Chapter 10 C10

At the same time, Henry's phone rang.

He flinched for a second as if he was jolted awake. Unable to react in time, his expression froze.

"Hello, mom." He sighed in relief. If not for the call, he would have given himself away. That fellow was diabolical to trick him this way.

Under such circumstances, that if the person interrogating him had received a call and mentioned Cherry without warning, Henry would still show some hint of uneasiness, no matter how well-prepared he was.

He believed that that person was observing him from a hidden place right now. Knowing how powerful that person was, the uneasiness that had almost shown itself would have been noticed.

It was too dangerous.

"Nana, where are you? Today is your brother's engagement and I still don't see your brother's friends. He didn't answer my call either. Do you know where he is?"

"I know, letting your brother marry Cherry is extremely unfair for him. I, too, don't want to let him marry that ugly, stupid and useless woman," the woman began to complain when she brought up Cherry.

"But we can't offend the head of the West's family. Marrying a stupid woman has its benefits too such that in the future, she won't boss your brother around. Also, her share of the family's inheritance will belong to your brother one day." Henry's family had agreed to this union for they wanted the West's family's property.

"Mom, you should say this to my brother." Henry suddenly felt annoyed but amused at the same time.

Cherry West, a stupid woman?! Moreover, his mother had planned to plot against Cherry to acquire her family's property, which he thought was the funniest thing he had heard in his whole life.

His mother and his brother combined could never outsmart her. No, his entire family combined could never outsmart her.

"I can't contact your brother. Find your brother at once! He must not delay his engagement, although Cherry is stupid as hell and hideous..." The woman was in a panicky mood. Despite her dislike towards Cherry, her family did not want anything to go wrong during the engagement.

Only money and conspiracy mattered in marriages between wealthy families. Love? That was a luxury.

"Mom, I'm tied up with something at the moment. I'll hang up now." Henry Max refused to listen to any more of his mother's ramblings and so, he ended the call.

Last time, he would never have cared about such matters, but this time...

In fact, much earlier, he had only seen Cherry once. It was hard to describe his first impression of her.

He understood that his brother was reluctant to marry her, and he also knew that his brother liked another girl related to Cherry, Yet, his brother had never objected to the marriage openly. Yet, all of a sudden, he had disappeared today. Was he going to embarrass her at the engagement party?

Or did his brother think that she was too dumb and too easy to bully, thus...

When he recalled how well thought out her escape plan was, Henry suddenly feared that something bad would happen at the engagement party.

Henry thought that his mother and brother would be looking for trouble if they wanted to conspire against Cherry.

"F*ck, why did his phone have to ring?" In another room, Stanley cursed. "It ruined our plans!"

"Where's the engagement party?" Larry twitched his brows. On the contrary, he felt that the phone had rung at an opportune time.

Things were getting increasingly interesting!

"I think it's at Sterlings Hotel," Stanley answered instinctively, but his eyes widened at the next second. "What are you going to do, Larry? Are you going to..."

The engagement party was in the banquet hall on the second floor of Sterlings Hotel.

Henry had found a reasonable place to meet Cherry. When he saw how dolled up and how normal she was, he raised his eyebrows in surprise. Then, he laughed slyly. "I was invited to the police station just now."

She merely gave him a sideways glance and remained quiet.

Seeing her silence, Henry's smile grew wider. "Or, I'll return to the police station and tell them what I haven't told them yet."

"Just say it, what do you want to know?" Cherry looked at him and sighed quietly. Henry was evidently a liability and seeking his help would certainly lead to other problems. Now, all she had to do was to make sure the problems would not grow in scale.

"Apparently, you've been pretending to be an idiot all along and you've tricked everybody around you. Apparently..." There was no question about it now.

"Get straight to the point." Cherry had no patience for his words as she glanced at him emotionlessly, cutting him off.

Henry's lips twitched. He was supposed to threaten her today, but he felt as if he had ended up as the passive one.

Since when was he so easily pushed around by others?!

"I want to know what the hell happened last night. How did you offend that person?"

"I slept with him," Cherry spoke in a warm manner as if she was discussing the weather.

She knew that Henry would not stop bothering her without getting an answer.

"..." He was appalled. Yet at the same time, he felt frustrated and uneasy.

"Even though you've slept with him, does he have to pursue you that relentlessly?" Henry yelled in anger, but it seemed like he was hiding something.

When he noticed Cherry's slightly surprised look, he realized that he had lost his cool. So, he added another question, "Did you abandon him after that?"

If she did, she was too cruel!

"No, I just gave him a "service fee" and took his clothes away." Cherry pouted innocently. In fact, she did not do anything bad to that man and the latter did not lose anything either. Did he have to resort to this pursuit?

"..." Henry's lips twitched in fury. All she did was give him a "service fee" and took his clothes away!

In his opinion, what she did was no better than crippling that man!

Whoever got into this situation would surely be angry; it was good enough if one did not get mad with her.

However, Henry was suddenly envious of that man.

"Are you... Are you going to be engaged with my brother today?" As he said this, he felt the rapid beating of his heart.

She was a smart woman and should know that his brother disliked her. Besides, she must be aware of the true intention of the Maximilian family. In this case, would she still become engaged with his brother?

What on earth was she up to? Did she have another plan?