The Heiress Nobody Saw Coming (Natalie and Marcus) novel Chapter 156

Grace cried for a long time. Charlotte stood there with her arms crossed, watching coldly, and showed no sign of comforting her.

In the end, Grace began to hiccup between sobs and stopped crying. She refused to take her medicine. She turned over and closed her eyes to sleep.

Charlotte sneered. She thought Grace would cry until it was dark, but clearly, her stamina was lacking.

"Grace, please rest well. When you recover, we will take you back home. Natalie's room is already prepared, and you have seen it. When Natalie returns, you can stay with her. You two have a deep bond. Nobody can separate you."

Charlotte spoke softly. She pulled up the blanket to cover Grace, then turned and walked out of the hospital room.

As soon as she stepped into the hallway, her gentle expression vanished and turned cold instead.

William was on the phone, giving instructions. He had arranged a new company for his daughter.

Natalie usually wore a black jacket and work pants. She tied her long hair up and never wore makeup, but she was still beautiful. Still, she always wore black, which seemed gloomy.

So, William and Charlotte decided to give Natalie a fashion company. The company produced new designs every day. Since Natalie was pretty and had a great figure, they wanted her to wear more stylish and colorful clothes.

The Langleys had acted horribly all these years. As parents, William and Charlotte had not known before, but now that they did, they could not let their daughter endure more mistreatment.

Charlotte had already given birth to five sons before finally having the daughter she had longed for. She wished she could keep her child protected in the palm of her hand. She definitely would not allow the Langleys to get away with what they had done.

"The Langleys don't deserve anything. And Grace deserves nothing either," Charlotte snarled through gritted teeth. "At a time like this, she still wants to see Natalie. How dare she! Shameless!"

"Calm down," William said. "The lawyer from the Langley Group, Walter Watson, will arrive in Dithoria soon. I'm going to meet him personally."

He put an arm around Charlotte's shoulders. "You will have to keep acting with Grace. As for Natalie, Marcus is helping us keep her busy for now, so she won't come to see Grace."

"Our daughter is too kind and holds onto debts of gratitude too tightly. Even if she suspects Grace's motives and knows there are many questionable points from the past, she might still pretend not to know and continue listening to Grace."

Charlotte frowned, her eyes flashing with a cold glint. She didn't mind housing Grace for the rest of her life, but every time she saw her, she remembered the days her daughter had been dragged off to draw blood.

They claimed it was genuine love, but in reality, Grace and the evil couple had put on a good-cop-bad-cop act. While abusing Natalie, they gave her tiny favors so she would feel grateful.

The more deprived she felt, the more she cherished that small show of affection.

Human feelings were complicated, so Charlotte could not say for sure that Grace had not loved Natalie at all. Someone who pretended for so many years without any real emotions would have shown cracks at some point.

Grace had kept up her good-grandmother act for 20 years. Outsiders could never fully see what lay between them.

Still, Charlotte and William planned to cut off Natalie's connection to the Langleys. If their daughter could not make that choice on her own, they would act as the bad guys instead.

"I believe Natalie won't do that," William said with certainty. He had a good eye for people. Natalie valued kindness and appreciated favors, but her recent decision to avoid Grace showed she had already made up her mind.

"I'll go meet Walter."

"Alright, I'll come too."

"No, you can't. You have to stay here at the hospital and watch over Grace," William said, holding Charlotte's hand. "Ever since we learned Grace allowed Victor and Diana to draw our daughter's blood, we lost all respect for her. But we still have to keep up appearances.

"My dear, you're a woman, so I'll leave the task of keeping an eye on Grace to you."