Chapter 19: I Don’t Need Your Charity
Then Keith touched Cathryn's stiff shoulder with his hand and softly said, "You go in first."
"What did I do wrong?" Cathryn shouted at Jordan. She was devastated, and tears started trickling down her cheeks.
Jordan said she deserved it, but what did she do wrong? He was supposed to give her a reason!
"I did everything that you asked me. I married you in secret without telling my parents... I gave you the divorce when you asked. What more do you want from me?" Cathryn was so disturbed by his words that all she could do was cry. Her vision was too blurred to see Jordan's face clearly.
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed that my dear husband would kneel down on one knee to propose to another woman while still being married to me! What the hell did I do wrong? You did all you could to make me fall in love with you, and then you abandoned me! Then you ask me to dance at your engagement party. Did you really think that I would do it? I would have to be crazy even to consider such a thing."
Cathryn's tears had dried up, and it was the first argument between Jordan and her since the divorce. She suffered a significant defeat. She felt that she had run out of strength and almost fell down. Fortunately, Keith kept holding her in his arms to support her.
Her brain was blank, and she did not see Keith's nervous expression and the faint sorrow in his dark eyes. Of course, she did not see Jordan's whole body shaking and his lips trembling. The more he tried to control it, the worse it seemed to get. He clenched his hands and balled into fists out of anger like he was getting ready to lash out at someone.
"How are you able to pay your bills? You haven't been working?" Jordan said, withdrawing his hand without any trace.
"I don't need your charity!" Cathryn shouted.
"You don't need it?" Jordan lowered his head, glancing at the two identical keys in their hands. He sneered and said, "Then you and your adulterer get out of my house right now!"
The ownership of the house was in Jordan's name. Jordan did not mention that he would repossess their home when they divorced, so Cathryn still kept living there. Now he suddenly tells her that he is going to reclaim the house. Why? Cathryn was stunned.
"Well," said Keith. Hearing Keith's words, Cathryn hastily turned around to look at Keith, he gave her an appealing smile. "The house is too small and crowded. We don't need to live here anymore." Keith went on. Then, Keith said to Jordan in a tone of consultation, "Could you please give us some time to pack our belongings, Mr. Riggs? The house will be returned to you as soon as the moving company comes and gets our things."
Jordan had already looked Keith up and down. His figure was tall and straight. He was an elegantly dressed man. Yet, he could not conceal the noble and extraordinary temperament emanating from his body. Jordan concluded that Cathryn could only afford to pay the liquidated damages because of him.
Although the two of them looked very close, he could tell that they were not lovers. He wondered what the relationship between this man and Cathryn was?
Hearing Keith's words, "But... Where are we going to live?"
Opening the door and pulling Cathryn in, Keith replied, "My home."
Soon after Keith made a call to the moving company, the van and the workers quickly came over and started moving things out. Cathryn was in a panic and a state of chaos. She directed the workers to where she kept her suitcases.
This house was not significant but is filled with a whole year's memories of Cathryn and Jordan. When Cathryn watched the things, which were bought and placed in her home by her and Jordan, being removed one by one, she still felt somewhat overwhelmed with sadness.
"It was Jordan who destroyed all this, wasn't it? Why should she be sad?" Cathryn finally came to her senses.
The efficiency of the moving company was very accurate. Soon their luggage was all packed, and the workers began to move the boxes downstairs. The living room was quickly empty, leaving only the large pieces of furniture that Jordan had bought. The cozy small home was no longer cozy; it was now a cold house.
Standing in the living room, Cathryn looked around and could not help herself. A tear started to roll down her cheek.
"Don't you want to leave here?" Standing in front of her, Keith touched her hair tenderly and said, "If you like this house, can I repurchase it for you?"
Knowing that Keith was comforting her, Cathryn gave him a bright smile, shook her head, and said, "Let's go."
They stepped outside. Cathryn took the key from Keith's hand and carefully looked at it. She placed it in the palm of Jordan's hand. She started walking towards the car with Keith without saying a word to Jordan. Jordan looked at the empty house, feeling a chill invade his body. He wanted to get even with her. Why did he think that she had taken revenge on him?
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Cathryn felt like she was falling apart. She was becoming emotionally disturbed and unable to think calmly. She was having a hard time dealing with the unpleasant situation she had just endured. Keith helped her fasten the seat belt. The tears quickly filled her eyes and then ran down her cheeks. Keith immediately stopped fastening his seatbelt and took out a tissue, and put it in Cathryn's hand.
Keith started the car. Cathryn's tiny sobs and her sentimental longing for the house disappeared in the sound of the wheels rubbing against the ground.
Following the moving company's van closely, Keith's car drove from the North District of Douglas City to the Southern District. Douglas City was an economically developed city with a precise geographic division of the city.
The North District was the living district inhabited by local residents of Douglas City, residential buildings were everywhere, and it was the most densely populated area. The Southern District was called the rich people's region. Proximity to the sea, sea-view apartments, and Villas were magnificent. This was the living district of the rich in Douglas City.