322: Chapter 322

Chapter 322

"And my first question is…" Kate took a deep breath and readied herself for the answer coming from Sarah. "Did you accept the engagement annulment from Henry?"0

Sarah raised her brows, "You're very audacious, Katherine. Are you seriously asking me—the official fiancee of Henry Grant—if I accepted an engagement annulment or not?"

…

Kate stayed silent while waiting for Sarah's answer, which infuriated the latter. 

"The answer is obvious, right? Of course, I did not accept the engagement annulment," Sarah replied. "You see, unlike you, whose family is completely broken, with a child molester father, a dying mother, and a spoiled, narcissistic bitch as a sister. Henry and I have great families."

"The Grant family has a long history of old money in the state. Henry will eventually be given the noble title sooner or later because of his deeply rooted noble family in the UK."

"Meanwhile, I—Sarah Stone Lancaster—am the only daughter of the House of Lancaster. Our engagement has brought two important noble families together, and our union will signify a strong and powerful bond for centuries to come."

"And you're ruining everything, Mrs. Kept woman," Sarah sneered. "You just jeopardized the union of two important families because of your selfishness. Do you know this will also affect Henry? He will get into a lot of trouble by annulling this engagement."

Sarah wanted Kate to understand that she was nothing but a whore who ruined a political union. This bitch needed to know shame!

Kate listened to everything, including Sarah's insult towards her family, and nodded silently. 

Of course, she understood that her family was basically nonexistent. She stood on her ground, all by her ability. Though she knew that many women aspired to be like her, none of them realized how much Kate longed for a good family that loved her.

That's why she kept telling Henry the importance of a family. 

"Hey, are you listening to what I said?" Sarah asked annoyedly.

"I did," Kate replied. "Sounds to me that your engagement with Henry was truly an engagement of convenience."

Sarah frowned, "What do you mean? Do you think there is no love between Henry and me? Henry was in love with me when he was in high school!"

"I don't care about his past relationship. People moved on, just like how he moved on from you. Besides, you kept mentioning your family and his family repeatedly. You didn't even talk about him as a person, not even once," Kate said. She raised her chin slightly, looking down at Sarah as if she was nothing in front of her. "You don't love him at all. All you want is reputation, position, and title."

Ba-dum!

Sarah could feel her heartbeat accelerating unnaturally once she got called out by Kate. She wasn't surprised when Dahlia called her out for her ambition because she expected that sly old fox to know what kind of game Sarah was playing right now.

But Kate…

This peasant was supposed to be a regular woman who knew nothing. She was supposed to be a 9-5 worker who couldn't beat Sarah in any way possible.

'But how could she read me so clearly? Was it on my face? Am I not subtle and elegant enough?' Sarah began to question herself. 

"You are not the only one who can guess, Sarah," Kate said. "I also can read you clearly. You are an open book to me. So you don't need to lie."

"You—"

"Now, for my second question…" Kate interrupted, refusing to listen to Sarah's nonsense. "You don't seem to lack money and are not in love with Henry. So why are you trying to do so much just to keep the engagement? Do you not realize you will be trapped in a loveless marriage?"

Kate remembered about her marriage life with Matt.

Though they were initially married out of love, everything turned bitter in just a year after knowing that Matt refused to find a job and guilt-tripped her for everything, even went as far as saying that he was cursed because he married Kate.

As if Kate was the only reason why Matt failed in his life. 

After years of mental abuse, Kate finally depleted all of her love for Matt, and the only reason why she stayed with him was because she truly believed she would never find another man if she divorced him. 

"Trust me, a loveless marriage is not something you want to have," Kate said bitterly.

Sarah scoffed, "Stop giving me that sob story about you and that useless husband of yours. Our lives are vastly different," she said. "You have to work your bones off just to earn a decent living, while I am naturally gifted with riches since I was born. All I have to do is to get richer and more powerful, and I can get that by marrying Henry."

"Katherine Woods, you will never understand what it feels like to be born with a silver spoon like me, James, or Henry," Sarah said. "And you should know your place. You will suffer because of your low status, peasant."

"Is that how you answer my question? With meaningless insults?" Kate rolled her eyes. "I asked you why you are so stubborn in keeping the relationship with him, even going as far as trying to murder Dahlia."

"Because you won't understand my ambition in the end," Sarah said. "I don't want to waste my breath talking to a poor peasant like you. You should listen to my warning instead: Break off your relationship with him, or I will also have to do something very unpleasant to you."

"Really? Is that the best threat you can come up with?" Kate chuckled. 

Sarah's gaze darkened, "Why are you laughing? I am serious."

"And I am seriously laughing right now," Kate said between her laughs. She stopped laughing after some time and smiled at Sarah, "You can't even kill an old lady trapped in a mental hospital. Why would I get scared of a pathetic woman like you?"

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