SWNOVELS Chapter 50 Be the Apple of His Eye
Chapter 50 Be the Apple of His Eye
Natalie had no recollection of it at all, and naturally she couldn't remember what she felt.
She was placing her mind elsewhere, and accidentally touched the wound on his lips.
He gasped visibly.
She came back to earth and apologized hurriedly.
She tightened the lipstick and handed it to him. Finding that he had no response, she handed over the lipstick again and said, "Well, cool down. Just remember to use it when you have time!" Kendrick took the lipstick.
As he saw that her eyes resembled a pair of crescent moods, he found it hard to be angry with her.
However, when he thought of those absurd things she had done, he just couldn't work his anger off.
Outwardly she looked rather cute, but in fact she was not like that at all. She was quite arrogant, feeling that she was perfectly capable.
Kendrick continued to leave her alone.
"I know it is all my fault. I do. Please don't ignore me."
She stretched out her hand and pulled the hem of his clothes, "Anger is bad for your health."
She never expected that he would get cross.
She always thought that he didn't have any mood swings.
Kendrick reached for the wound on his upper lip and snorted coldly, "You'd better mean it."
Hearing that, Natalie nodded quickly, "Next time I will tell you in advance."
"This is the last time." He interrupted her impatiently, "Give me the drugs later!"
She opened her eyes wide as she heard that, and said in disbelief, "Do you want to have a try?"
At that moment, he obviously felt a sharp rise in his blood pressure.
He put his hand to his forehead with a sense of helplessness and said, "Just stay at home peacefully this week. You are not allowed to go anywhere!" All right!
She just said that rashly, didn't she?
How could she be locked in a "small black room" just because of it?
...
In the afternoon, Kendrick was watering the flowers in the greenhouse.
He had planted a variety of orchids.
Just one orchid would at least cost over one hundred thousand dollars.
The lotus-petal-shaped orchid was worth millions.
And it was rather delicate, difficult to plant.
But Kendrick just loved it.
Although he was indifferent and cold, he would do his best to treat everything he loved.
It was a pity that he had been fond of very few things.
Naturally, others had no such experience of being the apple of his eye.
The sunshine fell on him. He was at a rarely quiet moment.
Natalie suddenly pushed the door open and said, "There is a call for you."
His phone was placed on the coffee table in the living room, and it kept ringing.
As he reached for the phone, he heard her words, "It's Reuben!"
He guessed that Reuben's phone call must be about Nora.
Kendrick slid to answer the phone and tapped the "speaker" on the screen. Reuben's voice came from the phone.
He first took a few deep breaths, and said after calming himself down, "Look, Kendrick, I have to tell you about this, or I will never stomach such an insult. Really, I don't expect that I will have such an ungratefu brat as my daughter after 20 years of hard work and education. Look, from now on, I will disown her. She is rather vicious and wily. Natalie jerked her mother around and played tricks with her. Now Nora is highly unstable. She cries and wants to commit suicide."
"Shall I call the Center for Mental Illness for you?" said Kendrick with concern.
Reuben was speechless.
It could be found that Reuben was rather angry. His heavy and harsh breathing could be heard from the phone, "Well, I told you about it but I didn't ask you to do me justice. I just want to remind you that Natalie has been rather extreme and weird since she was a child. Something is wrong with her mental state. Well, other members of the family always let her win, but she is just ungrateful and bullies her sister instead!"
There was coldness in Kendrick's face, "Well, Mr. Quinn, that was not what you had said to my grandfather, wasn't that?"
What Kendrick was saying made Reuben gasp.
In order to marry Natalie, he exalted her to the skies at that time.
"There must be some solutions." He said suddenly and viciously, "If you insisted on protecting her, I'm afraid I will go into reverse. Don't blame me then."
Kendrick smiled as he heard that, "Are you sure?" Slowly, his smile turned into laughter with irony, "Want to abandon the joint development right of West Goldburg?" Reuben became just under his control.
Kendrick hung up the phone and then looked at Natalie.
Her expression was rather subtle. She said with a frown, "He just spoke ill of me in my presence, didn't he? He is not in his right mind!"
"Your father wants to disown you completely." said Kendrick.
"Just all right!"
"He won't give up that easily." He said, "Judging from his tone, I guess he just can't stomach such an insult."
Natalie said angrily, "How can he be so shameless? It was Nora who wanted to frame me and she just went for wool and came home shorn."
She was straightforward. As she grew up in a relatively open and honest environment, naturally she had no idea how shameless some people could be.
Kendrick pursed his lips and said, "Barring accidents, I think he will stab me in the back."
She now started to know that she had caused him some trouble.
"Sorry to bring you trouble." She stopped being arrogant at last.
Kendrick signed softly. His voice sounded a little sad, "A big trouble!"
Natalie was a bit unsure. Although she knew that Kendrick, the mogul, was almost invincible and could deal with those little cannon fodders, like Reuben, without difficulty, now the plot was different from the one of the original book.
It was much earlier to turn against Reuben.
She had no idea whether Kendrick had a full plan.
Suddenly, she crouched down and grabbed his hand.
Did she feel that she caused him trouble and thus regretted and wanted to apologize?
To cry and ask for his forgiveness?
"Then take this opportunity to oust him!"
She was rather determined, saying with pride, "I trust you!"
He chewed his lips as he heard that, unexpectedly at a loss for words.
"We are in the right." Natalie said, "Well, Reuben is just bluffing and in fact he lacks confidence. Otherwise he won't keep speaking ill of me and wants to make a psychological attack, will he?" She analyzed calmly, "He just wants you to misunderstand me and to be on his side. But he doesn't know that I have evidence."
She held Kendrick's hand tightly and said, "Look, I'm not like that. Trust me. I'm optimistic, cheerful and positive, with a high IQ of 180. I'd offer to hand in the money whenever I find it. From trivial things, such as helping an old lady cross the road or a child across a puddle, to something significant..."
"All right!" He chewed his lips, "I trust you!"
Hearing that, she nodded, "Reuben has been stabbing you in the back for a long time. Just kick him out quickly!"
After saying that, she felt that she was talking rashly to him again, and thus moved on hurriedly, "I know him. Well, that's what he is like. How can he tell tales about his daughter? A child is better unborn than untaught. It is the lack of home education that makes the child bear some problems. Well, certainly I'm all right, but he is not."
Kendrick stared at her.
Suddenly a phrase occurred to his mind.
"Different fireworks."
It was her!
With helplessness, Kendrick smiled, showing her some favor unexpectedly.
"Just go to the study and bring me the sandalwood box on the desk."
Natalie ran upstairs briskly, and soon came down. She gave him the sandalwood box in her hand.
Was it something precious?
Rather mysterious.
Kendrick opened the box where the fragrance of sandalwood came.
There was a protective talisman inside.
He picked it up from the box with his long fingers, and said to her, "Give me your hand!"
Natalie followed his words obediently.
"The protective talisman!"
He put the little stuff in her palm and said, "It's for you!"