CEO Proposed to His Ex-wife 99 Times

Frances had remained quiet. After she made a complaint about her lonely life, Old Mrs. Grant threw a glance at Frances and said, "The other day I went to the church and happened to see your mother."

Surprised, Frances didn’t expect Old Mrs. Grant to be talking to her. She thought for a moment and replied, "Well, my mom did tell me the other day that she had that plan. I wanted to go with her, but I failed to make time for the trip." Actually, she was worried about Katherine.

Old Mrs. Grant nodded. "You mother has always been worried about you. She doesn’t speak it out, but I can tell she cares a lot about you."

Frances simply grunted.

Old Mrs. Grant found a place to sit down while Katherine kept on walking about.

Old Mrs. Grant said to Frances, "Do you have any plan for the future?"

It was such a general question that Frances had no idea how to answer it, nor had she figured out Old Mrs. Grant asked so whether to make her give up on Khalid or just sound her out.

Frances pressed her lips together and replied, "I don’t know. I guess I’ll go with the flow. At this stage of my life, I just want to do whatever I like."

Old Mrs. Grant nodded. "Yeah, just do whatever you like." And then she said nothing. Frances couldn’t figure her out.

Katherine walked around the garden and came back to Old Mrs. Grant’s side. "Has Ms. Willis been talking to Mr. Grant a lot lately? She even came to my house the other day."

Old Mrs. Grant was shocked. "Cora went to your house?"

Frances looked away, saying nothing.

Katherine explained, "She said she came to have a chat with Ms. Mason. I have no idea what she wanted to say, but she ended up leaving with Mr. Grant anyway."

Old Mrs. Grant gave a meaningful smile. "Oh really."

felt uneasy voicing her opinions on

my first time to

was young,

curious. "Then why did she get divorced? Her ex-husband must have loved her, but why

after some consideration, "I heard it from a friend of mine. Seems that she caught her ex-husband cheating on her with anther woman. That man did everything he could to make her stay, but she was decisive and divorced him immediately. They had a child, but the child was old enough that the divorce hardly had any impact upon him. After

nodded after a while. "She’s been through a

" agreed Old

not want to continue this conversation, so she didn’t say what

three of them were hanging out in the back garden. She might have known that Katherine and

Lydia showed respect for her by

them and took a seat.

look at

up. She darted a glance at Katherine out of the corner of her eye and replied, "I just let it

an adult now. Actually, you don’t have to worry about him over something like

at Katherine despite herself, which made Katherine frown because she

Lucas is a reasonable kid. Maybe I nagged too much, I guess, and that annoyed him. If I hadn’t, he might have already got another girlfriend, so I

kids are adults now. They have their own way of doing things and won’t listen to us. We should let them make their own decisions,

Lydia gave a nod.

for some time, Old Mrs. Grant got a little tired, so Katherine and Frances said goodbye to Lydia and helped

about to go back to her room,

earnest, "She says her last name

with Frances with a frown. How dared that woman come to this

grumbled, "Why did she come here?" But

realized that Cora came to play up to Old Mrs. Grant instead of driving a wedge between Frances and the Grant

with embarrassment, "You’re