A Billionaire In Disguise

Chapter Forty-Six

The dining table was quiet as Catherine and Rome had their breakfast. But she was all smiles as she

bit into her toast.

"What is it?" Rome asked, looking adoringly at her.

"Nothing. I'm just happy." Catherine mumbled without losing her smile.

Slightly shaking his head, Rome gave a brief chuckle before focusing on his bowl of strawberries.

It got quiet again, but two minutes later, Daniel, the head of the house security, walked into the dining

room, disturbing the quietness as he said, "Ma'am, your cousin's husband is here."

"Dash?" Catherine asked, frowning faintly. "Why is he at our home this early?!"

"Allow him inside, and take him to the living room." Rome calmly uttered.

Nodding slightly, Daniel looked at him and said, "Yes, boss."

Then he turned around and walked out of the dining room.

"Did Chloe not contact Dash already to tell him where she is?!" Catherine said in annoyance.

"Hey, it's fine. Finish your food, and we can confront Dash together. Okay?" Rome said, gazing at her.

Even though Catherine was still annoyed, she nodded before focusing on her food.

A couple of minutes later, she and Rome got done with breakfast and left for the living room.

The moment they walked into the room and Dash's sight rested on Rome, he jumped to his feet and

shouted, "You bastard!"

A frown settled on Rome's face as he watched Dash rush towards him.

When Dash was just a step away from Rome, he suddenly threw a punch, catching Rome off-guard,

and his fist slammed against the right corner of Rome's mouth.

"What is wrong with you!" Catherine shouted, feeling shocked and enraged.

The feeling of anger stirred within Rome when he felt a warm liquid roll down his lip, and in that instant,

Dash went in for his second hit.

But Rome grabbed his wrist, tightly in his grip, and with his other hand, he smashed his elbow into the

side of Dash's head, the soft spot high on the temple.

As the pain tore through his head, Dash took a step back only to receive a vicious hit from Rome

against his chest, causing him to take two more steps back before dropping to the floor.

Struggling to catch his breath, Dash aggressively coughed until he spat out blood onto the marble,

white tile.

"Now, I advise you to think twice before getting your ass up and attempting another attack again!!"

Rome coldly uttered, wiping the blood off his lips.

"I thought you had some decency. Who knew you were just an asshole!" Dash screamed in rage. "Was

Catherine not fucking enough for you! Did you have to sleep with my wife too!"

"What are you talking about?" Catherine asked in confusion.

"Your husband and my wife were in Archenland together! Did he tell you that?"

"I know that already, Dash!"

"Okay! Okay then, he must have also told you how he slept with my wife!"

Drawing her brows together into a frown, Catherine looked at Rome for a moment before glaring at

Dash and saying, "Nothing happened between my husband and Chloe. She tried to come on to him,

bu…"

"Hoho! Is that the garbage he fed you! That she tried to seduce him, but nothing happened!" Dash

mockingly said. "You are so fucking naive, Catherine! He slept with Chloe, and I have evidence. The

whole world has the proof!"

In that instant, there were so many thoughts running through Catherine's head, and she tried to fight off

the negative ones, but they were the ones that were louder and convincing than the rest.

"What nonsense are you spitting out?! I never slept with Chloe!" Rome casually uttered with a frown.

A bitter laugh escaped Dash's lips as he reached into his pocket. Then he pulled out his phone, tossed

it at Catherine's feet, and said, "Oh, really! Then what the hell is this!"

Striving to stop her body from shivering, Catherine gazed down at the phone with a look of hesitation in

her eyes and took a deep breath.

Then she reached for it and grabbed it off the floor before looking at the video on the screen.

"Play it!" Dash harshly said, looking her dead in the eyes.

Slowly, Catherine turned her head to stare at Rome, and when their gaze met, he could see tears

welling up in her eyes.

"I didn't sleep with your cousin." Rome slowly said while focusing solely on her teary eyes.

A mirthless laugh echoed out of Dash's mouth as he glared at Rome with hurt in his eyes. Then without

thinking straight for a second, he harshly uttered, "You are full of shit, you know that, right?! just

because you help my family and me, you think I will be okay with you screwing my wife!"

Suddenly, the room grew silent when Catherine hit the play button, and the three of them heard Chloe's

voice flowing from the phone speaker, "Rome Ford!"

For a moment, none of them spoke. Then after a few seconds, they all heard, "You jerk! Is it okay to

use a woman and leave without telling her!"

Fighting back her tears, Catherine looked up at the ceiling and pressed her lips in a firm line while

sniffing softly.

"Just because your father is powerful, you think a woman's body is just a toy! You are such a player!"

Chloe's voice echoed again.

"Babe," Rome called out to Catherine.

But she refused to look down or gaze his way, and even though he felt enraged that someone was

daring enough to post the video, he was more concerned about what she was feeling and thinking.

"Young man, how could you be so heartless to such an innocent woman!"

When Catherine heard the elderly lady's voice, she immediately broke down and clapped her hand

over her mouth as she cry silently, fighting her urge to scream out the pain.

"Do you believe me now!" Dash said, finally struggling back to his feet.

Looking down at him, Catherine suppressed her emotions, and with a numb expression on her face,

she sluggishly tossed his phone on the floor.

"Rome didn't sleep with your wife and this video proves nothing." Catherine coldly uttered as she

watched him pick up his phone.

"You damaged it!!" Dash harshly said. "Also, that's a man robe on your cousin, and it's exactly Rome's

size. Look how messy her hair is!"

Then he leaped towards Catherine, looked deep into her eyes, and firmly said, "Don't tell me you are

this stupid!"

Without holding back, Catherine clutched her jaw, raised her hand, and smacked him in the face.

A look of shock crossed Dash's face as he rested his palm on his cheek.

"Get out!" Catherine coldly uttered without breaking eye contact with him.

Striving to keep a grip on his anger, Rome glared at Dash and said, "You heard her! Get out of our

house!!"

Even though Dash's rage was still eating at him, he scowled at Rome and then hopped past him,

heading out of the living room.

When Dash left, Catherine turned to leave, but Rome grabbed her wrist and said, "Don't tell me you

believe that I slept with Chloe."

"I don't believe anything that comes out of my cousin's mouth, and no, I don't believe that you two had

sex." Catherine calmly mumbled, looking away from him.

"Then what are you mad about?" Property belongs to Nôvel(D)r/ama.Org.

"I just wish you were more honest in your details concerning what happened between you two in

Archenland."

"I was trying to protect your feelings."

Withdrawing her hand from Rome's grip, Catherine frowned at him and said, "I didn't need you to

protect my feelings! I wanted honesty from you! You said, 'Nothing happened!"

"I meant, sexually!"

"Well, next time be clear with your words!"

Then she walked out of the living room, ignoring Rome when he shouted after her, "Catherine, let's talk

about this."

For a moment, he stood in the silence, dumbfounded by everything that had happened so far.

Then a couple of minutes later, the sound of footsteps drew his attention to the doorway, and a second

after, Rome saw Scar entering the living room.

When he reached Rome, he took one look at his face and said, "I guess you have seen the video."

"Unfortunately, yes. Someone edited it. That's not the entire clip of what took place." Rome said,

walking over to the couch.

Then he sluggishly sat down and mumbled, "Whoever posted that video wanted to make it seem like

something did happen between Chloe and me."

"I spoke with Brook this morning, and he said that you got a call from the puppets' master?" Scar

calmly uttered.

"It wasn't him, and now that I think about it, last night was a setup."

"How?"

"Mr. Jackson's call was to make me stay in Archenland a little longer. The meeting between us was to

get me to leave my room at eight, giving Chloe enough time to enter my suite."

"Wow,"

"Making sure that Jackson doesn't show up to our meeting, was another step up to get me to go back

to my suite alone, just in time to meet Chloe there."

Feeling confused, Scar lowered his brows and mumbled out loud, "Wow, boss, how did you figure it

out!"

"Whoever this fool is, he has done his research on me, and he's using a play from my book to take me

down." Rome coldly uttered with a deadpan expression.