He Stole Me From My Deadbeat Husband-Chapter 522: Side Story: A Secured Future (6)

"I don’t think you understand the severity of your situation, you useless scum," Henry said. His gaze darkened. Had it not been for his son, who sat on his lap right now, he would’ve punched that ugly bastard until he fell on the ground, writhing in pain.

But he had to be a good father figure for Theo, and that included not showing any violence, because Henry knew very well the side-effect of violence to a child.

Kate glanced at her husband, telling him with her eyes that she could handle this alone.

"Do you refuse to understand your situation, or are you really daft?" Kate asked.

Matt turned his head and glared at Kate, "You’ve done enough to humiliate me, Katherine. I know you’re just turning me into a clown right now," Matt sneered as he looked at Henry. "Yeah, I get you are successful now, and you have a happy family. I don’t give a damn about you anymore, Kate. So let me go, now!"

"You can’t just skid around freely after working with a corrupt lawyer who’s currently serving his time in prison right now," Kate mentioned.

Matt’s blood ran cold immediately. His fierce expression vanished as he realized that Kate and Henry knew Matt was involved with Graham Hubbard.

Thus, Matt tried to defend himself, "I—I know nothing about Graham Hubbard. I was living an honest life after you divorced me!"

"I haven’t mentioned his name," Kate smirked. "You just admitted it yourself, Matt. You were involved with Graham Hubbard."

"You—"Matt had unknowingly fallen into her trap, and now she didn’t need to work hard to make Matt admit that he had been involved.

Kate grinned amusedly, "Do you realize how easy it is for us to put you in jail? You can rot there with Graham and lose all of your chance to have a better life."

Matt never knew that Kate could be so intimidating. He clenched his fist as he felt humiliated but couldn’t do a thing to reject her as she was much more powerful than he was right now.

"Then what will you do if I have to work in your company?" Matt asked.

"You act like you didn’t sign the contract yourself," Kate scoffed. "You signed everything, and Mindy already made a copy of it. If you dare to break the contract, you’ll have to pay a fine of up to ten million dollars."

"TEN MILLION—!!" Matt’s eyes almost popped out of their sockets. He felt that he had been cast into the deepest hell as he realized he had no way out now. "H—How could you—"

"Oh, relax, don’t be so dramatic," Kate chuckled. "You’re not going to get killed or anything. You should be grateful that you get a job for the next ten years, right?"

"I know you, Katherine," Matt said with his eyes peering at her. "You are a very despicable woman who will do anything to ruin me even though I did nothing wrong."

"You did nothing wrong?" Kate scoffed. "Oh, well, I know you have a selective memory anyway. You won’t remember all your mistakes but will try to make me the culprit of your sad and depressing life."

Kate grabbed the copy of the contract again and read the content, "I will summarize everything for you. On page three, you’ve agreed not to take any other job, acting or not, while you’re under my company for ten years."

"Page five, you are not allowed to speak about the company’s secret in public, nor are you allowed to do it online, or you will have to pay a hefty fine."

"Page seven, you are willing to accept the fixed payment that the company will give you, no matter the amount per month, for all of your work."

"Page ten, if the willing party breaks any of the agreements listed above, you will have to pay the fine of ten million dollars."

It was like thunder in a clear sky for Matt. He felt like he had been struck by one misfortune after another.

"It’s your choice, Matt. You can break this contract you just signed and go to jail because I’m sure you don’t have ten million dollars. Or you will have to work in my company," Kate smiled. "I assure you, I will give you enough money to live desperately every month and enough work to break your bones. It’s a good payback after you leeched off from my hard work for ten years."

Matt felt that his knees were weak after realizing that he was basically fucked for the next ten years.

Knowing Kate, she wouldn’t be generous with the money he could get, and who knew what kind of job he would have to do next?

"This... can’t be..." Matt felt weak and slumped to the ground like an idiot.

"Look up, Matt," Kate said, and Matt lifted his head obediently.

He saw Kate, who looked at him like he was an ant and said, "You will pay for making me your cash cow for five years, fooling me into thinking that I was the barren one in our relationship."

Matt had nothing else to say as he was too shocked to react after knowing his fate, so Kate told Michael to drag this bum out of her office.

She waited until Matt and Michael were out of the room, and the door was closed.

She sighed and leaned on the chair tiredly.

"You did great, Kitty," Henry said.

Kate glanced at her husband. She wasn’t the CEO of this new company, obviously. Even if she could, she had no time to juggle between being a mother, checking the Empress Publishing to help Mai occasionally, and her duty as Duchess.

One of Henry’s subordinates would manage this company, and once Theo turned eighteen, this would be the first company to be transferred under his name for their son to learn how to manage a company.

Everything was an act staged by Henry so Kate would get the last laugh in front of Matt.

If she could be honest, it was effective enough because she was satisfied seeing Matt’s spirit flew out of his body.

But she had already moved on anyway.

"You should give me a good reason why you need to trap him here," Kate said as she got up and walked to the sofa to sit beside her family. "We could’ve just let him be. He’s not a threat to us, right?"

"He’s not," Henry agreed. "But he’s still someone who once harmed you. After an investigation, I found out that Graham wanted to make him a big star by giving him proper training so he could use Matt to publicly shame us, twisting the story that you are the one who left an honest man like him and I was a man with no dignity."

Kate gasped.

She didn’t expect Graham to go that far to ruin their lives. She thought that Graham could at least think rationally, but Sarah had truly poisoned his mind.

"Even in death, that woman is still very poisonous..." Kate murmured.

"Yeah, that’s why we have to keep that man under control. I don’t want him to become a weak spot for us in the future," Henry said. He gently touched Kate’s belly and added, "I will protect you and our children."

Kate gave Henry a quick kiss on the lips and put her hand on top of his, "I know you will, honey."

Theo saw his parents touching his Mama’s belly, so he did the same.

"Oh?" Kate and Henry looked down simultaneously and saw Theo rubbing Kate’s belly as well.

Kate chuckled, "Theo, do you want a baby brother or sister?"

"Brother," Theo said without hesitation.

"Really? Why?"

"Um... I have Val. So, I want a baby brother..." Theo replied.

Henry shook his head in disagreement but said nothing, much to Kate’s amusement.

"You really don’t want another son?" Kate asked.

"A daughter is better," Henry replied. "If we keep having sons, I’m sure all of them will look and act like me."

"And if we don’t get a daughter?"

"We will keep trying," Henry said. "That is... if you want to have more."

"I don’t mind four or five," Kate giggled.

"Mhm, I hope we can get a daughter, eventually," Henry assured.

Little did they know, they might have to keep trying for a daughter in the future.