Chapter 4: Darling, welcome to my world.

Katherine looked at the business card pushed in front of her and her eyes narrowed slightly.

The Tatarous family?

The Tatarous family is known as a mysterious family in the alliance of great families, not only because of the mystery but also a family with the most powerful ability in the alliance of great families.

People who come from the Tatarous family, even if they are a sub-line, are also talented people, let alone the person in front of her right now – Laure Tatarous is the current ruler of the Tatarous family.

After a while, Katherine finally answered.

“I need time to think.” She said as she raised her hand to look at the clock: "I'll give you an answer in three hours, now I have to ask for permission to go first."

"Very pleased, I am waiting for you." Laure didn't intend to stop her, watching Katherine's back disappear, finally, he withdrew his gaze and reached for the bodyguard beside him: "Documents".

The bodyguard standing next to him brought another bag of documents, inside there were only 2 pages with very brief information.

Only such?

Laure glanced at the person next to him, the bodyguard saw his eyes and answered honestly.

“Yes, the investigation material is just that.”

"Useless person," He said coldly, then got up and left.

The content is not much, simply the place where Katherine was born and what she grew up with over the years. Other than that, nothing more.

At first glance, it seems that Katherine comes from an ordinary family, but who is Laure? At a glance, he saw that something was not right.

Either his subordinates were useless, or her background was not ordinary at all.

His daughter, more and more interesting to him.

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Katherine left in a hurry, fortunately there was no traffic jam here, so it took only 2 hours by car to arrive. After making sure she'd bought all the things Elwyn wanted, Katherine looked at her watch and thought about the appointment three hours ago that barely had 20 minutes left.

20 minutes is enough for Katherine to make a decision.

"Ting."

Just as Katherine sat down at a roadside snack bar, the phone rang with a text message, opened it to see that the sender was Elwyn.

Elwyn: Honey, how's travel going? Are you back today? Do you need me to pick you up at the airport?

Katherine looked at the text of the message and smiled involuntarily, Elwyn was the one who grew up with her in the orphanage. Compared to Katherine who has a gift for literature, Elwyn just wants to grow up and find a stable job so that she can live a good life, although the intentions are different, it does not affect the close relationship between the two.

Katherine: No need, I think I'll be back later than expected. Gift already bought for you, limited edition.

Elwyn: Honey, I love you to death!!

Elwyn: Oh yeah, I heard you're going to publish a new book. Are you planning to have a book signing session? If so, you must not forget yourself.

Katherine: How many autographs do you want? Wholesale and retail for you here.Elwyn: AAA, so I want 100 signatures. Haha, this is how I'm rich for sure.

A phone screen away from which Katherine could now see Elwyn's smug smile.

But for 100 signatures, isn't this asking her to break your arm?

Katherine was so absorbed in talking to Elwyn that she forgot to give Laure an answer, and when she remembered, a text message just arrived.

"My answer?"

"I agree." Katherine sent a text, then hesitated to send another: “But I have a condition.”

In the hotel.

Laure saw the reply message, his eyes were dyed with laughter, his fingers lightly tapped the table, it was clear that his mood was extremely good right now.

Darling, welcome to my world.

Bodyguards standing from afar, seeing their boss like that, can also guess the outcome.

Miss Katherine has accepted her master's proposal.

Dark twilight.

The sky began to drizzle, the temperature also dropped quickly. Katherine walked on the square, raindrops in the wind touching her skin, bringing every bit of a cold feeling.

She just kept walking forward, her gaze was aimless, and even her steps slowed down, finally stopping under the rush of people.

A silent black Hummer stopped nearby, the driver quickly ran down to open the door, he was holding a huge black umbrella that formed a shadow in the rain.

The car door opened and a man in a black suit stepped out.

His silver hair swayed gently in the wind, he took the umbrella from the driver's hand and quickly walked through the stream of people to the side of a somewhat familiar figure.

Steady footsteps approached each time, Katherine felt the cold wind no longer blowing, startled to regain her senses, but just as she turned around, she collided with Laure's body standing behind.

“What are you doing here?” The calm voice resounded to pull her floating mind.

“I…go for a walk,” Laure replied unconsciously.

"Take a walk?" Laure narrowed his eyes slightly, his eyes seemed to penetrate her lie, he said sternly: "Katherine, you have agreed to marry me, you are already my "half-wife", I do not I hope you will give me a chance to mourn you before the wedding ceremony."

Katherine: “…” Do you really need to be so serious just going for a walk and remembering a bit of the past?

The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and the temperature is also dropping quickly. When she went out Katherine only wore a not too thick clothes, now because the temperature dropped immediately her whole body was cold to the point of shivering. Laure also noticed the change in her, gave her the umbrella in her hand and then before Katherine's surprised expression took off her outer coat, carefully helping her to put it on.

"You…"

"You come back to me tomorrow, it's very cold outside, go back to the hotel first." He didn't give her any chance to refuse but quickly grabbed her small body and headed to the car.

Katherine returned to the hotel now lying in bed tossing and turning, thinking about his thoughtfulness for her at night and thinking about the fact that they had only met no more than three times and yet she agreed marriage proposal to a stranger who is you.

Katherine felt herself going crazy.

Whether it was for revenge or any other reason, her marrying a stranger she had only met three times was insane, so far every step she took was carefully calculated. but now…

Katherine didn't know when she fell asleep, but when she woke up, Laure was waiting for her downstairs in the hotel lobby. On the flight back, Katherine didn't ask or explain anything, now she needs quiet time to think and sort out what's next.

Getting off the plane, Laure wanted to take her home, but Katherine refused to say that there was something to deal with, then took a car and hurried away.

She didn't lie but really had an important thing, originally this morning she had an appointment with the editor to discuss the publication of a new book, but because of yesterday's incident, she delayed the flight to this morning. Even the luggage was not brought home, but directly brought to the meeting point, when she arrived, she saw her editor waiting there.

"Magaly, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting for so long." Katherine is extremely skillful in social affairs, she gently apologized to Magaly and took out a prepared gift to give her: “I have an emergency so I have to delay my flight, this is the gift I prepared for Magaly, I hope you like it."

Magaly has been in contact with Katherine for a long time, so she is not angry because of the wait, she gently smiled and accepted the gift from Katherine's hand: "It's okay, I know you've been busy lately, but rarely go here and there to relax, so it's okay to come back a little late."

"How? Are you satisfied with this tour?”

Katherine originally wanted to answer "normal", but thinking of the man who suddenly appeared who was about to become her husband in the future, she immediately changed: "There are more surprises than I thought, beautiful ancient city and people are even more beautiful."

Magaly laughed when she heard that, it was rare to find Katherine so amusing.

“Do you need to rest a bit first?”

"It's okay, I have work to do soon, so the new book publishing and autographing will be finished soon."

Magaly was a little surprised but still took out the documents she had prepared in advance.

“All the content is almost the same as before, I have a few more issues with the book signing you can check it out. If there is something we want to change, we will discuss it again.”

“When is the expected publication date?” Katherine looked at the contract and asked Magaly.

“Actually, about a month.” Magaly sipped her coffee and answered her.

“So have you set a date for the autograph session yet?”

"I want to wait for you to come back and then determine the date, when will you be able to arrange it?"

“If not, I will help you arrange it, when you choose, you can tell me the time. I will save time for that day.”

“Okay, just decide. I just got back and had to come here right away, anyway, I'll be on the way so I can take you home, okay?"

"Thanks Magaly, then I have to bother you."

This time is the most likely time to get stuck in traffic, if you call a car, you also have to wait for a while, so before Magaly's proposal, of course, Katherine did not refuse but immediately agreed.

She didn't sleep last night, and she took an early flight this morning, so now she really has no energy left.