At eight o’clock in the morning, Credence’s villa in the suburbs was brightly lit.
He had stayed up all night, his eyes entirely bloodshot. He opened the door of the study and walked out. Suddenly, he heard Maria’s quiet but exasperated voice from the guest room on the first floor.
“Miss Rosalie, you can’t take all of Mrs. Scott’s belongings away. What if Mrs. Scott needs these things when she comes back?”
Maria watched as Rosalie ordered people to move Dorothy’s belongings away. She was furious.
This woman was Mrs. Scott’s sister, and although she looked sweet and innocent, in truth, she was not a good person at all. She was constantly trying to seduce Mr. Scott and she wanted to take Mrs. Scott’s position. She was utterly shameless.
During this period of time, she did not know what kind of fight Mr. Scott had with his wife. She had not returned home for a long time, her phone was turned off, and no one answered it too.
Due to those facts, Maria had also been extremely anxious. She had a lot of blisters in her mouth, which was so painful that her mouth was burning with pain.
Mrs. Scott was such a kind and gentle person, so why didn’t Mr. Scott like her?
Watching as the workers busily continued to carry boxes of items out one after another, Maria was on the verge of breaking down. She quickly spread her arms to block the entrance and straightened her back as she stared fearlessly at Rosalie. She stated indignantly, “Miss Rosalie, stop. Tell them to stop immediately. Stop moving her belongings. These are Mrs. Scott’s belongings, and none of you have the right to move them around.”
“Shut up!”
Rosalie quickly walked up to Maria in her high heels. Her delicate features were filled with anger as she spoke, “You are just a servant. It’s not up to you to decide what I can, or what I can’t do.”
“You are trying your best to protect Dorothy’s belongings, but did you know she has long abandoned Credence and has run away with another man?”
“Should I still leave such a ruthless person’s belongings around, just to make Credence sad?”
“What? Did you just say that Mrs. Scott has left with another man?”
Fury flashed across Maria’s eyes, and she stared at Rosalie angrily. She shouted, “Rosalie, I know how Mrs. Scott is. I know her better than you do. Stop trying to slander her.”
“Let me tell you, Mrs. Scott only has Mr. Scott in her heart. She would never leave this family and Mr. Scott because of another man.”
“Miss Rosalie, although I am just a servant, I can still tell what’s right, and what’s wrong. Let me give you a word of advice. You should give up on pursuing Mr. Scott.”
After being scolded by a servant, Rosalie was so angry that her expression had turned grim. She could no longer maintain the gentleness and elegance on her face. She stepped on Dorothy’s white suit jacket on her high heels until it was full of dirty footprints. She bent down and picked it up, then threw it at Maria’s head. She smiled coldly and asked, “How much does Dorothy pay you? Don’t forget that Credence is the one who pays you. If I wanted him to fire you, then you would have to get out of the house immediately!”
“Who said that I wanted to fire Maria?”
As Credence came downstairs, he saw that Dorothy’s items and clothes had been scattered on the floor in the guest room. Many of her clean clothes had been stained with dust from the soles of the workers’ shoes, making them extremely dirty.
His heart was suddenly filled with rage. He turned around and glared at Rosalie sharply, “Who allowed you to touch the things around here?”
“I…”
The purpose of Rosalie’s move was to test her position in Credence’s heart.
The scene that she had witnessed last night had filled her with jealousy, causing her to lose sleep.
She had thought about it for an entire night, and she came up with countless ways to make a fuss.
If she could clear all of Dorothy’s belongings out of the guest room with Credence turning a blind eye to it, it meant that his feelings for Dorothy did not run deep. The fact that he had been angered from seeing Dorothy and Juelz’s intimacy could just be credited to the fact that his pride had been hurt.
Especially since he was a man with high status and great power. He had only ever been the one to abandon others, as it had never been the other way around.
Therefore, after Dorothy and him divorced, he realized that he had been reluctant to part with her only due to his unwillingness, and not because he loved her.
However, at that moment, Rosalie was terrified of the livid man with dark eyes in front of her.
She was filled with regret from what she had done.
“Credence, I really don’t mean anything else by this. I saw how sad you were yesterday. During this period of time, you’ve lost a lot of weight, and you must be feeling depressed.”
“I was just too worried about you. I thought that by removing Dorothy’s belongings, you wouldn’t be able to see them, then maybe you would feel a little bit better!”
After that, she lifted her head and looked at Credence pitifully, with tears welling up in her eyes.
Maria saw Credence, and straightened her back. She was not afraid at all, “Mr. Scott, early in the morning, Miss Rosalie brought a lot of people here with her, and she suddenly rushed in. She said that you and Mrs. Scott had already divorced, and that there was no need to keep all her belongings in this guest room. She asked them to take it all out to burn! However, these are all Mrs. Scott’s belongings. What makes her think she can decide on how to deal with Mrs. Scott’s belongings?”
After a pause, Maria finally asked, “Mr. Scott, have you really divorced Mrs. Scott?”
Mrs. Scott was such a nice person, and she loved Mr. Scott so much, but he had always turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to her. His actions were all because of this vixen before her.
She glared at Rosalie, who was pretending to be pitiful but still not forgetting to throw a flirtatious glance at Mr. Scott. Maria’s face was filled with anger.
Credence shot the indignant Maria a look, and he was reminded of the fact that since Benjamin had made the decision to hand Dorothy a fake divorce certificate, and the real divorce certificate was locked in a safe in his office-
It had been stamped with the seal of the Civil Affairs Bureau. Everything had been taken care of.
He and Dorothy were indeed divorced!
However, he did not want to let her go. What was the difference between being divorced or not?
“Go, put everything back in the room. Return everything to its original position.”
“Yes, Mr. Scott.”
After glaring angrily at Rosalie, Maria happily ordered the movers that Rosalie had brought with her to carry everything back into the room.
Rosalie was so angry that she nearly went mad. Her long fingernails left marks on her palms from clenching her fists too hard. Her entire body was trembling from the pain which knocked her back to her senses, and she quickly recovered her composure.
She looked up at Credence, and burst into tears with guilt, “Credence, I did this based on my own decisions. I’m sorry. I just can’t help but think of the pain Dorothy had caused me back in the underground parking lot…”
“In the underground parking? What kind of pain did you suffer there?”
Credence glared at her coldly, a cold glint flashing across his eyes.