The Billionaire Bride of Destiny 02

"Mother, your mask is ready, can I put it on for you now?"

Between flashbacks Cathy had made her way to the old Mrs. Lewis's door, she took a deep breath and knocked lightly on the door before saying.

"Come in!" The shrill voice of old Mrs. Lewis rang out.

Cathy pushed open the door and entered the room.

Old Mrs. Lewis's room was large, covered with expensive intricately crafted handmade woolen carpets, furnished with expensive antique furniture, and decorated with gold embroidered brocade draperies.

"You are too slow in doing things, I really can't expect you to do anything, you're just going to screw everything up! It's only seven hours until the banquet starts and yet I haven't even fixed my makeup or my dress, don't you know how rare Mrs. Lanyon's banquet are?" Old Mrs. Lewis was right in the middle of the room receiving her hair done by the exclusive styling team, seeing Cathy enter, old Mrs. Lewis started scolding again, 

"Never mind, what can I expect a hick like you to know?" Old Mrs. Lewis narrowed her eyes at Cathy, satisfied with her overwhelmed expression, and contemptuously continued, "It was a perfectly good idea of Kevin's not to allow you to go to such occasions, or else there's no telling how many jokes you'd have made, and how much of a joke you'd have made everyone look at us Lewis family. I'm in a good mood today, so I'll tell you. Mrs. Lanyon's real name is Olivia Melville, the eldest daughter of the Melville family, which is one of the top families on our rich list, and many of our industries rely on the Melville family. Mrs.Lanyon married Blake Lanyon, the Lanyon family being one of the most powerful, and both were very well suited to each other and made a good match. The couple is usually very low-key and doesn't often throw parties, this one was held because of a dinner party for the couple's son Leo to celebrate his 3rd birthday, and even though it's a birthday party, there will be a lot of bigwigs who will be there, so we're definitely not allowed to be late for the party. Kevin went to his cousin's place so he didn't need you to worry about his attire and you served me alone, but look at you, just serving me alone you're so slack, how can you go out and socialize as the daughter-in-law of our family? You really flunked out completely.“

Old Mrs. Lewis rolled her eyes at Cathy without ceremony and began to enjoy her all-natural, cruelty-free cucumber mask.

Cathy felt a little embarrassed at being taunted in front of so many strangers, and she bit her lower lip a little bit, wanting to leave the room, so she turned around on the pretext of fetching old Mrs. Lewis’s dress and jewelry for the banquet and left.

Cathy found it difficult and sad when she heard old Mrs. Lewis siad that Kevin didn't allow her to attend these public social occasions.

She remembered Kevin's comment that her manners and upbringing were not at all up to the standard of a lady, so he asked old Mrs. Lewis to help her with her upbringing and says that only if old Mrs. Lewis thought she's up to snuff would he allowed her to appear in public social occasions as a Mrs. Lewis.

Cathy could very well understand, but in all the spitefulness and scolding of old Mrs. Lewis during these three years, she sometimes felt a little despondent and wondered if she would never be able to live up to the standard of a lady for the rest of her life.

But Cathy, who was optimistic by nature, never let such emotions linger in her mind for too long, and she still reorganized her mindset and picked herself up again.

Now Cathy did the same, wanting some peace to sort herself out, so she went out to the small terrace at the end of the corridor and lay on the railing for a while gazing out into the distance in silence, unable to calm her thoughts in her mind.

She knew she wasn't exactly bright, and her experience growing up in an orphanage had left her with no time for so-called manners and upbringing.

She'd always been struggling to survive, and the only drawing she was good at was still taught by an old painter on a whim.

The orphanage was next to a private nursing home, and there was an old man in the nursing home who liked to laze around the fountain in front of the orphanage, and little Cathy liked to look over the fence at the fountain as the water sparkled in the setting sun. So the old man was bored and met the little Cathy.

During the conversation, the little Cathy said she wanted to become a painter, and it just so happened that the old man was a painter, he claimed that he was an unknown painter, and he felt that there was no point in continuing to paint one day, and so he stopped painting for a long time.

He started to teach Cathy how to draw, but it didn't last long. One year later, the old man suddenly left the nursing home one day, and the little Cathy didn't know anything about it, it seemed that all she could do was to keep on drawing, and Cathy thought that she might find her meaning one day.

Thinking about this, Cathy realized that she hadn't painted in a long time because she was so tired from living every day since she got married that she no longer had time to continue her hobby.

Cathy could not help feeling a little down in the dumps again, but she had spent enough time on the little terrace, and it was time to get away and do something, so silently rearranging herself in her mind, she got up and left the terrace and walked over to old Mrs. Lewis's checkroom to sort out her dress and jewels.

While arranging her gown, Cathy could not help thinking of Mrs. Lanyon, whom old Mrs. Lewis had just mentioned, and suddenly a little envy rose in her for that Mrs.Lanyon, whom she had never known, of rich birth, of a good family, of a loving couple, and of a child.

When Cathy thought of a baby, she thought of the fact that she had been married for three years and had not yet gotten pregnant, and a longing suddenly arose in her heart to have a baby that looked like Kevin.

Cathy imagined how happy Kevin would be with a baby, and how their family of three would be complete and happier.

Kevin would be a great dad, he would have his hands full changing diapers and feeding the baby formula.

Cathy smiled slightly shyly at the thought and secretly decided to wait until Kevin came home tonight to talk to him about having a baby.

With this thought, Cathy's depressed mood for the day was swept away and she was happy again. She hummed as she picked up her organized gowns and jewelry and walked out of the checkroom to deliver them to old Mrs. Lewis.

At six o'clock in the evening, old Mrs. Lewis was finally dressed and ready to get into the car to go to Mrs. Lanyon's banquet.

Before she got into the car she glanced back at Cathy who was standing in front of the servants and warned, "Don't think you're going to be able to take it easy until I get back tonight, you're going to have to sanitize the whole villa and have a hot bath and some good digestible late night snacks for me, I don't want to have to wait for you to do all of that when I get back."

"Yes, Mother." Cathy responded with a good-natured nod.

Satisfied with this, old Mrs. Lewis got in her car and left.

Although old Mrs. Lewis gave further instructions before she left, Cathy was perfectly content to have a relaxing break before she returned at 11:00 p.m. Cathy was in a very happy mood and turned to chat cheerfully with Milah as they walked along.

Cathy thought to herself as she went upstairs.

I'll start tonight by watching half of the last movie I saw with Kevin so I can discuss the plot in more depth with him.

She thought that the last time Kevin left halfway through a movie the last time he saw it was because she didn't have a more in-depth understanding of the movie and wasn't able to have some interesting discussions with Kevin, leading to Kevin's lack of interest.

After a quick cleanup of the room with the servants, Cathy couldn't wait to get back to her room and turned on the TV, adjusting it to the last node she had seen, while she waited for it to load, Cathy grabbed her cell phone from the nightstand, thinking to see if Kevin had sent her a message or anything else from her friends.

Cathy opened her lock screen and a message pop-up pops up, an unfamiliar number sent her a couple of messages, but Kevin didn't send a message.

Cathy tapped on the text message from the unfamiliar number with some loss, four text messages, and three picture messages that left Cathy frozen straight away, she couldn't believe what she was seeing.