Chapter 656 Bad News
Hathaway felt the urge to stop Kathleen when she saw the angry look on Kathleen’s face. “Why are you all worked up at such an early hour? Who made you angry?” Hathaway asked.
“There’s no one in this orchestra which has the guts to make me angry apart from that beloved student of yours,” Kathleen hissed through gritted teeth. Hathaway frowned at this. “Did you try to provoke her again?” she asked.
“What do you mean when you say that? You’re assuming that it’s my fault before asking me about what happened. Sometimes, I really suspect that you’re not my mother!” Kathleen was furious, but she also felt sorry for herself—she unleashed all these emotions on Hathaway.
Hathaway’s expression turned sour at this point, but she controlled her temper and questioned her daughter. “Well, what did you guys argue about this time?” Kathleen explained the situation in the restaurant earlier, and she added some of her own details to make the story juicier.
“She just happened to have a good fiancé and a good brother. So what’s there to be proud of? If she’s that great, she wouldn’t need to rely on others at all,” Kathleen muttered. Hathaway’s expression turned utterly dark after hearing Kathleen’s words because she felt Tessa hadn’t done anything wrong.
“That’s enough. I don’t think Tessa did anything wrong here. You, on the other hand, were the one who interrupted when Tessa’s brother was talking. Furthermore, Tessa doesn’t have ill intentions like you think she does. So, why do you have to keep attacking and belittling her?” Hathaway asked.
Kathleen lost her temper when she heard how protective Hathaway was of Tessa. “You sure are a great mother, huh? You don’t seem to care even when your daughter is being bullied, and you’re even protecting that b*tch, Tessa, the way everyone else is!” she cried.
“Calm down, Kathleen,” Hathaway called after her.
“I can’t calm down!” Kathleen ran off after finishing her words. No matter how much Hathaway called for her to stop, Kathleen simply refused to slow her footsteps down. Later that day, when Kathleen followed the rest of Group One over to the theater, she still wore the same dark expression on her face. She looked as if someone had slaughtered her entire family. Everyone was nervous and eager to practice for the show after they arrived at the theater. However, Kathleen was like a ticking time bomb—she burst out in anger whenever she noticed something that didn’t fit her preferences. It didn’t even matter whether the person had made a genuine mistake—Kathleen refused to keep her temper under control.
Things got heated up soon. Kathleen had been walking when she nearly tripped and fell because of an instrument casing on the ground. The instrument casing belonged to the assistant concertmaster in Group One, and it was a violin casing. At that moment, Kathleen concluded that the assistant concertmaster had been trying to harm her, so she began to curse at her.
“You placed this box here because you wanted me to fall, right? Do you think you can turn into another Tessa, and do you think you can replace me? That’s impossible!” Kathleen hissed.
“You’re exaggerating things and making them seem bad. I never had such intentions at all,” the assistant concertmaster spoke frantically in her defense.
“Hmph. Deep down, you know the answer to how much you care,” Kathleen sneered at the assistant concertmaster. The rest of the members had their brows knitted, but they were reluctant to voice out. This incident spread over to Group Two, and Tessa heard about it but didn’t allow it to bother her.
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Meanwhile, at a hotel in Exelter, Nicholas waited for nearly one day without hearing any news. He couldn’t help but feel rather anxious as he wouldn’t be able to make it in time for his flight if he couldn’t find the man. Tony had returned to the hotel twice, both with important information. Soon, he came back a third time.
“I found a secret code that Cole left in the mountains, but someone had been trying to misdirect us, so we wasted a lot of time there. I believe that our enemies were the ones doing this. They must have had their eyes on us all along,” Tony reported.
Nicholas squinted and remained deep in thought for a long while after hearing what Tony said. He previously suspected that there was a spy in their team, and he figured that this spy could be the one providing information to the other party. Finally, after he contemplated the matter for a moment, he parted his lips to speak in an exceptionally cold tone. “I want you to bring only the core members of our team for this mission. For now, we’ll focus on finding Cole, and we can think about the rest once we’ve done that.”
Tony nodded and turned to leave after he received his orders. This time, he left for a long while and only returned after the skies turned dark. Unfortunately, he returned with some bad news.
