Chapter 275
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Matthew eyed Veronica darkly as his lips pressed into a thin line. “So. We’ll be at an impasse until I give
you what you want, is that it?”
He was one more push away from an outburst, but even so, he still spoke slowly and steadily. He was
calm, much like how the seas and skies were before a storm, as if he waspletely unaffected.
However, the more he behaved this way, the more anxious Veronica felt. She could sense that there was
a fire burning in him, consuming him.
Nheless, she went on to add insult to injury as she drawled coquettishly, “You don’t have to sound
like you’re forced into this. It’s not as if this is the first time you’ve tried to make me concede to you, right?
Although…” She shed him a captivating smile while her red scarf brought out a pink tinge to her
wless baster skin.
She looked as alluring as a poisonous poppy, but she was just as aggravating too.
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He had fallen deeply for her, he realized grimly.
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Having trailed off earlier, Veronica continued with wicked amusement, “I’ve never been one to run away
in the face of fear, Matt, so do whatever you like. I promise I won’t tell Grandma about it, because I’m
gracious like that.” As she said this, she reached up and pried his fingers off her scarf. She shrugged him
off and turned to get out of the car. She mmed the door behind her and walked away without so much
as a backward nce.
Left in the car with his insurmountable rage, Matthew clenched his fists and struck the steering wheel in
front of him once, then pressed the heel of his palm into the horn several times, disrupting the winter
serenity with several loud honks.
“Damn it!” he cursed aloud, then leaned back into his seat as he pinched the space between his brows.
Out of nowhere, a sense of helplessness seized him.
He wondered if all these years of getting his way had corroded his reasoning mind, or if his affections for
Veronica had clouded his judgment. Whenever she was around, he felt the need to subjugate her and
make her ede without question.
However, his attempts to do just that had been to no avail, and he realized btedly that her heart must
be carved out of stone if she could stand up to him repeatedly, each time bolder than thest.
The series of failures had him questioning his own abilities. How is it that I’ve managed to conquer the
business world but not one woman? Why is it so hard for me to win her over? He had lost, re-grouped,
and refined his strategies, only to lose again. It was like he was trapped in some vicious cycle.
From the driver’s seat, he could see Veronica’s proud figure walking ahead. He pinched his brows as he
watched her leave, and there was no telling what he was thinking about.
Meanwhile, Veronica was walking down the street huffily after leaving the car. As she kept up her pace,
she held onto her phone and searched for nearby cars she could hail, but not a single driver was willing
to pick her up. Worst still was the fact that there were no taxis driving by the area.
This is quite the conundrum, she admitted as she looked around.
Just then, her phone rang, and she hurriedly picked up the call when she saw Elizabeth’s name
disyed on the screen. She felt quite odd receiving a call from her at such an odd hour. “Hello,
Grandma.”
“Veronica, is it true that your master has been hospitalized after a bad fall?”
“Huh? Oh, right, yes.” Veronica slowed in her steps and turned around in disbelief. Sure enough,
Matthew’s car was crawling up to her. What is that jerk up to now?
“It’s gettingte, and I don’t want you to go back to Cabot Town alone. I’ve already spoken to Matthew
and told him to drop you off.”
“No, there’s no need for that, Grandma. I can just get a cab—”
Elizabeth cut her off mid-sentence. “I’ve heard the rumors flying around these days too. You’d better
believe that I gave Matthew a stern lecture, but he told me that the rumors only started after word got out
that you became my god-granddaughter. He said he only did that for your best interests. Silly girl; you
didn’t think he was actually out to get you, did you?”
Veronica rolled her eyes at Elizabeth’s exnation. Despicable! The guy’s shamelessness knows no
bounds! He did it out of my ‘best interests’? Seriously? Should I thank him then? She waspletely
baffled by how low Matthew would stoop just to get his way. I can’t believe he actually lied to an olddy!
Not wanting to expose him for being the lying and scheming devil that he was, she had no choice but to
go along with the false narrative as she replied, “Grandma, I never thought of him that way. I simply didn’t
think it was safe for him to drop me off at thiste hour.”
“Well, it’s all settled now. I’ll have that grandson of mine drop you off, and if he doesn’t, then he and I will
have a good talkter.”
“Oh, uh, Grandma, I—”
“Bye-bye now!” Elizabeth hung up before Veronica could say anything.
Sighing as she listened to the series of beeps on the other line, Veronica quirked her lips unhappily,
wondering what she had done to deserve all this.
A loud honk sounded next to her at that moment, and Matthew rolled down the car window with a
roguish, triumphant smile ying on his lips. He said nothing, which infuriated Veronica even more.
She clutched her phone and opened the car door, then barked, “How low will you stoop, Matthew? Your
grandmother is nearly in her seventies, and you actually bothered her with something like this? What are
you, a kid?”
He kept his right hand on the wheel and tapped against the edge with his fingers, contemting his
reply. “I’m only acting on Grandma’s orders. If you have a problem with that, take it up to her.”
“You know what, just let me down here. You don’t have to see this trip till the end. I promise I won’t tell
Grandma about this.” Thest thing Veronica wanted was for him toe back to Cabot Town with her
and create even more drama than there already was.
Matthew retracted his gaze and started the car, continuing down the road. “Should I be worried that lying
is second nature to you? I wonder how Grandma would feel if she found out you were a habitual liar.”
Being called a habitual liar by the likes of him irked her to no end, but she let this slide. Far too tired to
argue with him, she took off her scarf and draped it over herself, then closed her eyes as she willed
sleep toe.
Next to her, Matthew knew that she was still suffering from bouts of insomnia, and he couldn’t bring
himself to interrupt her rest. As such, he turned the heater on to full st and cruised ahead.
Veronica had not had proper rest since Vincere Games was set up. She leaned into the seat and let the
gentle swaying of the car treading down the road lull her into sleep.
Worried that she would be ufortable, Matthew lowered the back of her seat so that she could sleep
better. Thankfully, it was lowered so slowly that there was no sudden impact that would have woken her
up otherwise.
Just like that, she slept for a full two hours. Matthew had taken a shortcut to Cabot Town, and by the time
Veronica woke up, there was about another hour’s drive left before they reached their destination.
“Where are we?” she asked groggily.
“Glensbury,” he replied.
“That’s fast,” she observed, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes as she sat up. It was only after she had
gotten her bearings that she realized the back of her seat was lowered to a forty-five-degree angle. It
was no wonder that she had slept soundly through the better part of the journey.
She frowned at the thought of this and began to question what Matthew’s intentions were. All this
blowing hot-and-cold on his part was borderline psychotic.
“You don’t have to look at me with such immense gratitude,” he pointed out sarcastically. “I only did it
because someone asked me to.”
Veronica actually believed that by ‘someone’, Matthew meant Elizabeth.