Chapter 74 She’s Pretty
Catherine’s look remained dark all the way from the busy street to the Swanns’s residence. On ordinary occasions, Catherine was aloof, but now, she looked gloomy. Branden guessed she was angry, but he could not understand why she would be like that.
In the nick of time, Branden received Paxton’s message. He took a look, and a faint smile crept across his face. He thought, “Catherine is not totally cold and heartless.”
He gave his phone to Catherine, and his voice rang out, “Come on, have a look.”
Catherine got down from the motorcycle and saw Branden handing over the phone. She took it, tapped on the screen, and glanced at the information Paxton sent.
A cold light flashed across her eyes, and the aura on her was even more frightening. “What are you going to do?” asked Branden.
Catherine did not reply to that question. She handed the phone to Branden and demanded, ” Send me everything about him.”
“Sure,” Branden promised briskly and found the QR Code on his WhatsApp and showed Catherine. “Add me as your contact, and I’ll send it to you.”
If Triston were with them right now, he would say Branden was sly and took advantage of adding Catherine as a friend on WhatsApp. “Good for you, Mr. Duncan,” Triston would probably say.
Catherine thought nothing of it. She took out her phone and scanned the QR Code to add
Branden as a contact.
Then, Branden forwarded the information to Catherine’s phone.
After receiving the information she needed, Catherine turned to leave. She turned her back to Branden and raised her right hand high. She waved without looking back as a goodbye.
Branden stared at the thin figure. The corners of his mouth raised, and he said silently, “Good night.”
When Branden turned around, the car Paxton drove stopped steadily by Branden’s side.
Paxton got off, opened the car door for Branden, and waited by the door subserviently.
When Branden sat still in the car seat, Paxton closed the door for him and walked around to get in the car.
Branden fiddled with his phone. He tapped open WhatsApp and checked Catherine’s status, but there was nothing. It was as mysterious as she was.
Her WhatsApp profile photo was just a pure black picture, and Branden could not see any more profile information.
“Interesting.”
Branden made a cold snort, but there was a smile on his lips.
Paxton peeked at his boss in the backseat from the rearview mirror. He still kept a straight face, but there was a hint of disbelief in his calm eyes.
Paxton thought, “What the heck happened to Mr. Duncan?”
Branden had been indifferent and abstinent for over two decades and never allowed any female to show up around him within a hundred meters. Why would he be so serious about Catherine?
He now went drag racing with Catherine in the middle of the night and even drove Catherine home!
Besides, Branden meddled in Catherine’s family affairs, which was extremely weird.
When Paxton got the picture Branden sent him, he thought something big happened and arranged for men to check it out. Paxton even utilized the information network of the Duncans.
To his surprise, the man Branden asked him to check was merely a photographer whose name was Erik Burke. The woman was an influencer and a still model. She had not many fans, and there was nothing special about her.
After Paxton dug deeper, he found out that Erik, the photographer, had another girlfriend, who happened to be Audrey Swann, the eldest daughter of the Swanns. Only then did Paxton realize why Branden cared.
Erik got a lot of nerve. He had a romantic relationship with the eldest daughter of the Swanns while having an affair with an influencer. What was worse, they got caught by Catherine and Branden.
Well, Paxton knew that was the end of Erik
Paxton did not need to guess to know that Erik would not have a happy ending.
As for how miserable Erik would be, there would not be a limitation.
Branden raised his eyes to see Paxton’s puzzled pair of eyes.
Branden stared at Paxton for two seconds, and Paxton noticed it instantly.
It was too late for Paxton to flee. Since his boss spotted his puzzlement, Paxton could only tell Branden what was on his mind.
Paxton said hesitantly while there was timidness in his tone, “Mr. Duncan, what do you think is so special about Miss Swann?”
He was just curious why Branden would be so interested in Catherine.
Branden’s eyes moved, and a faint trace of a smile lingered on his lips. He spat out two words casually. “She’s pretty.”
Paxton heard Branden, but he still did not comprehend. He muttered to himself, “Miss Swann is indeed pretty, but there are a lot of pretty girls in the entire Casier. Mr. Duncan never darts a look at those girls, let alone being interested in them.”
Well, ordinary people like him could not be on the same wavelength as the big shots. Paxton kept his mouth shut. Catherine went to the school the following day.
The moment Catherine entered the classroom, she felt something wrong. It was not that Catherine’s classmates were weird, but Bryan was somewhat strange.
On ordinary days, when Bryan saw Catherine from afar, he would stand up to pull the chair out for her.
However, Catherine walked to her seat today, but Bryan still laid face downwards on the desk and was motionless. Catherine glanced around briefly at her classmates and saw David and the others kept their heads down silently.
Catherine did not ask Bryan to get up. Bryan was in his youth and sometimes did silly things, so Catherine ignored him. She pulled out the chair herself and sat down.
Catherine did not take it to heart, but her classmates started gossiping in whispers.
They all knew how Bryan idolized Catherine. Suddenly, Bryan neglected Catherine, so the others were all gossiping, and there were rumors on the grapevine.
Someone conjectured lowly. “Do you think Bryan falls out with Catherine? Without Bryan’s care for Catherine, she must be lonely and has a hard time.”
“Without Bryan, Catherine is still the chairperson of the Swann Corporation.” Another person. retorted the former one in dissatisfaction.
“Pff! That title is a mere bluff. Don’t you believe me? Ask Liana about her opinion of the so- call chairperson!”
With the conclusion of the person’s remark, people turned their eyes to Liana. In people’s eyes, Liana was the true daughter of the Swanns. Therefore, no one knew more clearly about Catherine being the chairperson than she did.
Under the curious gazes, Liana smiled faintly and looked as usual while her thoughts were spiraling.
“I’m not sure. My dad still makes the decisions, and I heard Catherine only needs to sit there. After all, Catherine just returned from the countryside, and there are things she doesn’t understand.”
Her classmates all understood what she implied. The Swann Corporation was a large corporation. How could it allow a girl returning from the countryside who knew nothing to be the chairperson? It was probably some kind of strategy to let Catherine sit there and turn people’s attention to her. It was normal among those large families.
Liana looked in the direction of Catherine coldly. Seeing, Bryan still face down on the desk, her heart jumped joyfully.
She thought, “Catherine gets to be bossy around because of Bryan!
“Let’s see how that jinx can continue being overbearing now that Bryan blows her off!”
The morning passed by, and here came the off-school hours. When the bell rang, Catherine woke up as a rule. She shot a glance at Bryan. He was still leaning against the desk.
Catherine let him be and put her hands in her pockets, ready to leave. As soon as she turned around, Bryan, lying on the desk, suddenly stood up. He stared at Catherine’s back and said. slowly, “Boss!”
Catherine heard the sound and turned back to look at Bryan with a slight raise of her brow. Bryan hesitated for a long time before asking Catherine cautiously, “Can I still call you ‘Boss’ in the future?”
After he went home yesterday, he was tortured all night because of the matter. He could not. accept the fact that Catherine was going to be his future aunt-in-law. But after Bryan pondered it, it seemed no one deserved Catherine other than his Uncle Branden.
Bryan was slumped for a day under the double torment of melancholy and hesitation. The school hours were almost over, and Bryan finally plucked up the courage to speak to Catherine.
Catherine looked at Bryan’s cautious appearance, and a slight smile arose on the corner of her mouth. As she expected, people at puberty were always dumb and silly.
“Never ask me such a stupid question again.”
With that, Catherine walked away gracefully. It took a while for Bryan to react, and he shouted at Catherine’s retreating figure, “Hail Boss! I love you! Boss!”
David thought, “Bryan must be out of his mind! He must be possessed.”
