Chapter 338: Chapter 338: A Fruitless Endeavor
Seeing his granddaughter being rendered speechless, Old Master Houston could only speak up again.
"Your wedding with Gregory is imminent, why did you still do such a thing?"
"Grandpa, I didn’t do it on purpose. Nathan Jacobs forced me, I had no choice."
Holly Houston naturally understood that her grandfather was still protecting her.
So, she seized this opportunity to push all the blame onto Nathan Jacobs.
As for what consequences this might bring Nathan Jacobs?
Sorry, that’s not something she needed to consider.
Anyway, Nathan’s reputation was already so bad, a little worse wouldn’t make a difference.
To make her words seem more convincing, Holly’s eyes even reddened, as if tears were about to fall from her grief-stricken face.
But no sooner had she finished speaking, Gregory interrupted her directly: "Calling him ’Brother Nathan’ so affectionately, does that sound like being forced? You can’t even lie properly."
"Brother Gregory?" Holly didn’t expect Gregory to ridicule her so coldly.
After all, Gregory had never spoken a harsh word to her before.
"How can you say that about me? We were so in love before..."
Holly was about to denounce Gregory, but he cut her off before she could finish.
"Then why, when you were doing those dirty things with Nathan Jacobs, didn’t you think about how we were so in love before, and that you were still my fiancée?"
Gregory felt a surge of fury.
Before, it was indeed for the status and power of The Houston Family in Westmarch that he had abandoned Vivian Lynn and chosen Holly Houston.
No matter how bad Holly’s temper was, he had endured it.
But what did all this bring him?
Betrayal by Holly Houston, a humiliation known to the entire world!
Now he felt he could kill Holly Houston.
And yet Holly still attacked him, claiming he couldn’t talk about her that way?
"I don’t even know why things turned out this way."
Holly knew she couldn’t fool him, so she simply begged for forgiveness.
She clung to Gregory’s arm, crying: "Brother Gregory, please forgive me this once. I promise I will never make such a mistake again."
Gregory was several years older than her, so he always unconditionally indulged and gave in to her when they were together.
Every time they quarreled, it was Gregory who first backed down and admitted his mistake.
Holly thought that this time, as she was rare in admitting her mistake, Gregory would surely forgive her.
Who knew Gregory not only didn’t forgive her but even pushed her to the ground.
"Get away from me, don’t touch me with those hands that have held another, filthy!"
Just thinking that during this time Holly had kissed Nathan Jacobs with the same lips she used to kiss him made Gregory feel nauseated. Not to mention being touched by her hands now!
Even after being pushed down, Holly was still a bit dazed.
Seeing this, her parents hurriedly helped her up.
No matter what she did wrong, she was still their child. How could her parents simply stand by and watch her be bullied?
"Gregory, even if Holly really did something wrong, you still can’t hit people, right?"
"Child, where did you fall?"
The elderly couple took turns reprimanding Gregory and checking Holly for injuries.
But listening to their concerns, Holly only felt her nose becoming more and more stuffy.
Her parents could forgive her unconditionally, so why couldn’t Gregory and his family do the same?
Faced with her parents’ accusations, Gregory nearly hysterically replied: "I don’t just want to hit her; I even have the urge to strangle her."
Back then, he chose Holly for the sake of his reputation.
Taking out a young, beautiful girl with an exceptional family background like Holly to dinners and gatherings was a great boost to his image.
But what now?
He was left with nothing but disgrace, and Holly’s pre-marital infidelity was known by everyone. Where would he put his face in the future?
Every time he thought about how no matter where he went, people would gossip behind his back about this humiliation, Gregory felt on the verge of collapse.
"How can you be so vicious? Holly just committed the same mistake men do, and you want to strangle her? She’s still your fiancée!"
Mrs. Houston’s rebuttal made Gregory lose all hope in the Houston family’s sense of justice.
He closed his eyes in despair: "Our engagement is null and void. She will no longer be my fiancée. I won’t have such a disgusting woman."
It’s the answer Holly Houston least wanted to hear, but Gregory finally said it.
She panicked.
"Brother Gregory, at this critical moment, how can our engagement be called off? If this gets out, everyone will surely think the video is real. How will I live then?"