Chapter 425


    Chapter 425 Baffled Hathaway


    Tessa bit her lower lips. With Nichs soothing her, her emotions gradually stabilized. She was moved


    to her core as she looked at that handsome and unrivaled man in front of her.


    “Thank you, Nichs.” She buried her face into Nichs’ chest with a sweet smile on her face.


    Thank you for always noticing whenever I’m feeling down, and thank you for always being by my side


    when I’m in a bad mood.


    With a tender expression that had never been seen by others, Nichs tightened his embrace on the


    lady. He took a nce at his watch before asking, “It’s almost 10 now. Do you want to go home with


    me?”


    Tessa shook her head before leaving Nichs’ embrace. “I can’t leave when the party is still ongoing.”


    After all, it was the philharmonic’s 20th-anniversary celebration. No one from the ensemble could leave


    before the party was over.


    Nichs nodded. “Then I’ll wait for you down here.”


    However, Tessa was reluctant to let him wait here alone. “How about you go home first? I’ll take a taxi


    back home after the party is over,” she suggested.


    Nichs gave no reaction and only stared at her in silence. His focused dark eyes were just like an


    abyss, as though it could suck people right in.


    Tessa was left with no other choice but topromise with the man. “Alright, you can wait if you want,


    but you’ll have to wait in the car. Since the weather has been coolingtely, I don’t want you catching a


    cold because of me.”


    “Okay,” he answered in a doting tone, the corners of his lips lifting and forming a faint smile.


    Soon after, Tessa went back to the party while Nichs stood alone at the entrance.


    His eyes turned gloomy for a moment as his attention was on the direction Tessa had disappeared to.


    He thought to himself that it wasn’t all smooth sailing for Tessa as well, and that it wasn’t as good as


    Tessa had made it out to be, especially when someone was picking a fight with her.


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    Though it was apetitive industry, it angered him to know someone was using such an


    underhanded tactic to get ahead of Tessa.


    Naturally, what angered him the most was Tessa crying over this matter.


    The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. How dare they bring tears to her eyes when


    even I am reluctant to do so?


    …


    Upstairs in a certain lounge room, Hathaway pped Kathleen in anger.


    “How could you have ruined Tessa’s violin? What did she ever do to you?”


    Kathleen touched her red cheek with her eyes full of resentment. “Because she seduced Scott!” she


    bellowed in discontentment.


    Hathaway was stunned by her daughter’s reason before frowning unhappily. “Tell me, how did Tessa


    seduce Scott? Is it just because Scott was teaching Tessa music?”


    “It’s different. Scott treats her differently from how he treats me,” Kathleenined with feelings of


    being wronged. “Scott always treats Tessa much more patiently and gently than he does with me.”


    Dumbstruck, Hathaway was taken aback and couldn’t find the words to say. She finally understood why


    her daughter had acted in such a way, but this had further fueled her anger as well.


    “Even if Scott treats Tessa differently, Tessa herself is already in a rtionship. Don’t you find your own


    jealousy baffling? As a violinist yourself, you know better than anyone just how important a violin is to a


    violinist! How could you have done such a sacrilegious act?!”


    Faced with her mother’s scolding, Kathleen parted her trembling lips as she answered in resentment, “I


    only wanted to teach her a lesson.”


    It was at this moment that Hathaway really blew her top.


    “Teaching a lesson by ruining her violin?! You’ve really wasted all that I have taught you all these


    years!”


    Feeling disappointed toward her daughter for failing to meet her expectations, Hathaway red at


    Kathleen.


    Initially, she thought that it was the work of some scoundrel that was envious of Tessa. Yet, she didn’t


    expect that it was her own daughter who was caught doing the deed on the surveince footage.


    “Kathleen, I’m giving you onest warning—if you can’t keep your emotions in check in the future, I will


    refuse Scott Brooks froming to the orchestra from now on.”


    Looking at her mother’s serious expression, Kathleen knew her mother was extremely furious this time


    and became slightly afraid as a result.


    Naturally, she did not want her mother to deny Scott from evering to the orchestra, as it would be


    difficult for her to meet Scott should thise to pass.