Chapter 13


    Anderson frowned and replied, “I got it, so don’t you worry too much for now, Grandma. I will head out to


    pick her up now.”


    After Catherine had finished her lunch, she curled up in front of the window while staring nkly into


    space. Her mind was.


    contemting the next step to be taken for Anderson to return her children to her.


    Owen walked up to her and patted her on the back at that moment which had broken off her train of


    thought. She turned her head back and gazed at him with a puzzled face.


    “I’m going back hometer; do you want toe along with me? My mother misses you.” Catherine


    shook her head, “No, thanks.”


    She did not want to meet anyone in her previous circle as she had had enough of their pitiful or haughty


    disdain looks on their faces whenever they saw her.


    “Just help me to pass on my sincere regards to her.” She got up to see him off while uttering, “As a


    matter of fact, you wouldn’t have stayed in City A for so long if not for me, and I reckon your mom is still


    upset and ming me for that.”


    Owen pinched her cheek in a loving manner as he said, “Don’t think too much, alright?”


    Catherine saw him off at the gate of the vi, and before he had departed, he gave her a hug while


    whispering in her ears, “Try not to overthink, I will bring the kids back. There’s a painted board in the


    study room, so you can sketch some cartoons if you feel bored.”


    “Alright.” Catherine put on a smile and nodded in reply.


    Their intimate interaction had been taken in by a man whom was seated in a car further away.


    When Catherine was about to head back inside the vi after Owen had left, her arm was suddenly


    grabbed by someone when she was turning her body which had caused her to jerk forward, “Why are


    you…” back again?


    Her words were stuck in her throat when she had discerned the identity of the person whom was holding


    on to her arm, and her smile froze on her face while her countenance fell in a swift, “What are you doing


    here?”


    “Why? Am I interrupting your intimate moment with him?” Anderson’s mouth curled up in a frigid manner,


    but his tone embodied a hint of jealousy that he himself was not even aware of.


    Catherineughed sarcastically at him as she ridiculed him, “We’re divorced for many years now, so I


    don’t think you have the right to butt in my private life. Or is it that Mr. rk here is actually jealous?”


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    Anderson was stunned on the spot for a second, and soon after a frosty look manifested in his eyes as


    he eyed her up and down and scoffed afterwards, “You think too highly of yourself. You’re not my cup of


    tea back then, so it’s obvious that I would not even give you any thought now that you’re older.”


    “Who are you to call me whom is younger than you an old woman when you’re the one who’s thirty this


    year?” Catherine sneered at him.


    Anderson was rendered speechless by her remark, so in the end, he just dragged her by her arm while


    walking towards his car. “What do you want?” Catherine shrieked in fear as she tried to resist and back


    away from him.


    Anderson furrowed his brows after seeing her struggling to free herself, and he decidedly carried her and


    threw her into the car for fear of security guards showing up anytime soon. When he got into the car, he


    promptly ordered the driver to head to the hospital, “Go to where Antonio is.”


    “Let go of me!” Catherine yelled anxiously, and just when she was about to open the door, Anderson held


    her hand down then and there and pressed her beneath his body as he questioned her with ring eyes,


    “Do you want to die, Catherine?”


    Catherine stayed silent and struggled with all her might to try to break free from his restraint, but he


    proceeded to sp her hands tightly while staring at her whom was still struggling underneath him with


    his dark eyes and yelled, “You are not qualified to be their mother!”


    She was not qualified to be their mother?


    Catherine was stupefied for a moment upon hearing his usation that she was not fit to be Lincoln and


    Sophia’s mother. She gritted her lips and uttered after a long while, “Whom do you think you are to say


    that I am not worthy?”


    Everyone in this world could point their fingers at her and criticized her for being unfit to be the kids’


    mother, except for him. He was the only one whom did not have the right to judge her.


    “How have you been looking after Sophia? Why didn’t you inform me that she has congenital heart


    disease?” Anderson looked down on Catherine whom was still underneath him as he continued, “You


    must have been bewitched by Owen and only busy with your lovey-dovey rtionship. Do you even


    keep the kids close at heart?”


    “What did you say just now?” Catherine had filtered out thetter part of his sentence as she asked


    anxiously, “Did her condition turn worse?”


    The nightmare that she had earlier suddenly struck her upon hearing his words as it turned out that she


    would not have that bad dream for no reason at all. Something bad must have happened to Sophia, and


    that thought had instantly torn Catherine’s heart out…


    “Anderson! Say something!” Catherine raised her voice and repeated, “Is Sophia’s condition acting up


    again?”


    Madness could be seen manifested in her eyes when it was only a while ago that she was still talking


    back to him, and she seemed like she was overwhelmed with sorrow and dread as well as if her children


    were a taboo to her.


    Anderson finally uttered, “No. It’s just that she refuses to take her meal, so she has passed out due to


    hunger. She has just woken up a while ago, and all she does is crying out for you.”


    Sophia had fainted from hunger? Catherine thought to herself as utter disbelief had written all over her


    face.


    The fact that a five-year-old would pass out from hunger in the wealthy rk family was ludicrous and


    absurd to take in.


    Tears started to roll heavily down Catherine’s cheeks when she realized that it was indeed the truth, and


    she said with a catch in her voice while pushing and shoving him, “Why didn’t you call me when she had


    not been eating? How could you just stand by and watch her passing out from hunger unfeelingly? Won’t


    your heart ache when you see her in that state?”


    “How could you use me just now? If I’m not fit to be her mother, do you think you are eligible to be her


    father instead?”


    “I don’t have time to look after her 24/7,” Anderson uttered briskly. He had never taken Sophia’s matter to


    heart ever since she had been admitted to the hospital.


    Catherine wiped away her tears and said with a wistful smile when his heartless words had hit her, “The


    reason that you don’t like her is because she is my child, am I right?”


    Since he did not favour her children at all, he would not care about them, and he would not feel a single


    hint of remorse even if Sophia had fainted due to hunger.


    Anderson pursed his lips while his eyes darkened when he was confronted with her question, and even


    though he did not explicitly admit to it, he did not deny it as well.


    “Is that so?” Catherine had turned prickly and uptight when it hade to her children. “Yes.”


    Although she had already known the result deep down in her heart, her heart was still torn to shreds the


    moment she had heard it from him in person. Despite tears welling up in her eyes and her lips quivering


    uncontrobly, Catherine had bitten down on her lips and held back her tears, refusing to break down in


    front of him in an unyielding and pitiful manner.


    Anderson felt an inexplicable excitement after looking at her resoluteness and piteous state. “Since you


    don’t like them, why do you still want to take them away from me? You can just continue living your high


    and mighty


    life while my children and I go back to our ordinary lives. Isn’t it better for us to not meddle with each


    other’s business and just go our own way?”


    To not to interfere with each other’s lives…


    There was nothing wrong with that, but the thought of her starting a family which included his offspring


    with another man was.


    unbearable to Anderson.


    “You wish. I will not let the rk’s descendants to live a wretched life outside the family.”


    “You disgust me, Anderson.” A wave of nausea had suddenly engulfed her, and her intense repugnance


    for him had made her retched while she held her throat.


    Anderson’s face ckened in an instant, and he started to exude an air of frostiness as he threatened


    her, “Do you have a death wish, Catherine?”


    “I would rather die if I have to be in the same space with you! Try to kill me if you can!” Catherine yelled


    back at him with a bitter look on her face.


    Whenever she had set her eyes on Anderson’s face and heard his voice now, she would start to feel


    queasy, and the feeling of throwing up woulde to her naturally.


    “Why had I ended up falling in love with such a heartless man back then…”


    Her gaze towards him was filled with abomination, and even the way she spoke was what he had


    detested the most. How could she, a murderer, criticize him when she had given birth to his offspring


    without his consent? It was already generous of him to not get even with her for bearing his children


    secretly.


    What right did she have to denounce him now?


    Anderson gave out a mirthless smile as his mouth curled upward after he was provoked by her words,


    then he uttered in a chilly voice that hade from the depths of hell, “Do you really wish to die?”


    He lifted her chin while his fingers traced across and lingered on her smooth skin, and he proceeded to


    move his fingers downwards…


    “I will not let you get your way.” Catherine’s body trembled violently from the sensation as she shrieked,


    “What the hell are you doing, Anderson!”


    “Didn’t you say that you hated me?” Anderson chuckled as he leaned down on her and bit the corner of


    her lips in a demeaning manner, and the pain had almost caused her to exim out loud.


    The corners of his mouth quirked up as he whispered, “Now, will you be sickened by me or yourself more


    if your whole body is full of my scent?”