A Replacement Bride

Chapter 201

"Forget about me, Katherine. Just go." Jorge came to his senses at that moment, struggling to get the words out of his mouth while seizing Katherine's wrist.

Katherine kept her head down and looked at her own father, who had always tried to take advantage of her throughout her whole life. Nevertheless, she only saw kindness and remorse in the man's eyes instead of his usual ill intentions now that he was close to death. Soon, she pursed her lips and kept her eyes on Jorge without letting the man go. Then, she sat him up and let him lean on her.

Instead of checking on Beatrice, who was acting crazy, Katherine went on to take her father out of the premises for a walk.

In the meantime, Jorge set his eyes on the side view of Katherine's face, feeling as if he was looking at his deceased wife, Elsie. With a smile on his face, his hands finally dropped from Katherine's shoulders. In that instant, Katherine could no longer feel her father's breath anymore, shivering from head to toe for a second as she stopped in her tracks.

A few moments later, she heard hasty footsteps from behind her, whereupon Joaquin showed up and wrapped his arms around her. At the same time, Jeremy, who was following right behind Joaquin, immediately went on to take care of Jorge's lifeless body.

"Are you alright? Are you hurt?" Joaquin asked in a concerned manner, his gaze fixed on the young lady.

Katherine shook her head and looked back to gaze at Beatrice. "Aren't you going to say goodbye to her?"

He responded by pursing his lips in silence for the next few moments. Despite the mistakes that Beatrice had made, he still couldn't deny the fact that she was the first woman with whom he had intimacy. He then recalled that night when he would have died if it had not been for Beatrice.

he would have died if it hadn't been for Beatrice. Because of that, he felt indebted toward her, thinking he should forgive her, no matter how many mistakes she had made, but nonetheless, he could no longer force himself to be with her.

"Let's get you out of here first." Joaquin looked away from Beatrice and walked Katherine out through the factory's door.

Not long after that, the bomb disposal unit arrived. In fact, when Jeremy and Katherine arrived at that place, they secretly inspected the area and realized that bombs were buried around the area. Thus, he went on to detonate the bombs and notified Joaquin about the situation before Joaquin arranged a team of bomb disposal units to save Katherine. From NôvelDrama.Org.

Fortunately, everything went according to plan, with Ian checking on the remaining bombs and Joaquin heading into the premise to rescue the hostages.

While it was later found out that Katherine was fine, Beatrice was taken out of the place by Ian and his men. When she saw Joaquin, tears rolled down her cheeks.

She then called out to the man sympathetically. "Joaquin."

However, the man only stopped in his tracks without looking back, but his spine was starting to stiffen.

"I have something I want to tell you!" Beatrice shouted.

Joaquin pursed his lips and looked at Katherine glacially before he responded, "Say it, then."

"Are you sure about that? This is something important. If you don't hear me out, I'm sure you're going to regret it!" Beatrice shouted again.

"Go. She is not going to live much longer anyway. Do me a favor and hear what she has to say." Katherine patted Joaquin's shoulder and walked up to the car without him before she entered it.

Joaquin pursed his lips and slowly approached Beatrice, who gazed at him with a smile. Finding the smile on the lady's face familiar, the man couldn't help but recall the time he woke up in the hotel room that night as he was reminded of her sweet and bashful smiling face when he opened his eyes.

In that instant, he paused and wondered when Beatrice had turned creepy. Not knowing what to say, he could only look at her silently.

Soon, Beatrice shook off Ian's hand and walked closer to Joaquin, tipping her toes to whisper in the man's ear. Then, she stepped back and stood beside Ian while smiling at Joaquin. "I'm sorry, Joaquin. I know I shouldn't have lied to you about this over the years, but I couldn't help it because I loved you so much."

"You…" Joaquin pursed his lips as his anger surged through him inside his body. I can't believe Beatrice has been lying to me this whole time. She was not the lady who slept with me that night five years ago. "Who's that lady? Do you know who she is?" Joaquin stepped closer to Beatrice.

However, Beatrice only responded with a smile as blood started to trickle out from her lips. The next second, she gazed at Joaquin and opened her mouth, but what came out of it was not the answer he wanted but blood. In the end, she collapsed onto the ground and took her last breath with her eyes wide open.

At that moment, Joaquin nearly lost his mind, stepping even closer as he grabbed Beatrice by his collar. "Tell me! Who is she? What else do you know?" Nevertheless, Beatrice only shifted her eyes to the car that Katherine was in with a smile just when her heart finally stopped beating. Knowing that she

had failed her mission, she was sure that the mastermind behind it would never let her live. This had always been a deal, and I ended up on the losing end.

"Beatrice!" Joaquin snarled so loud that his voice echoed through every corner of the factory. Disappointed by the grim reality, he wished Beatrice hadn't told him the truth so that he could date Katherine with a clear conscience. In fact, the lady who had a one-night stand with him in Fontan was not Beatrice but someone else. What was even more shocking to Joaquin was that the lady even gave birth to their child. At the thought of that, his rational mind was consumed by his anger.

"Boss!" Ian was frightened to see Joaquin's frantic reaction as he quickly approached him and placed his palm on his shoulder in an attempt to calm him down.

Sensing someone's hand on his shoulder, Joaquin was prompted by his quick reflexes to flip the man from behind him over his shoulder until he saw Ian's face. It was only then that he restrained himself from succumbing to his impulses and shoved Ian away from him. With a darkened look on his face, he made his way toward Jeremy's car and entered it.

Meanwhile, Katherine, who noticed the man's gloomy aura, only looked askance at him without saying a single word.

Not long after that, Jeremy returned upon taking care of his business and immediately sensed something wrong the moment he got into the car. Noticing Joaquin's darkened look, he couldn't help but gaze at Katherine in bewilderment, but she only responded by raising her eyebrows before closing her eyes in silence. Without getting any answer to his question, Jeremy could only proceed to drive off with slight disappointment.

After confirming that there was no one else around Ewing Factory besides Beatrice, Jeremy proceeded to take Jorge and Beatrice's lifeless bodies away as he left the case for the people from Area Seven to handle.

As soon as Katherine and Joaquin walked through the door, they were greeted by the sight of Xavier's exhausted face. "Hey, Katherine, here you are. You have no idea how hard the mission you assigned me is. Why did you want me to intercept their GPS signal? I thought I only needed to track the source of the signal. Those people should have seen their own stuck-up faces. I can't believe they were trying to broadcast their murder."

"GPS signal? Did you find anything useful then?" Katherine asked, feeling surprised.

"The technology here isn't advanced enough for me to intercept the signal. Why don't you give it a try?" Xavier shook his head helplessly.

"Alright, let's head over to my room." She took the man into her room.

At that moment, he subconsciously peeked at Joaquin, only to realize Joaquin had barely paid attention to him and Katherine. Thus, he stroked his chin and followed Katherine into the room.