Spoiled by the President novel Chapter 359

Celine froze as she turned around.

Stephanie quickly laughed to hide her deliberateness.

Celine raised her eyebrows as a trace of realization flashed in her eyes before she explained, “Are you talking about the butterfly birthmark on my back? I did have it when I was a child, but it slowly went away as I grew up.”

She answered casually without any trace of nervousness or guilt as if she was talking about something completely normal.

Stephanie pursed her lips.

“Is that so? I didn’t know birthmarks could disappear.”

Celine smiled. “Me neither, but this kind of thing isn’t unheard of. After all, it’s just pigment on the body. It’s common in medicine too.”

Stephanie nodded at this.

“I see.”

The two stopped talking. After they had finished their food, they did not go back to the pool. Instead, they sat around casually for a while before going home.

When Old Master Garrett heard that they had gone out together in the afternoon, he subconsciously frowned and had a bad feeling about it.

Although he was a man, he knew the feelings between those girls.

Stephanie had been very cold to Celine ever since she came back.

After the scandalous incident last night, it was reasonable that Stephanie would ignore Celine more today, or maybe even mock her.

Not only did she not do that, but she even asked Celine out after lunch?

Old Master Garrett could sense something wrong, so as soon as Celine and Stephanie returned home, he secretly called for the latter.

“Grandpa, you called for me?”

Stephanie walked into the room and asked respectfully.

At this time, Old Master Garrett was sitting in a rocking chair with his eyes closed.

Hearing her voice, he opened his eyes and motioned for her to close the door.

So, Stephanie turned and shut the door before walking over to him.

“Grandpa, is there something you needed?”

Old Master Garrett watched her and asked in a low voice, “Where did you take Celine to earlier?”

Startled, Stephanie pursed her lips.

She lowered her head and said softly, “We didn’t go anywhere. We just went to the new Hot Spring Villa to soak in the hot spring for a while.”

Old Master Garrett stared at her suspiciously. “Really?”

In return, Stephanie gave a mocking smiled.

“If grandpa doesn’t believe me, you can ask Celine instead, or are you still worried that I’ll bully her?”

Old Master Garrett raised his eyebrows.

After a moment, he said, “You don’t have to provoke me with such words. Although she’s back now, the two of you hold equal weight in my heart. I raised you since you were a child and have never treated you as an adopted granddaughter.”

Stephanie stood there in silence.

Old Master Garrett paused for a few seconds before he suddenly asked, “Do you know that the Grahams has rejected Celine marrying into their family last night?”

Stephanie nodded. “I know.”

Old Master Garrett’s expression twisted.

“Why?”

“Grandpa, I’m your granddaughter, not a tool you use in exchange for benefits. I know that you’ve always wanted to establish a marital relationship with the Grahams in order to keep the Garretts prosperous.

“However, I believe that we should rely on our own abilities for that, not on the marriages of your children and grandchildren! If we can’t do that, even if we go through the trouble of climbing into the Graham family, we’ll have to lower our heads and listen to them in order to survive. What’s the difference between that and being a beggar on the street?”

Old Master Garrett’s face immediately darkened. He thundered, “What nonsense are you spouting? Which part of our Garrett family is inferior to the Grahams? Why would it be begging? Where do you think the food you eat and the clothes you wear now come from? Do you think that power and profit can really be obtained by personal ability alone?

“The capital is a deep pool and the complexity of the network of relationships and interests in it is beyond what you can imagine. If we marry into the Graham family, it’ll be an alliance between two giants. Otherwise, when I’m no longer around in the future, what will your two uncles be able to accomplish? When that time comes, do you think you will still be the high and mighty darling daughter of the Garretts?”

Stephanie shook her head.

“Even if I can’t, it’s better than marrying someone I don’t like.”

“Nonsense! You’re still young. You think that love and freedom will trump over everything. When you’re old, you’ll know that all those things are an illusion. Only people who have nothing will believe that. True freedom is something you obtain by standing at the top. Do you understand?”

Stephanie wanted to laugh.

She always knew that her grandfather was someone very passionate about power.

It was not like he had never tried pushing his ideas on her and tried to make a fuss about her marriage.

In the end, he had given up and she thought that he would not mention it again.

Unexpectedly, he actually proposed for her to marry Nathan Graham today!

Stephanie smiled self-deprecatingly.

“I understand what you mean, grandfather, but I don’t care about all that. I can do anything you ask me to for the family, but please don’t use my marriage to get the glory that belongs to you. I can’t do it, and I won’t agree with it either!”