Let Me Go, Mr. Hill!

Chapter 21
By the time Shaun returned home from his morning run, he was startled to discover the grand feast spread out across the table.

“You…”

“Shaunny, I felt bad that you ate the cat pudding last night so I’m making it up to you with this breakfast spread,” Catherine said thoughtfully as she served him a bowl of oat porridge.

There was a strange expression on his face. “It’s alright. You’ve already been punished last night.”

She stood there with a tight feeling in her throat. “I was truly grossed out after having the cat’s food last night,” she replied slowly a couple of seconds later.

He lowered his gaze to the ground without commenting further.

“Are you going to work? Should I drop you off at the subway station?” he asked before heading to the door once he finished his breakfast.

Catherine was startled but soon shook her head from side to side. “I was fired.” The desolation was audible in her voice.

It was obvious from his forehead that he was frowning. He was told that she was working at her family company. The relationship between her and the Jones family seemed pretty tense. “Alright, you can focus on looking after Fudge at home.”

Pfft, she was not going to spend her time cat sitting.

“I’m planning to look for another job. But don’t worry, I’ll not let it get in the way of looking after Fudge.”

“Whatever,” he muttered and left the house.

…

For the next couple of days, Catherine kept herself occupied looking for a job.

There were plenty of openings for interior design or architecture-related roles. However, in order to disguise her background as the young lady of the Jones family, she had to keep her previous professional experience a secret.

Besides, other big-scale companies were only willing to hire her as an assistant, given her young age.

with no better alternative, she chose to work with

a hundred square feet. Both their designers took care of

time doing such work. She felt rather self-conscious in

passersby would accept her leaflets but more often than not, people would just walk past

hour later, she was drenched in sweat and

was fall, the weather was unusually

without acknowledging her. Just then, a black Lamborghini pulled to a stop in

surprise. It was

the streets…” Rebecca stepped

chest. Ethan once said the

be? Summit?” Her words reeked

her lips as if she was upset. “I

car and slammed the door behind him. “Take a

handsome face. An intense pain filled her heart as if someone was carving a

I’m working honestly by handing out

it like that. He thinks you shouldn’t be doing something like this. Cathy, come back to Summit,” Rebecca said immediately, “Look, we’ve just secured a renovation deal with the developer of

hour, became more irritated. “Don’t you get tired from being a hypocrite every minute? Can you stay away from me? I don’t have the energy to

offering you a hand out

too blind to see what kind of woman she is? Would we

of us for the way things

get out of my sight right now.” Catherine lost all control and threw the stash of leaflets at the

in front of Rebecca and slightly nudged the other woman

lost her balance and fell to the ground. The leaflets were

was already leading Rebecca toward the car with

her shoulder to smile smugly

Lamborghini then disappeared into the distance. Catherine was in excruciating pain. It was as if someone had skinned her