Let Me Go, Mr. Hill!

Let me go, Mr. Hill [by Shallow South] Chapter 21
By the time Shaun returned home from his morning run, he was startled to discover the grand feast spread out across the table.

“You…”

“Shaunny, I felt bad that you ate the cat pudding last night so I’m making it up to you with this breakfast spread,” Catherine said thoughtfully as she served him a bowl of oat porridge.

There was a strange expression on his face. “It’s alright. You’ve already been punished last night.”

She stood there with a tight feeling in her throat. “I was truly grossed out after having the cat’s food last night,” she replied slowly a couple of seconds later.

He lowered his gaze to the ground without commenting further.

“Are you going to work? Should I drop you off at the subway station?” he asked before heading to the door once he finished his breakfast.

Catherine was startled but soon shook her head from side to side. “I was fired.” The desolation was audible in her voice.

It was obvious from his forehead that he was frowning. He was told that she was working at her family company. The relationship between her and the Jones family seemed pretty tense. “Alright, you can focus on looking after Fudge at home.”

Pfft, she was not going to spend her time cat sitting.

“I’m planning to look for another job. But don’t worry, I’ll not let it get in the way of looking after Fudge.”

“Whatever,” he muttered and left the house.

…

For the next couple of days, Catherine kept herself occupied looking for a job.

There were plenty of openings for interior design or architecture-related roles. However, in order to disguise her background as the young lady of the Jones family, she had to keep her previous professional experience a secret.

Besides, other big-scale companies were only willing to hire her as an assistant, given her young age.

to work with a small company called

over a hundred square feet. Both their designers took care of everything including designing the plans and giving out advertising leaflets

time doing such work. She felt rather self-conscious in the beginning but soon became more

often than not, people would just walk past as

in sweat and her

it was fall, the

acknowledging her. Just then, a black Lamborghini pulled to a

took her by surprise.

handing out leaflets in the streets…”

said the passenger seat of

I be? Summit?” Her words reeked

lips as if she

kind toward you.” Ethan suddenly got out of the car and slammed the door behind him. “Take a good look at yourself. You’re the young lady of the Jones family. Don’t you

on his handsome face. An intense pain

ashamed? I’m working honestly by handing out

Rebecca said immediately, “Look, we’ve just secured a renovation deal with the developer of Mandarin Garden regarding their luxurious studios. We’re talking about

hot sun for an hour, became more irritated. “Don’t you get tired from being a hypocrite every minute? Can you stay away from me? I don’t

Ethan shouted at her, annoyed. “Rebecca is offering you a hand out of

blind to see what kind of woman she is?

for the way things have turned out but you

compare to hers. Leave, get out of my sight right now.” Catherine lost all control and threw the stash of leaflets at the two of

Ethan stepped in front of Rebecca and

to the ground. The

Ethan was already leading Rebecca toward the car with their fingers

shoulder to smile

excruciating pain.

Ethan to stand up for Rebecca like that, even willing to hurt her because of