly.

then replied, ” Busy? Busy enough to attend whatever

explain later,”

He showed no intention of releasing his grip and buried his head in her

Catherine felt a bit helpless. “Your subordinates aware of your

disdain. He didn’t care about these matters at all. Catherine was the most important person to him. With Catherine’s resistance growing apparent, Branden grew irate. He lifted her by the waist suddenly

resist, but she eventually succumbed to his

emerged from the restroom, trailed

bitterly. It was his

Catherine reached the room’s entrance, she bumped into Amelia, who was looking for her. “Super Catherine, where have you been for so

corridor behind her and casually replied, “Just got some

“The wind is quite strong. It messed up

in embarrassment. She was relieved that Amelia didn’t seem to notice. “Come on. Let’s go in. Everyone’s still waiting! “Amelia insisted

When Amelia pulled her along

longer, Catherine decided it was time to leave. “Professor Hartley is waiting

depart

me. I’ll use the restroom quickly. Then we’ll leave together.” As Isabella got

has been good, right?” Amelia

all the seniors are so nice!”

course. I don’t just pull you guys into any fraternity events. I’m quite selective. I noticed Alfie seems to have a thing for you. What do you think?” Amelia asked with a teasing