CEO Proposed to His Ex-wife 99 Times

Chapter 477 Keep A Distance

Frances had remained quiet. After she made a complaint about her lonely life, Old Mrs. Grant threw a glance at Frances and said, "The other day I went to the church and happened to see your mother."

Surprised, Frances didn’t expect Old Mrs. Grant to be talking to her. She thought for a moment and replied, "Well, my mom did tell me the other day that she had that plan. I wanted to go with her, but I failed to make time for the trip." Actually, she was worried about Katherine.

Old Mrs. Grant nodded. "You mother has always been worried about you. She doesn’t speak it out, but I can tell she cares a lot about you."

Frances simply grunted.

Old Mrs. Grant found a place to sit down while Katherine kept on walking about.

Old Mrs. Grant said to Frances, "Do you have any plan for the future?"

It was such a general question that Frances had no idea how to answer it, nor had she figured out Old Mrs. Grant asked so whether to make her give up on Khalid or just sound her out.

Frances pressed her lips together and replied, "I don’t know. I guess I’ll go with the flow. At this stage of my life, I just want to do whatever I like."

Old Mrs. Grant nodded. "Yeah, just do whatever you like." And then she said nothing. Frances couldn’t figure her out.

Katherine walked around the garden and came back to Old Mrs. Grant’s side. "Has Ms. Willis been talking to Mr. Grant a lot lately? She even came to my house the other day."

Old Mrs. Grant was shocked. "Cora went to your house?"

Frances looked away, saying nothing.

Katherine explained, "She said she came to have a chat with Ms. Mason. I have no idea what she wanted to say, but she ended up leaving with Mr. Grant anyway."

Old Mrs. Grant gave a meaningful smile. "Oh really."

Frances felt uneasy voicing her opinions on this subject and stayed silent.

Katherine leaned back in the chair and said, "It was my first time to see Ms. Willis. Honestly, she’s an elegant lady."

Old Mrs. Grant agreed with her. "She looked even prettier when she was young, and she had a good temper, so many people liked her."

Katherine got curious. "Then why did she get divorced? Her ex-husband must have loved her, but why would he divorce her?"

Old Mrs. Grant replied after some consideration, "I heard it from a friend of mine. Seems that she caught her ex-husband cheating on her with anther woman. That man did everything he could to make her stay, but she was decisive and divorced him immediately. They had a child, but the child was old enough that the divorce hardly had any impact upon him. After that, she’s been living alone."

Katherine nodded after a while. "She’s been through a lot."

"Exactly, " agreed Old Mrs. Grant.

Katherine cast a look at Frances, thinking that she might not want to continue this conversation, so she didn’t say what she was going to say.

Lydia drove back as the three of them were hanging out in the back garden. She might have known that Katherine and Frances would come today and wasn’t surprised to see them, coming over with a grin. "Hello Frances. You came."

Happy that Lydia showed respect for her by greeting her, Frances nodded. "You were out?"

Lydia came to them and took a seat. "I did some shopping."

Old Mrs. Grant threw a look at Lydia. "How’s Lucas been doing lately?"

Lydia breathed a sigh as Old Mrs. Grant brought Lucas up. She darted a glance at Katherine out of the corner of her eye and replied, "I just let it go. Forget it. I won’t force him to do anything if he doesn’t want to, or it’d be depressing all day long in the house. It’s not worth it."

Old Mrs. Grant nodded. "Lucas is an adult now. Actually, you don’t have to worry about him over something like that. He knows what to do."

Lydia threw another glance at Katherine despite herself, which made Katherine frown because she found the look in Lydia’s eye was wary and defensive. Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

Lydia went on, "But Lucas is a reasonable kid. Maybe I nagged too much, I guess, and that annoyed him. If I hadn’t, he might have already got another girlfriend, so I might as well let it go."

Frances chimed in, "Our kids are adults now. They have their own way of doing things and won’t listen to us. We should let them make their own decisions, especially when their love life is concerned."

Lydia gave a nod.

Having hung out in the back garden for some time, Old Mrs. Grant got a little tired, so Katherine and Frances said goodbye to Lydia and helped Old Mrs. Grant back to the main house.

Just as Old Mrs. Grant was about to go back to her room, the butler came and told her someone just arrived.

The three women in the house were stunned as the butler said in earnest, "She says her last name is Willis, and that Old Mrs. Grant should know her."

Shocked, Katherine exchanged a glance with Frances with a frown. How dared that woman come to this place? What a cheeky one.

Surprised, Old Mrs. Grant grumbled, "Why did she come here?" But after that, she still asked the butler to show her in.

Cora followed the butler into the house and was dumbfounded to see Katherine and Frances. Suddenly, Katherine realized that Cora came to play up to Old Mrs. Grant instead of driving a wedge between Frances and the Grant family.

Cora said with embarrassment, "You’re also here."

Katherine nodded. "Yes, we moved back."

Cora handed the gifts she brought to the butler stiffly and gave a smile. "Oh really. Khalid never told me about it."

Katherine replied, "Well, maybe dad doesn’t think it’s a big deal."

Dad.

Old Mrs. Grant glanced up at Katherine, her lips curving into a smirk.

Frances said after thinking for a moment, "Take a seat."

Cora managed a smile and sat down. She looked at Old Mrs. Grant and explained, "I wanted to visit you long ago, but I didn’t because I had been unwell."

One could tell at a glance that Old Mrs. Grant was tired and she said, "It’s alright. I heard that you had a car accident, but fortunately, it wasn’t serious."

Cora replied, "Yeah. I dodged aside instinctively and it saved my life."

Old Mrs. Grant continued, "What did the driver say? He has to be more careful in the future."

Looking unnatural, Cora replied, "Yeah, their carelessness could have had a huge impact on others."

Katherine was an excellent face reader. In her view, Cora must be hiding something, or she didn’t want to talk about it.

After that, Old Mrs. Grant asked about Cora’s parents. Cora said that she only talked to them over phone. Back when she got divorced, her parents disapproved of it, which caused hard feelings between them, and that was also why she hadn’t told her parents about her car accident. What Cora said verified that it was indeed because no one took care of her that Khalid went to help.

Old Mrs. Grant said thoughtfully, "I believe they do love you. Of course, generation gaps exist, and you don’t have to listen to everything they tell you, but at least try to understand."

Cora smiled, "I see. But I think it’s a good thing that we keep a distance from each other. They don’t worry about me that much, while I don’t get that anxious."

Old Mrs. Grant said meaningfully, "Exactly. Of course there should be a distance between you and your parents, let alone some other man, right?"