Chapter 80 Dora the Scoundrel

"Okay, thank you!" Kate thanked both of them.

Nick said, "You are welcome! You are Lisa's best friend, so you are also my friend. We will be by your side when you need us!"

Kate felt like crying. But she tried to restrain herself and replied, "Don't worry. I can deal with everything."

"Kate!" Daisy pulled Kate to a corner and whispered to her, "Your dad is furious now. You'd better stay away from him and not talk to him until he calms down!"

"Daisy, I divorced Joseph," Kate told her calmly.

"What?" Daisy was shocked. She asked, "You love him. Why would you…"

"Love?" Kate scoffed, "Can love to replace everything? At that time, he did not fall in love with me. I don't want to live such a humble life."

Daisy looked at her with pity and encouraged her, "I will back every decision you made."

"Thank you. Let's take my stuff to my bedroom."

"Okay!"

As Kate and Daisy were carrying her suitcases inside, Leo rolled his wheelchair up to them. He was even angrier than before; Kate hadn't said anything to him after when he shouted at her. He yelled again, "Didn't you hear what I said?"

His questioning made Kate very uncomfortable. She said, "Some words, I have to pretend not to hear."

"How can you say that?" Leo thought his daughter was polite before, but she had become more and more headstrong, "Don't think that you can force others out of her as the owner of this house."

"You are correct; this is my house. I have the right to kick anyone I don't like out," Kate argued back at him for trying to defend Dora and Anna.

"You…" Leo was too angry to utter a word. After a while, he shouted, "Will you really drive them away?"

"Yes. I am serious!"

"Lady Kate, I have got all your things in your room," a maid commented.

"Okay, now go clean my bedroom right now. Throw out any of Dora and Anna's belongings. If I find anything of theirs in my room, I will deduct it from your salary!" Kate ordered.

Kate was aware that Dora hired all of the servants. Therefore, if she did not establish her authority immediately, they would look down upon her.

"Yes, Lady Kate!" the maid nodded and signaled to the others to help.

Leo did not understand why Kate was asking them to clean her room. He questioned, "Are you moving in?"

"Yes!" Kate answered him directly as she thought it not necessary to cover up the fact. Perhaps it was because she had already accepted the truth, but Kate calmly said, "I have divorced Joseph, so I will now live in my own home."

As his daughter, Kate clearly knew what was worrying Leo. She smiled, "Don't worry, Dad. I will help you manage and operate White Group."

Kate did not want to take over the family business, but with Leo's difficulties walking, she had to try.

"You?" Leo looked at her, suspiciously, "I asked you to get a bachelor's degree in economics, but you didn't listen. You took art, how do you think you will be able to manage a company? It is not easy!"

"Dora is only good at playing bridge, and she isn't family. However, you allowed her to manage White Group," Kate snarled. She sighed and said, "I understand that I have not learned about corporate management, but I am not totally ignorant of how it works."

Leo knew that he could not change her mind, so he asked, "Did you really divorce Joseph?"

"Do you think I'm lying?" Kate commented.

Leo took a deep breath and cried, "I know that there was no love between you two and that you would get a divorce sooner or later. However,…"

"Dad, if you don't have anything else to say, I am going to go to my bedroom to rest," Kate interrupted.

"You don't…" Leo asked her cautiously, but Kate went upstairs without looking back.

Leo had no choice but to watch her walk away.

At dinner, Kate and Leo were eating quietly when Dora's shrill voice echoed from down the hall.

"You bastard, Leo! Your daughter and I have nowhere to live, but you are sitting having a meal as if nothing happened. Do you still consider me your wife and Anna, your daughter?"

Hearing Dora's voice from behind him, Leo put his knife down and turned his wheelchair around to face her. He glimpsed at Kate as he spun around; he wanted to say something but dared not to.

Kate continued eating her dinner, ignoring both Leo and Dora.

"Don't shout in here," Leo ordered and glared at her as a warning not to make a mess in the house.

Dora either did not understand what he meant or didn't care. She shouted, "I will not only shout, but I will also break everything in this house! I will not let you live in peace!"

Running into the living room, Dora began to smash anything she could grab. Leo wheeled his chair behind her and saw his valuable vase laying broken, "What are you doing, Dora? Do you know how expensive that vase was?"

"I don't care. If you don't let me come back, I will break everything!"

Kate slammed her fork and knife down on the table. She marched to the living room and warned Dora, "I will count to three, and then if you do not stop, I will call the police!"

Dora paused for a moment, "Don't threaten me with the police!" She sat down on the sofa and lit a cigarette, "I will not leave her, even if I die, I will haunt this house!"

"Get her out of here!" Kate ordered the housekeeper.

"I…I dare not…" the housekeeper stammered.

Dora smiled in satisfaction, "He will not listen to you. He only sees me as the owner of this house!"

"Since you are so loyal to her, you can leave with her!" Kate turned to Daisy, "Pay him what he is owed, and then he is to leave the property."

"What?" Dora turned angry, "Don't push me to hit you."