Demon CEO's Hidden Love: Mr Grayson Stole Me From My Abusive Husband-Chapter 210: With You By My Side

Break off the engagement? Matthew fully turned, his mind wide alert after hearing her decision.

"Mallory what the hell do you mean break off the engagement?"

Standing her ground she responded calmly. "We both made an agreement to help each other out, you’d get the money you needed to return to the Grayson family. And I could get away from being married off. However," her tone sharpened.

"I wanted to get away from all the toxicity of my family, and not become a victim of the nasty competition your family has going on. I just want a peaceful life, Matthew." She voiced out her thoughts, leaving Matthew stunned that she could even have these ideas to begin with.

He pinched his temples, "Look, you’re not being fair to me. You knew I was part of the illegitimate side of the family before you agreed to this arrangement. If you weren’t engaged to me, by now you would’ve been at dinner with some old geezer-"

She sharply interjected, "I know my standing in this arrangement, but I hope you know yours too. Thane didn’t lift a finger after you caused so much trouble, and your family was willing to turn their back on you. As much as I needed you, you needed me too."

"Then why are you being so difficult? Because I came back here drunk? Then fine, I’ll sleep on the street next time and be out of your sight!" He argued, failing to trace her sudden anger.

Mallory couldn’t not help but scoff with every word that came out of Matthew’s mouth. Folding her arms she replied, "I only agreed to this because I thought you would be at least half as sensible as your brother."

Matthew’s lip twitched, as yet another person had compared him to Thane. The bastard brother who blocked his number and abandoned him completely when he needed him the most.

He looked at Mallory and laughed, "You couldn’t get my brother so you tried pawing at me? Is that what all this is about?" He took a step closer, bridging the gap between them.

Mallory features swelled into a deep frown as he got even closer, she backed away until her back was against her dresser. "Matthew-" her warning was drowned out by Matthew’s interjection.

His tone livid, he told her, "I am not my brother, I will never be like him, so don’t go chasing after his shadow. You and me are in this deal to benefit each other."

He pinched chin and lifted it abruptly, forcing their gaze to meet. "Whatever or whoever I do in my personal life is none of your fucking business, I need a wife, and you need an escape. That’s all this relationship is and all it ever will be." He scolded with a deep scowl on his face.

Content with his message he released her chin and turned to leave, but Mallory reached for his hand and grabbed his wrist.

"Relationship?" She laughed, her voice emotionless and somewhat cynical. Standing in front of him she put in an extra word, "If you can’t understand what it means to treat a fellow person with respect, then their will be no relationship between us."

Hitting the nail on the head she told him, "As long as we’re together, as long as I am in your life Matthew, you can’t be the same person you were. And the same goes for me, I won’t be the person who always gets trampled on, not when I have you to defend me."

She retracted her hand and pointed at him, "And as for you, you won’t be the worthless son of the Grayson family anymore, not when you have me. Matthew, with me in my corner no one is ever going to look down on you."

Hearing those words he frowned. "What the hell do you mean?" He had figured she was just going to cast him aside because she figured out exactly how he was.

Just like everyone else. But Mallory’s eyes had a fire in them as she spoke.

In clearer words she said something that no one had ever told him. "That’s why I’ve decided to help you fight for the Grayson inheritance and become the next heir of the family."

"What? That wench actually showed up to the hospital?!" Serena couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She had just come back from her meeting with Ethan, only to hear that Julian nearly found out about his connection to Brooke.

Her brother corked open a bottle of Luther’s wine stash which he had been oh so generously taking care of. "That isn’t the main issue on ground, he’s asked to have dinner with her and her husband. What do we do?"

To Scott, fate had thrown him the worse hand. It was already bad enough that he was deceiving Julian, but if Brooke found out the truth, he knew her husband Thane would not take things lightly. He shuddered at the thought of having the Grayson family cracking down on him.

Serena pinched her chin, "But they’re divorced, and even so, how did he know Brooke was married to Ethan?"

Scott reached for a glass but suspended his hand in his air at her response. "Brooke was married to Ethan Halton?!" From what Serena told him, Ethan was infatuated with Cassie and the father of her child.

At first he thought his sister was impressive to have two daughters who were able to trap two rich men. But now...

His sister sighed, "That wench was undeserving of Ethan, she got what she deserved when she decided to let him go. Now look at her, broke and working on a low budget movie. She’d have to grovel and beg before I consider taking her back."

Broke?

"What are you talking about? When was the last time you met your daughter?" He asked.

Throwing a hiss she responded, "I met her the other day, when she tricked me into giving her copies of our employees contracts. The wretched thing had cheap clothes on, she was no different from a homeless person. I can’t show that stain to Julian," she frowned, "Why was I cursed with such a daughter?!"

The more Serena spoke the more her brother was baffled. Did his sister not really know? That the daughter she was cursing out was actually the daughter-in-law of the Grayson family?!