Catherine's POV
I knew my life plummeted further as I saw few people take pictures and videos of how I was led out by the securities.
But even in those videos I want to be seen leaving without a shame.
"She is now a forsaken heiress," someone murmured behind me and I didn't bother to turn around to see who it was. It doesn't even matter.
I called for a car and waited close to the entrance even as people gossiped around me— when a familiar car pulled up and parked some distance away.
Dane came out of the driver's side of the car and walked around to open the door to the passenger seat for another person. Red sleek heels slid out of the car and I rolled my eyes as he held her hand to help her out.
"The reputable heiress has arrived!" Those gossiping said in excitement as Anna climbed out of the car.
Dane made a show of kissing her on the cheek and I almost gagged.
I looked away and prayed my car arrived quickly to save me from the unsolicited public display of affection from the two of them.
"Oh, it's Catherine. I didn't see you there." Anna said with a sweet smile towards me and walked in my direction.
"Bitch can you just get the fuck out of my face?!"
I pretended not to hear her and that seems to have gotten to those people that were looking with their cameras rolling.
"No wonder she was sent out by her father, she has such a horrible personality!"
I walked away a short distance and didn't want to keep seeing their faces but Anna followed beside me.
"If you want I can speak to Dad for you. He didn't mean to send you away the other day". She said suddenly and I could not stop the look of disgust on my face.
What the hell is she spouting? Wasn't she the one that showed me where my things were outside in the dirt?
"Catherine". Dane's voice called me.
"Oh, she is putting up a show for her husband".
"Yes?" I turned to him unbothered.
If this had happened a few weeks ago I would have been sad and devastated but not anymore. The face I had fallen in love with in the past now irritates me.
How did I ever fall in love with him? Something must have been wrong with me.
"Your sister is trying to talk to you, why are you ignoring her?" He asked and I chuckled. I never knew someone can be so brazen, what are these people?
Fools?
"Dane, leave her alone. She probably hates me and blames me for everything that happened. And I accept it, I'm to be blamed". She said with a sad face and turned to him.
"Bitch please!"
He gently patted her head and she hugged him.
I was glad when the uber I called for arrived, I can finally leave the best couple of the century to their audiences.
They were both surprised that I didn't bat an eye at them and simply left.
Anna looked like she wanted to slaughter me to death but I was already in the car and on my way home.
Gerald was outside our home when I got back.
He looked at the uber that dropped me off and back at me like I had gone crazy.
"Your face is all over the internet. It seems you had went to stir up trouble". He said with one hand in his pocket.
"I was thrown out by the securities, that definitely wasn't in my plan". I said, a little annoyed that his tone had a trace of accusation in it.
"You should have let the driver take you there, it could have gotten a little dangerous". He continued and frowned.
I didn't have a retort to that and only went quiet.
He wasn't wrong in that aspect because I held back in my reason for going there all by myself.
***
Dinner was served and Gerald didn't touch his food but was looking silently at me.
"Do you have anything planned for tomorrow?" He asked after a while and my curiosity awakened.
"No, I'm now jobless. So I have all the time in the world". I replied and he nodded.
"We will attend an event together tomorrow. Prepare yourself". He said curtly and I nodded in understanding.
Any event is welcomed by me, I need to clear my name as soon as possible.
But that means we would appear in public together as a couple?
After dinner, I lay in bed and prepare to scroll through the internet.
Gerald had mentioned that my face had been all over the internet. I breathed in to brace myself before I opened the internet.
I was expecting to see everywhere full of pictures and videos of how I was thrown out but to my surprise nothing was up.
The only things on the internet are the usual celebrity dramas and news. Nothing about Catherine McLane.
And talking about that, I need to change my name from McLane.
I no longer belong to that family, if I manage to make a name for myself or dwindle to the worst state I would still prefer not to relate to them.
My brows pulled together as I remember that there were no videos like Gerald said.
I decided to call him, it's too late to go to his room.
The phone rang a couple of times without him picking up.
"Let me just go to him, what could probably happen?"
I knocked on his door a few times until he answered.
"Who is it?" He asked grumpily.
"Catherine". I said simply.
"Come in". He called out.
I walked inside the room, it was dimly lit and I was wondering where he was until I saw him standing close to the bathroom door with a towel in hand and another one around his waist.
My eyes travelled from his face to his wide shoulders and to the defined lines of his stomach down to the towels that hung too low on his waist.
"Yeah?" He asked and I shook my head to snap myself back to reality.
"I…I…Uhm.."
Words failed me and my face was heating up.
"Goodnight". I said in a hurry and rushed back out.
"Come back here!".