All Her Secrets By Chestnut Chapter 40
Chapter 40 Why Wouldn’t I?
Triston also noticed that Audrey didn’t seem to understand what he was talking about. He pointed a finger at Branden, then at Catherine.
Audrey understood immediately that Triston was talking about Branden and Catherine being engaged.
In the upper-class community, Branden was the dream of marrying the Duncans as their lifelong ambition less girls. Many people took.
However, Branden was cold and didn’t like to socialize with others. He spent most of his time on his work and was rarely heard to be involved with any woman.
In fact, Branden was even once rumored to be gay, as there was only all the Fiston by his s time. Audrey studied Branden carefully with a brief glance at him.
Even though she had only taken one look at him, Audrey was almost frozen by Branden’s cold presence. She looked away hurriedly and didn’t dare to look at him again.
Even though Branden was a great man, Audrey felt he was incompatible with Catherine. Audrey didn’t know what Vicente was thinking about when he had made such an arrangement.
In Audrey’s opinion, her sister was too soft as she had just returned from the countryside. She would easily get hurt from being with a bossy man like Branden.
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that Catherine would be looked down upon. To protect Catherine, Audrey immediately, “Vicente and the others arranged that. Young people
accept arranger with that. You’re a young man yourself, Triston. Would you really
accept arrangements like that? It’s such a joke. If you don’t believe me, why don’t you ask Mr. Duncan if he would agree to that?”
Before Triston could answer, Branden, who had remained silent since ordering the chicken tikka masala until now, spoke suddenly, “Why wouldn’t I?”
His words stunned everyone.
Audrey’s jaw dropped from the shock. Triston also looked at Branden with a horrified expression.
Even Catherine, who was focused on her food, looked up at Branden.
Her brows were knitted on her exquisite face.
She didn’t take Audrey and Triston’s conversation seriously and let them roam free with their chitchat. She didn’t expect Branden to speak up so suddenly.
Catherine raised her head slowly and looked in Branden’s direction. He was sitting in the far-
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end corner, looking lazy and casual.
As she turned her eyes on him, he happened to look at her too.
Their eyes met. The two of them, who were used to being the best in their respective fields,
seemed to have met an even match.
A moment later, Branden looked away first.
For no reason whatsoever, every time he looked into Catherine’s eyes, Branden felt as if his blood was boiling from excitement.
Catherine also looked away after Branden looked away.
Soon, the pair returned to their normal states.
When Catherine looked up at Branden again, she was emotionless and asked somewhat seriously, “Are you saying you agree to it then?”
Branden sneered and said, slightly taunting, “You haven’t fulfilled what you promised me yet, Miss Swann. How can I agree to it now?”
Catherine glanced at him and stood up slowly. “I’ll fulfill it in a week’s time!”
With that, Catherine turned to leave.
Audrey was so shocked that it was a moment later when she reacted. Catherine was already at the door when Audrey called after her hurriedly, “Kathy, where are you going?”
Without looking back, Catherine uttered a three-word answer.
“Back to school!”
Audrey caught up with Catherine quickly and didn’t even have time to bid Triston and Branden goodbye.
Triston only came out of a daze when Catherine and Audrey were gone.
He approached Branden and sized him up with squinted eyes fiercely. “Mr. Duncan, you were naughty. How can you not tell me you have been negotiating with Catherine? What a poor
friend you are.
”
Then, Triston smiled and looked at Branden curiously. “So, Mr. Duncan, what is it that you and Catherine were talking about?”
Branden turned to look at him calmly. His cold eyes swept past Triston.
Branden made Triston cower in silence and look at him in horror, even without speaking.
Branden spoke coldly in an equally cold expression, “Any other question?”
Triston shook his head hard, looking fearfully at Branden. “No… No more questions. I’m not interested in it anymore all of a sudden!”
Having gotten a satisfactory answer, Branden got up to leave with the car keys in his hand. He didn’t forget to leave two words behind before he left.
“Your treat!”
When Triston came out of his daze, Branden was already long gone.
Looking at the tableful of food, Triston was so annoyed that he threw his fork down.
Hang on. Why did he feel as though Branden and Catherine were quite alike? They looked exactly the same by walking off just like that..
Could it be that they were really a match made in heaven?
Catherine received a call from Ronin when she got back to school.
As the call was connected, she heard Ronin’s horrified voice as if the end of the world was coming.
“Boss, are you really at school?”
Catherine held the record for being the youngest student to graduate from a top school in Ocraolia. It was a joke for Catherine to return to high school after graduating so many years
ago.
Ronin considered this to be a joke when he first heard about it. He only confirmed this ridiculous news when he saw Catherine’s signature on the enrollment notice.
His Boss was really in high school again!
Catherine grunted calmly and didn’t say anything else.
It was already a blessing for Ronin to get a response from Catherine.
Now that even though he had countless questions, he didn’t dare to ask any more of them.
He reported what he had found to Catherine, “Boss, I’ve checked the Blondie you told me about. In the morning, he received a sum of money in his account, which was transferred to
him from Liana!”
Catherine squinted her eyes slightly and looked straight ahead. Ronin’s finding had confirmed. her guess. Liana was really the one behind her attack before lunch.
After learning that Liana hired a gang to attack Catherine, Ronin was so mad that he almost. came over to Casier to beat Liana up himself. He asked through gritted teeth, “Boss, should I do something to teach Liana a lesson? She is too arrogant. I think it would be a good idea to kidnap her and leave her on Mochax Island alone to cool her head.”
Hearing Ronin’s anger, Catherine only said softly with a light smile, “No. Leave Liana to me.”
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What Liana had done didn’t affect Catherine at all. In fact, Catherine didn’t even break a sweat.
Since she promised Vicente that she wouldn’t harm anyone from the Swanns, she would keep
her word.
She had made such a promise at Vicente’s deathbed. As long as Liana didn’t challenge her bottom line, Catherine wouldn’t harm Liana.
After all, it would only take a word from her to have Liana destroyed completely.
At first, Catherine wanted to plan about this later. Now that Ronin had called her, she decided to tell him first.
“Ronin, arrange to give the dealership of ‘The Storm’ in Eskana to Duncan Corporation.”
“Boss, I heard that someone from Duncan Corporation is investigating you. If we give the dealership to them now, wouldn’t they trace it back to you?” Ronin, who was on the other end of the line, was slightly worried after learning about Catherine’s decision. After all, only the head of Hacker Alliance could make such a decision.
“Let him investigate all he wants!”
She sounded determined, powerful, and confident.
With a light smile, Catherine thought to herself, “If Branden can find out about my identity, he is truly capable.”
