The CEO's Wife Is a Medical Master

Chapter 204: A Sour Heart

Nathaniel Nathan could ignore his mother’s opinion, but he didn’t want Vera Xavier to have to walk on eggshells around her every day after she joined the family. He wouldn’t let her suffer the slightest grievance from anyone.

Master Nathan pointed at him. "I’ve finally figured you out, you rascal. You’re the type to truly spoil your wife. Don’t rush things with your mother. We’ll tell her when the time is right. After all, Vera is still young and in school."

Nathaniel Nathan nodded, then decided to pass the buck directly to Master Nathan. "Then I’ll leave this to you."

Master Nathan laughed and chided, "You little scoundrel! All you ever do is scheme against your own grandfather!"

When Vera Xavier returned to the Preston family home, Zachary Preston was out of town on business. Cara Preston sat there crying as if she had suffered some terrible injustice, while Rona Langdon tried to soothe her. "There, there. This is all Vera Xavier’s fault. Why did she have to steal the spotlight? She has no sense of propriety whatsoever!"

Cara Preston tugged on Rona Langdon’s sleeve and said, "I don’t mind being humiliated, but I can’t stand that I dragged you down with me, Mom. No one could have possibly imagined that painting was a fake!"

At the mention of this, a vicious look crossed Rona Langdon’s face. "It’s all the fault of those two old bastards! They’re always going on about the pile of treasures they have stored upstairs, but who knew they’d put a fake painting there. The way I see it, they did it on purpose! They knew I was going to get a painting, so they intentionally put a fake there to set me up!"

She had always held a strong grudge against the grandparents. Awed by the grandmother’s stern demeanor, she didn’t dare speak up in their presence, but she hated the two elders to the bone behind their backs.

Cara Preston hated the grandparents just as much. She was still fuming about how they had defended Vera Xavier last time—and to top it all off, it had caused her to catch a cold. She just wished the two old bastards would hurry up and die!

So she began to egg on Rona Langdon. "They’re just shameless old fools, Mom. When they get so old they can’t even walk, let’s just ignore them. It’d be best if they starved or got sick and died!"

These words were exactly what Rona Langdon was thinking. "People like them, expecting me to care for them in their old age? Not a chance!"

Vera Xavier remembered her grandparents’ miserable final years in her past life, and her hands clenched into fists. ’I will never let what happened in my past life happen again!’

She shoved the door open, startling Rona Langdon and Cara Preston. The two of them stared at her as if they’d seen a ghost. What Vera didn’t know was that before they had started plotting against the grandparents, they had been endlessly cursing her.

In their minds, even if Vera Xavier had managed to steal the show earlier, their meticulous plan should have ensured her utter ruin tonight. For her to return completely unscathed was far beyond their expectations.

Rona Langdon was generally more blunt than Cara Preston, so she blurted out instinctively, "Vera Xavier, you little slut! Why are you back?"

Vera Xavier looked at Rona Langdon’s face and narrowed her eyes slightly. "You seem surprised to see me back, Mother?"

Rona Langdon froze for a second. Vera Xavier pressed on, "Or perhaps... you think I shouldn’t have come back at all tonight, Mother?"

Rona Langdon looked Vera Xavier up and down. Her clothes were neat, her expression calm and composed—she didn’t look at all like someone who had just gone through... *that*. Rona snorted. "On your way back, did anything...?"

"What Mom means," Cara Preston cut in, interrupting Rona Langdon, "is that you finally had a chance to suck up to Master Nathan. You should have stayed with the Nathan family. Why would you want to come back? After all, you’ve always been so shameless."