Chapter 89: Dog that Bites

Seeing Matthew, Maria almost rushed over, stretching her arms to embrace him.

Matthew stepped aside and dodged. As she was running so fast, Maria couldn’t stop even after she
had missed the target. She couldn’t help staggering forward, her ankle twisting.

“Ouch...” she exclaimed. Her legs weakened, falling on the ground.

Abbott stood aside. He had chance to hold her up but he didn’t reach out.

Before she became the family member of the Herbert family, she even flattered Abbott sometimes.
After all, he was a man who Matthew trusted very much, so she was willing to put a little effort on
Abbott.

However, since she returned to the Herbert family and became their daughter, she had been arrogant
and put on the air whenever she met Abbott again.

Hence, Abbott became quite unhappy. He didn’t like her as he used to.

Now Maria was a girl from a rich family.

Abbott was just an assistant. So they were not from the same world.

Maria fell on the ground, her knees skinned, her carefully-made hair messed. She looked quite
embarrassed.

Raising her head, she looked at Matthew. “Matthew...”

She could not accept the coldness and disregard from him.

He used to treat her lovingly.



His current attitude brought her sense of frustration as if she had fallen down from the heaven to the
hell.

She couldn’t accept it at all.

Trembling, she looked at the man standing in front of her. “Matthew...”

Tears welled up in her tears. Her tone was full of grievance and ingratiation.

Matthew walked to her, squatting down. He reached to brush away the messy hair that covered her
cheeks.

Looking at her face carefully, Matthew seemingly to see her true color through her features.

“Matthew...”

“Stop calling me,” he interrupted Maria.

Maria was startled, still couldn’t accept the fact.

“How many things have you hidden from me?” he asked in an extremely low voice, as if he was
suppressing something in his heart.

Things flashed through Maria’s mind, as if all movie scenes were replaying. She was thinking about the
hidden meaning of Matthew’s question.

Suddenly her pupils shrank sharply. It seemed that he had heard her conversation with Dolores.

“Nothing,” she denied.

“Nothing?” Matthew sneered.



She used to save him once so he trusted her. Although he found her charades before, he didn’t look
into them. He was not willing to get even with her.

After all, he treasured their relationship.

However, she always kept refreshing his perception of herself.

She deceived him by self-acted and self-directed scripts. Even it was she who planned the car accident
that happened to Dolores back then.

He had underestimated Maria in the past. He had just thought she was playing some small tricks. Much
to his surprise, it turned out that she was so vicious.

“I didn’t ... I didn’t set up Dolores Flores. She, she made it up.” Maria’s face was wet by tears. Reaching
out, she wanted to grab Matthew’s arm. “Matthew, you got to believe me.

He just stared at her face for a few second, his cold lips forming into a straight line. Without saying
anything, he pried open her hand.

Maria was unwilling to let go, but Matthew’s strength was so strong. Unable to resist, her hand was
removed easily.

“Matthew.” Maria hugged his legs. “I really didn’t do it. Believe me. If I was wrong, it was because I love
you so much. Is it wrong to love you?”

“Heh heh.”

Matthew sneered, as if he was mocking at himself. He whispered softly to answer, “You are not wrong.
I was wrong. It’s my fault.”

He shouldn’t have mistaken responsibility as love.



“No. It’s not like that.” Maria shook her head desperately. “It’s neither your fault nor mine. It’s all her
fault.”

Turning around, she pointed at Dolores, who was standing on the steps. “It’s all because of her. She’s
just a bitch!”

“You bitch...”

Theresa was about to retort but stopped by Dolores. It was unnecessary to get a verbal fighting with
Maria.

Dolores knew what Maria feared the most was losing Matthew.

In return, she should poke Maria’s sore spot, which was Matthew.

In her high-heels, Dolores walked down the steps, walking towards Matthews step by step. Raising her
hand, she tossed her hair behind a ear, her eyes seductive. Then she put her hand on Matthew’s
shoulder, calling him in a soft and gentle tone, “Honey.”

Dolores sickened herself. She really couldn’t get used to this way of addressing him.

Anyway, their divorce certificate was not issued, so she still could address him in this way.

Her main purpose was to piss Maria.

Maria was face blushed because of anger, looking like a well-cooked shrimp.

Matthew looked down slightly at Dolores’ arm on his shoulder. It was slender with fair skin. She stood
so close to him that he could even see the hair on her arm clearly.

For the first time, Dolores took the initiative to approach him.



And she called him in such an intimate way.

He couldn’t help feeling delighted.

He didn’t mind Dolores calling him in such a way.

He knew that she had done it on purpose, but didn’t pushed her away.

He just let her lean on himself.

“Stop flattering yourself!” Maria was totally irritated because Dolores called him “honey”.

She got up from the ground and waved her fists, aiming to punch Dolores. “You bitch! Don’t touch
Matthew!”

Just before her fist landed, Matthew grabbed her wrist.

Meeting his eyes, Maria was startled by the coldness in his eyes.

She had never seen such coldness in Matthew’s eyes before.

“I...”

“Abbott.” Matthew shook off her hand.

Abbott understood. He stepped forward and pulled her away.

How could Maria be willing to let Abbott pull her away while watching Dolores and Matthew were so
intimate?

“Abbott, let go of me!” Maria didn’t care about anything else. All she wanted was to escape from
Abbott’s grip and pull Dolores away.



She definitely wouldn’t let Dolores to touch Matthew.

Matthew belonged to her only.

She didn’t allow anyone else to touch him.

“Ms. Herbert, mind your dignity, please.” Abbott frowned.

“Abbott Baron, who do you think you are? How dare you mind my business?” she growled.

Matthew was not in the mood to tangle with her. He just ordered Abbott in a light tone, “I’m leaving it to
you.” Then he took Dolores away.

“Matthew...” Seeing that Matthew was leaving, Maria completely panicked.

She started hitting and kicking Abbott. “Let go of me. Now! Let go!”

Still gripping her tightly, Abbott stood still. “Ms. Herbert, calm down please. Mr. Nelson has already
called off the engagement with you...”

“You know nothing about the love between Matthew and me. Even if our engagement was canceled, he
still loves me.”

Abbott found she was pretty hilarious.

She said Matthew loved her.

Although he was an outsider, Abbott still couldn’t tell that Matthew had never loved her all through the
years.



All Matthew had to her was the responsibility for that night and the gratitude for her saving his life in his
childhood.

Love?

Bullshit.

“You psycho.”

“You are the lunatic. You are a dog, a barking watchdog raised by Matthew!”

Abbott’s face fell. He sneered. “That’s right. I’m not so noble as you are, the daughter from the Herbert
family!”

Abbott extremely emphasized her identity.

He couldn’t understand why a person could change her personality due to the change of her identity.

Now he realized that she was supposed to be such a person originally. She just had hidden her true
color in the past.

Now she exposed her nature.

It proved the old saying ... “a leopard cannot change its spots.”

Seeing that Matthew pulled Dolores into the car, Abbott let go of Maria.

He cast her a cold glance.

“Mr. Nelson will never like such a woman like you.”



Maria was so furious that she couldn’t help shaking. Seeing Abbott leaving, she rushed to him and bit
his hand.

Abbott groaned because of the pain.

It hurt a lot.

Lifting up his foot, he kicked the crazy woman away. “You are a dog that bites,” he said with disdain.

Checking his hand back that was almost bitten to bleed, Abbott spat on the woman who fell down the
ground because of his kick.

Then he turned around and left.

Lying face down on the ground, Maria clenched her hands into fists. She swore that she would revenge
for all the humiliation she had received today.

“Let go of me.” Being pulled away, Dolores panicked. She just wanted to provoke Maria on purpose just
now.

Matthew didn’t response, and he just kept forcing her into the car.

Dolores kept struggling.

Matthew grabbed her restless hands. “Be quiet.”

Dolores wriggled, trying to get rid of his grip. “Where are you taking me to?”


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