Chapter 200 – Back Home to Marry Off Myself Novel

Cormac held her up and rubbed her hair. He comforted her, “Simona, are you feeling sad?”

Simona nodded. “I can tell that he did want it, so I wanted to give it to him. Why did he say no?”

Cormac looked out of the window and saw the mother and her son standing in front of a bus, squinting. He could tell that the boy was quite proud and had his dignity. He could foresee that the boy would become a capable man after growing up.

“Simona, in this world, not all kindness could be treasured or be accepted.” He knew that his daughter had done it out of her kindness. She felt compassionate to the boy because he couldn’t get what he wanted.

However, in the boy’s eyes, his kindness had become a pity.

Hence, the boy wasn’t willing to be pitied.

Cormac gently stroke his daughter’s forehead. “Your mother has been protecting you very well.”

Cormac took his daughter’s hand with one hand and held a plastic of snacks with the other, walking out of the supermarket. A bus was driving away, and the woman and her son who shopped in the supermarket were on it.

When the boy was getting on the bus, he looked back at the girl in her father’s arms. He could tell that the girl was quite naive, also quite cute.

“Hurry up,” his mother urged him.

The boy could only get on.

“Where is Samuel?” Simona looked around. There were cars, buses, and people everywhere. She hadn’t found that behind a window on a bus, a pair of black sparkling eyes were staring at her.

Soon the bus was driven away, and the boy couldn’t see Simona anymore.

“Daddy, what are they doing over there?” Simona pointed at the stall where the sugarcoated haws on a stick were sold. There were a group of onlookers.

She wrapped around Cormac’s neck. “Daddy, I want the sugarcoated haws.”

Cormac looked up in the sky and down at the plastic bag in his hands. He decided to buy them because his daughter wanted them.

“Daddy, it’s so nice of you!” Simona held his face, kissing and rubbing. Even if Cormac were an iceberg, he would be certainly melted.

The sugarcoated haws on a stick in the past only had the haws. Nowadays, all different kinds of fruits were sugarcoated. Simona chose a skewer with all haws. The red haws under the crystal sugar looked quite appealing.

She swallowed. “It must be quite yummy.”

Cormac paid for it. “We should go now.”

The little girl nodded. She had got all she wanted, so she was quite satisfied.

Back to the caravan, the tank was fulfilled with gas. Boyce had already taken Samuel back. Samuel also had a skewer of sugarcoated haws in his hand.

“Why are you guys so slow? We’ve been waiting for you for a while.” Samuel cast a glance at the plastic bag that Cormac took in and then glanced at his younger sister. He understood what had happened. He slightly heaved a sigh.

Boyce gently patted him on his head. “Little one, why are you sighing?”

Samuel curled his lips, eating the sugarcoated haws while sitting on the sofa.

Boyce followed Cormac to the inner compartment. “Armand has resolved Maria Herbert’s matter…”

“Hold on for a second,” Cormac interrupted him. He didn’t want his daughter to overhear such filthy things.

Boyce shushed immediately. “I’ll get off and wait for you.”

“Okay.” Cormac put the little girl on the seat and all snacks on the table. “Stay here with your brother.

Uncle Boyce and I have something to discuss.”

“I know.” Simona was quite sensible right now. She looked so adorable.

Cormac rubbed her hair.

She twisted her head. “My hair is already messy. You’re making it messier. If I’m too ugly, when we find Mommy, she won’t recognize me!”

Cormac chuckled, pinching her cheeks. “Who has the guts to say my daughter is ugly?”

Simona was happy. She grinned ear to ear, exposing her white teeth.

Cormac got off the van. Boyce was standing in front of the door. Seeing that he get off, Boyce took a few steps back to make space for him.

They took a few steps forward, but still quite nearby the van.

“Annabelle Flores is dead.”

Cormac was a bit taken aback. He didn’t expect that she was the one who had died.

At that time, Annabelle wasn’t injured at all, and Maria was tortured a lot. They left them both inside the same room, aiming to let them kill each other. However, he didn’t expect that Annabelle would have died.

He had thought that it might Maria who would die first. Anyway, no matter who died, it meant no different to him. The survived one would have committed the homicide, and would surely be put into jail. If it were a serious case, she would be sentenced to death directly.

“I’ve never found that Maria Herbert…” Boyce had the same guess as Cormac had. He thought that Maria would be dead. Unexpectedly, he received the report that Annabelle died.

It meant how tough Maria was.

After she was injured so much, she managed to kill Annabelle.

“The evidence that she has killed Annabelle Flores is quite firm, and she couldn’t retort at all. Plus, she also hired Terry Holmes’s brother to kill Loredana. She has been sentenced to death, suspended for one year. All the guards now this time are my men. The matter that Sampson Herbert has done last time wouldn’t happen again.”

They deliberately had left Maria and Annabelle alone in the Interrogation Room. There was a surveillance system in the room, which had filmed exactly how Maria managed to kill Annabelle. She had no chance to overturn the case at all. Plus her former case, she was certainly doomed.

Cormac looked quite expressionless as if this woman had nothing to do with him at all.

How she had ended up with was all because of herself. She couldn’t blame anyone else for it.

In the past, he was quite tolerant of her because she had saved his life, so he didn’t mind her scheming thoughts. Due to those matters, he had missed Loredana and it had been so many years.

Didn’t he know that Maria was a scheming woman?

Yes, he did. However, for the sake that she had saved his life, he didn’t do anything. It was she who had fully spent all his patience and gratitude to her.

“Let’s go.”

He strode over to get in the caravan.

Boyce followed him. “Armand is also following us now. I guess he can catch up with us shortly.”

Cormac looked back at him.

Boyce threw his hands up. “He has always been on the way when telling me that he will come here.

Besides, I can’t convince him at all. He’s an adult with healthy legs. I can’t chop them off, can I?”

Right then, Cormac’s cell phone started ringing in his pocket. Cormac pulled it out and saw it was a call from Abbott.

He didn’t insist on blaming Boyce for Armand’s action again. Instead, he swiped to answer the phone.

Abbott was about to report the matter of Maria, Cormac stood in front of the car window and said indifferently, “I’ve known what happened.”

Abbott reported what was going on in the company. Cormac turned on the laptop and read through some documents sent from Abbott. After reading all of them, he signed and sent them back. Then he gave Abbott some orders before ending the call.

It was getting dark outside. They arrived in White City.

Boyce suggested, “Let’s stay at a hotel tonight. We didn’t have enough rest in the car. The kids could be relaxed as well.”

Cormac seemed not to hear what he said. He kept browsing the web pages. Boyce frowned and approached him. “What are you reading?”

Before he finished his question, he had seen the words on the screen. Cormac was reading White City’s information.

The very first one was its history.

This city wasn’t called White City before but called Podon, and it was a county.

An entrepreneur named Nathan White started his business here. He resolved the local unemployment issues. In memory of him, the county name was changed to White City according to his surname.

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