Chapter 373 Jealous Matthew
Only a muffled hum was heard and with a creak, the log instantly split in half. He took another log and repeated his actions. He first properly placed the piece of wood before he swung the axe, riving the log in half all in one go.
Matthew’s company and Veronica’s family stood by the door as they watched his every move.
Veronica soon shifted her eyes to glare at Crayson with a displeased gaze, and she angrily reached over and tugged on his goatee. “Don’t you think this is a little too much, Master Crayson?”
In any case, Matthew was the richest and one of the most powerful men in Bloomstead.
And that exact superior man is now chopping wood at my house? How is this any different from a demotion? she fumed.
“What is this? You are already siding with an outsider whom you aren’t even married to yet?” The old man huffed in annoyance and knocked Veronica on the head with his tobacco pipe. “You don’t know chalk from cheese, you brat.”
“Your master is right, Veronica. He is only doing this for your own good,” Daniella joined in with the nagging.
“Hmph!” Tony snorted. “Aren’t you all keeping the secret too well? I am the only one who doesn’t know anything.” He then turned around and headed to the yard.
“What are you getting angry at, Tony? I also only just found out,” Daniella explained as she hurried after him.
After Crayson went with them as well, only Caleb, Skyler, Miguel and Veronica were left standing by the door.
As he did not take the situation seriously, Skyler joined in the fun by taking out his phone and pointed it at Matthew for a video. “Tsk! What an interesting day today is. I must take some photos for memory’s sake.”
“You are trying to get yourself killed again,” Caleb, who was leaning against the door frame with his arms crossed, said with a half-smile.
Miguel brought his hand up and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. “Even the toughest of men can turn soft in front of a woman,” he mused. Matthew would always have that haughty and cold demeanor that kept people away, but he still had to do anything he was told to do once he had stepped into his in-laws’ house.”
“Haha! You are a wise man, Miggy!” Skyler started laughing at the top of his lungs while pressing one hand on his abdomen as he took the video with one hand.
Veronica was at a loss for words. What a bunch of crappy friends, she thought.
Honk! Honk! Right at this moment, a white Cadillac sedan drove over and stopped in front of Veronica’s house.
“Who is that? Roni, you have a guest,” Skyler informed Veronica while putting away his phone.
Not knowing who it was herself, she walked over to the car.
A man in a gray trench coat came out as soon as the door opened, and it was only then that Veronica realized it was Hendrey.
“Merry Christmas, Veronica.”
He alighted from the car and greeted her before spreading out his arms to give her a hug. He was probably used to how foreigners greeted each other after staying abroad for an extended amount of time.
She accepted the hug rather naturally and out of courtesy, gave him a brief friendly hug. “Merry Christmas! Why didn’t you tell me before coming over?”
“Of course it is because I wanted to surprise you.” As he spoke, his gaze moved to look at the few people standing at the door. “You got company?”
“Mhm. It is Matthew and his… friends. They came here together.” Veronica glanced behind her, and the trio came over immediately.
She proceeded to introduce them one by one. “This is Skyler Robins. That one is Caleb Shaw, and that is Miguel Lynch.”
“Oh—Young Master Skyler, Young Master Caleb and Young Master Miguel, I have heard a lot about all three of you. It is an honor for me to finally meet.” Skyler greeted them politely as he stepped forward and shook hands with them.
Even though Hendrey had just returned to Bloomstead, he had indeed known about them long ago that they came from wealthy backgrounds, had high social statuses and extraordinary abilities, and they were good friends with Matthew.
“Hendrey Johnson? D*mn… You are one good-looking man. I am sure you have tons of girlfriends,” Skyler smilingly teased with his eyebrows raised.
“You flatter me, Young Master Sykler.” Hendrey’s formal smile remained plastered on his face as he moved to shake hands with Caleb.
Caleb kept being the enigma he was and only indifferently greeted, “Hey, man.”
Miguel also shook hands with Hendrey after that. “As far as I know, you have just returned to the country, haven’t you, Mr. Johnson? How do you know so much about us?”
The seemingly normal conversation felt prickly for some reason.
“You all are famous people in Bloomstead. I can’t not know even if I don’t want to.” Hendrey laughed with his chin raised.
He swiftly tilted his head to look at Matthew, who was putting his all into chopping the wood at the side. “Is that… Young Master Matthew?” Hendrey asked despite already knowing the answer.
“Sure is. I am sure you know that Matt confessed to Roni. Roni’s parents have been treating Matt like one of their own, so they asked him to chop up some wood just to exercise his muscles.”
Skyler might be a bad influence of a friend at usual times, but he can be loyal in the face of an enemy.
He had picked up the sarcasm in Hendrey’s voice when Hendrey spoke earlier, and Skyler quickly retaliated by offering an explanation that also reminded Hendrey of the relationship between Matthew and Veronica.
It would be better to make Hendrey realize how he was behaving now.
Just as Skyler had expected, Hendrey’s smile gradually disappeared after he said those words. Even the man’s pitch black eyes seemed to grow dimmer by the second.
However, all of that change in emotion seemed to last for only a second.
“Is that so?” Hendrey let out a warm and bright smile again. “Look at how much you have grown. You are at that age where you will soon be talking about marriage.”
At that moment, Hendrey raised his hand to caress Veronica on the head, only to stop when Matthew’s voice rang out.
“Roni?”
Hearing that, the group of people tilted their heads to look at him. He was standing there with his windbreaker jacket removed, and he was holding it in his hand instead as he hooked his fingers at Veronica, signaling her to come over.
“Matthew Kings, what are you doing on such a cold day?! Are you giving up on warmth just so you can look good?” Veronica boomed at him while stomping her way to him.
Hendrey’s fingers froze in mid-air, and he retracted his hand bashfully to slip it into the pocket of his suit pants.
“Worried that I would feel cold?”
Even though Matthew was asking her, his eyes were fixated on Hendrey as he threw Hendrey a knowing look.
After she got close to him, Matthew unhesitantly held Veronica’s hand, but he ended up frowning. “Huh! Won’t you look at this? You said that I would rather look good than feel warm, but just feel how cold your hands are.”
As he said that, he walked behind her and draped his jacket over her torso. “Come on, now. You have a guest. Don’t just stand there. Hurry up and bring him into the house. What if rumors spread about how we aren’t hospitable?”
There was nothing wrong with the impressive words he said, but Veronica couldn’t help but feel there was something strange going on.
With a frown on her face, she scrutinized Matthew and hissed softly, “What are you doing? I told you that Hendrey doesn’t like me.”
Does he think of me as an idiot who can’t pick up what he is implying? The man leaned over and when his lips were next to her ear, he replied in a low voice. “I have no choice. It is your fault for being such a charming woman, Roni. You make me feel so… insecure.”
His magnetic voice was comparable to that of famous voice actors. It sounded so good that Veronica thought all her limbs were weakening.
They were practically in each other’s faces as they whispered to each other. That made them look so intimate that one might think they were joined at the hip.
“Can you please be normal, Matthew? I almost threw up my meal from yesterday,” Veronica barked at him before swiftly turning her head to look behind. She was somehow greeted by the sight of the four men staring at the couple unblinkingly.
Their sharp gazes made her feel as though she was sitting on pins and needles, and she immediately explained to Matthew quietly, “The one Hendrey likes is Tiffany. They are already together.”
