A Billionaire In Disguise novel Chapter 19

“What happened at that party last night!” Madam Rosey shouted, glaring at her grandchildren.

The living room was awfully quiet as they all hung their head low, avoiding their grandmother's icy gaze.

“Someone better start talking?” Rosey said, slamming her hand against the chair arm.

There was a long pause, then Charles gazed at Catherine and smirked.

“All this is Catherine's fault.” He mumbled, pitifully staring at his grandmother.

A look of disbelief settled on Jeff's face as he threw his cousin a hard look and thought, ‘What are you even talking about now?’

Then he gazed at Richard and Chloe, and from their expression, Jeff could tell that they were thinking the same thing.

“How is Catherine to blame here? She got all four accounts.” Edward asked, scowling at his nephew.

“That's the problem, uncle. She got all three accounts that weren't assigned to her.” Charles said, shifting his gaze to the floor.

A devilish smile crept onto Chloe when she finally understood exactly what her cousin was doing.

Then she lost the smile, sadly stared at her grandmother, and said, “Don't you think it's suspicious that Catherine just so happens to have the perfect proposal for all four Catherine.”

When Madam Rosey’s cold gaze swayed towards Catherine, her heart sunk, knowing that her grandmother had fallen for her cousin's scheme just like all the countless times she did.

“Do you have anything to say for yourself, young lady?” Madam Rosey asked, glaring at her granddaughter.

“Mother,” Catherine's father said, feeling sorry for his child.

“Shut up, Edward. I don't think you and your daughter are the same person, so don't address a question that's meant for her.”

“Sorry, mother.”

A mixture of anger and sadness coursed through Catherine as she stared into her grandmother's eyes.

“I have been studying for the projects and jogging down ideas suitable for them. That's how are got the perfect proposals.” Catherine said with moist eyes.

“When did you start studying for them?” Elijah asked, glowering at his niece with hostility in his eyes.

Staring into his wife’s eyes, Rome slightly shook his head and thought, ‘Don’t answer that. It's a trap.”

“When grandpa told us about the projects,” Catherine mumbled, picking at her nails.

“See! She had a hidden agenda from the very beginning. She was craving what doesn't belong to her.” Charles said, pointing his finger at his cousin.

“Who knows if she had ruined our images to the chairmen, so she can get the projects." Chloe said, eyeing her cousin with hate in her eyes.

“I did no such thing!”

“Being defensive! Then why were you studying for projects that weren't yours?”

“Yeah, cousin. Those accounts were ours, and it was your plan all along to snitch them from us.”

Speechless from anger, Catherine took a moment to pulled herself together, coldly gazed at Chloe, and said, “I did not snitch anything from any of you! I earned those accounts fairly!”

"Really. Then why did all four Chairmen refuse to see any of us?” Jeff asked, scowling at her.

“You were the one pitching a proposal to the chairman of the MC group, even though the account was assigned to my wife at the time.”

“Haha! You must be going mad, telling such lies.”

“Oh, really? What did the chairman of the MC group say to your father again? Right, he said, ‘Because she earned it, unlike your son who tried to pitch a boring proposal to me.' Isn't that right?”

When Mr. Bralow’s eyes met Rome’s judging gaze, he frowned and angrily said, “Let him go, Charles. He may be worthless, but he isn't wrong. How dare you go after the MC group account when you were assigned to the Skylight company?”

“Grandpa, I was just trying to help Catherine. We all know how she's been messing up in the past.” Charles nervously mumbled, letting go of Rome’s coat.

“How can my daughter who has been messing up in the past suddenly have the ability to sway four top-notch chairmen's minds into giving her projects worth billions of dollars,” Edward uttered, glaring at his nephew.

The room became quiet for a while. Then Charles gazed at Chloe, Jeff, and Richard, but they stared the other way, maintaining their silences.

“So she got those contracts out of shed luck, is that what you are implying?” Elijah said, glowering at his brother.

“I don't know. But from what happened at the party tonight, it seems like my daughter was the only one who kept the family reputation intact, no thanks to your daughter and William’s son.”

“How dare you!”

Out of anger, Madam Rosey scowled at everyone's faces and shouted, “Everyone shut up and gets out!”

As they all walked out of the living room, Elijah walked over to Edward and said, “Do you know what happens to people who depend on luck, it runs out, and they are left struggling. The company doesn't need a person who preform because of luck."

A frown surface on Catherine's father's face, but he said nothing as he pitifully stare at his daughter.