Chapter 1244: Nightshade Residence Shrouded in Chilling Coldness
However, before Sophie Nye could take action, a strong and powerful arm surrounded Aurelia Shaw, pulling her into his embrace, pressing her firmly against his chest, where she could hear the strong and accelerated heartbeat.
Mason Nightshade’s deep, cold eyes surged with a storm-like chill, coldly directed at the butler, Nolan Lawson, Gustavo Yates stepped forward, and within moments, had Nolan Lawson pinned to the ground.
Nolan, who had been struggling, accidentally met Mason’s frosty gaze, his whole body instantly lost strength, his fingers weakened, dropping the knife to the ground, and powerlessly kneeling down, sobbing silently in pain, "Young Master, I have wronged you, I am truly sorry..."
Mason averted his gaze. Nolan was someone who had watched him grow up, and although he had crossed his line, he had served the Nightshade Family for so many years, taking care of his grandfather for so long; he couldn’t strike him down harshly.
But he couldn’t tolerate him any longer, "Nolan, doing this will greatly disappoint grandfather."
After saying this, Mason ignored Nolan’s utterly weakened state and despairing eyes, gesturing for Gustavo Yates to take him away.
As soon as Gustavo took him away, Mason’s sharp gaze suddenly fell on Sophie Nye. Sophie shivered, trembling and not daring to meet Mason’s eyes.
"I’ll take what you said earlier as unintended." In a warning tone, Mason instructed the servants: "Take the mistress back, all the servants’ salaries will be deducted this month, those on duty today won’t be coming back tomorrow."
The servants broke out in cold sweat, trembling slightly in fear. They knew this was the Young Master’s warning; he had instructed before that the mistress was not allowed in the main building, yet they still secretly let her in...
This time, the Young Master was merciful by merely deducting salaries and dismissing people, next time...
They couldn’t imagine, hurriedly dragging Sophie away.
Sophie was exceptionally compliant at this time, her face pale. Mason had heard it, he heard what she said just now, ultimately her son was beyond her control. Sophie had to admit this fact.
The room suddenly fell silent; Mason saw the fine blood marks on Aurelia’s pale neck, his gaze grew cold again, he fetched the medical box, glancing ambiguously at her on the sofa.
Aurelia felt uneasy, thinking it wasn’t her fault this time; the trouble came to her, after all, she believed she handled it defensively well, shouldn’t be reprimanded, right?
She was weak all over, slouched against Mason’s chest, Mason lifted her chin, his eyes lowered, the long and dense lashes casting shadows embedded with lingering chill and hidden dangers.
He was trying hard to restrain from being murderous towards Nolan, wasn’t he?
Suddenly, she somewhat understood why Mason was angry.
It wasn’t about the matter with her, he was angry with himself.
"Well... I..." Aurelia was just about to explain herself, thinking this was a great opportunity to ease their relationship. If she didn’t take advantage of her injury and Mason’s sympathy to quickly reconcile, when will she have such a good chance again?
However, before she could speak, Mason softly interrupted her, "Why did you go to Emily Stewart’s house?"
One sentence choked Aurelia’s words in her throat, along with feeling a wave of guilt, Mason being so clever definitely wouldn’t believe she went to see Emily. She had indeed gone to see Nolan to deliberately keep it from Mason, intending to investigate Isabella Parker and Godwin Nightshade’s matters. But could she say that to Mason?