Craving 153

 

Chapter153 

Given Ellsworth’s personality, if he agreed to marry Harriet, he 

shouldn’t be treating her like this. He would have handled 

everything flawlessly. 

After all, Ellsworth was the smartest person she knew. 

As Kathie analyzed him, Ellsworth just looked at her, cigarette between his fingers. 

She might seem carefree most of the time, but her questions 

were sharp. 

Staring at Kathie for a while, Ellsworth suddenly said, “Keeping 

things proper at home while playing around outside-what kind 

of person do you take me for?” 

Kathie: “Don’t change the subject. Answer my question.” 

Outside the door, Harriet didn’t knock or come in; she just stood 

there silently. 

She hadn’t meant to eavesdrop-it was just an accident, just like 

that time she overheard his conversation with Johnathan. Both 

were accidents. 

Retracting her gaze and turning to leave, Harriet was just about to go when the servant’s voice suddenly came from behind: 

“Mrs. Harriet Townsend, why are you standing here?” 

Hearing the voice, Harriet quickly turned around and greeted 

warmly, “Laney.” 

At the sound of Harriet calling Laney, the conversation between 

the siblings inside the room came to an abrupt halt. 

Seeing this, Kathie hurried over to open the half-closed door 

and looked at Harriet, saying, “Hara, are you done talking with 

Grandpa?” 

In response to Kathie’s question, Harriet stood at the bedroom 

door, smiled, and said, “Yes.” Then added, “I just came up to get 

something.” 

Kathie: “Come in, my brother’s awake. You didn’t disturb him.” 

“Okay.” Hearing Kathie’s words, Harriet replied and then entered 

the room. 

By the floor-to-ceiling window, Ellsworth heard Harriet’s 

movements and turned to look toward the door. 

Their eyes met. Seeing Harriet’s gaze fall on the cigarette in his 

hand, Ellsworth snapped back to reality, quickly walked over to the coffee table, bent down, and stubbed out the half-smoked 

cigarette in the ashtray. 

Kathie watched Ellsworth put out his cigarette and was full of 

disdain, sneering, “Ellsworth, you really have double standards. 

Hara’s a woman, I’m a woman too. When I’m here, you smoke 

without a care, but as soon as Hara comes in, you put it out.” 

“Fine, fine, Hara’s your real wife, I’m just picked up off the 

street. I have nothing to do with you at all.” 

“I’m leaving, I’m leaving. You two are family.” 

With a sarcastic tone, Kathie rolled her eyes at Ellsworth, 

pushed him aside, and left their bedroom, closing the door 

behind her as she went. 

As soon as Kathie left, the room fell silent. 

Exceptionally quiet. 

Even the faint smell of smoke was being filtered out by the air 

purifier. 

Ellsworth put both hands back in his pockets, his expression 

calm and emotionless. 

However, the whip marks on his face were still very visible, as 

were the ones at his collar. 

Harriet glanced at him and said gently, “There’s something at the company, I have to go work overtime. By the way, Dr. Fowler 

will come by this afternoon to give you an injection, so make 

sure to rest.” 

When Harriet said she had to work overtime, Ellsworth gave her 

a nonchalant look and said carelessly, “Reginald really doesn’t 

hesitate to order you around.” 

Harriet: “I’m the project manager, so of course I’m a bit busy.” 

Back when she was at the Townsend Group, she was even 

busier than now, working overtime day and night. 

Harriet was always reasonable and polite, so Ellsworth didn’t 

say anything more. He just walked over to the desk and turned 

on his computer. 

In fact, he didn’t really want Harriet to work overtime. He wished 

she could have more time and energy for her own life. 

Seeing that he had nothing more to say, Harriet packed up, grabbed her car keys and phone, and left the Townsend 

mansion. 

Just now, Reginald had called her, and Jonas had called too. Jonas said that after Rushtar Group was rejected by Galaxy Innovations, Kelsey had been in contact with Ventura Tech, 

wanting to collaborate on their home robotics project. 

This meant their projects would be in direct competition. 

Moreover, Kelsey made it clear that if Rushtar Group joined 

Ventura Tech’s home robotics project, they had to outdo Galaxy 

Innovations, making sure their products couldn’t even make it 

to market, with no advantages to speak of. 

Harriet didn’t mention these work details to Ellsworth. 

After all, who Kelsey wanted to work with was her own 

business. 

Besides, given their relationship, Ellsworth probably already 

knew about it. 

But if Kelsey wanted to use Ventura Tech to compete with 

Galaxy Innovations, Galaxy Innovations would definitely rise to 

the challenge. 

With both hands on the steering wheel, Harriet’s mind was filled 

with work matters. 

As for the conversation between Kathie and Ellsworth in the 

bedroom earlier, Harriet didn’t dwell on it, nor was she 

particularly interested in the answer.