Mommy Alert! The CEO Daddy Won't Stop Courting-Chapter 472 Victoria Faints (1)

Charles Moore looked utterly puzzled.

He glanced at Malcom Moore, asking in confusion, "What’s going on? Aren’t you two together? Why are you coming to ask me?"

After speaking, something struck him, and Charles’ face immediately turned cold, "What? Did you and Luna have a fight?"

"No." Malcom shook his head, equally bewildered, "She just said some strange things to me and then left. I thought..."

Before Malcom finished, Charles urgently asked, "What strange things did she say?"

Malcom’s voice sank slightly, "She said she didn’t want to get engaged anymore!"

"What?" Charles’ voice suddenly rose.

Seeing someone looking in his direction, he quickly lowered his voice again, looking at Malcom and asking, "How could this happen? Why doesn’t she want to get engaged?"

Malcom shook his head, looking not so well, "I don’t know either, she didn’t give a reason."

"It must be you who bullied Luna! Tell me, if you didn’t bully Luna and didn’t make her angry, everything was fine initially. Why doesn’t she want to get engaged anymore, hmm?"

After saying this, Charles directly blamed Malcom, "Luna is the most obedient child, it must be because of you, you brat!"

Malcom: "..."

He didn’t know if it was because of him, but even if it was, he deserved to know why.

Disappearing at such an important occasion was irresponsible and way too willful!

Charles looked at Malcom with disappointment, criticizing, "Look at you, what should I say about you! You angered your wife and you don’t even know why, where’s all your wits gone? And you’re known as the famous playboy of River City? Can’t even understand your own woman, I think it’s all nonsense!... I don’t care, if the engagement doesn’t happen today, then I don’t have a son like you!"

While Charles blamed him, the host’s voice called for the family’s appearance for the third time, "On such an important day, with so many guests and friends present, our heroine of the night must be nervous. Come, let’s once again present a warm applause for the most beautiful Serena Sterling and our most fortunate..."

Serena Sterling was still nowhere to be seen, and Malcom suddenly panicked.

Initially, he thought that even if he did something unknown to anger her, throwing a tantrum or getting mad was understandable.

But she would always consider the bigger picture and wouldn’t be so willful.

Moreover, he didn’t think anything was serious enough for them not to go through with the engagement.

But given the current situation...

Malcom didn’t want to delay anymore and immediately went out to find Serena.

Charles also looked at him, urging, "Hurry and bring Luna back!"

At this moment, Victoria, who hadn’t seen Serena all this time, also came over hurriedly.

She grabbed Malcom, anxiously asking, "Malcom, where’s Luna? It’s so late already, why hasn’t she come over?"

Malcom looked at Victoria, speaking apologetically, "I’m sorry, Aunt. Maybe I made Luna angry, she just said she didn’t want to get engaged and then ran off."

Victoria’s brain exploded, and she could hardly stand.

Malcom quickly supported her, "Aunt, be careful."

Victoria looked at Malcom, asking in confusion, "Why? Why suddenly cancel the engagement?"

Malcom shook his head, "Aunt, I’m not very sure either. We were fine last night, but today Luna suddenly said she didn’t want to get engaged."

Victoria could tell that Malcom honestly didn’t know.

"This child, she’s way too willful!..." Victoria said, suddenly recalling that last night Serena mentioned she didn’t want to rush the engagement and asked her to speak with the Morris family about postponing it.

Last night she just thought Serena was nervous and didn’t take it seriously.

But now... what on earth is going on?

Now the guests are waiting, the host’s jokes and icebreakers have gone on endlessly.

Some noticed something wrong and started glancing this way.

"Aunt, don’t worry, I’ll go out and look now." After saying this, Malcom immediately went out to find Serena.

However, he searched the whole hotel but still couldn’t find any trace of Serena Sterling.

Meanwhile, rumors started spreading in the banquet hall.

A woman in a black evening dress stood with her arms crossed, speaking disdainfully, "On such an important occasion, the girl who’s supposed to get engaged ran away... Huh, typical of someone from a small family, truly ill-mannered!"

"Exactly, exactly." The woman next to her, wearing a magenta evening dress, added, "So unpresentable, really bringing shame to the Morris family!"

Hearing their talk, someone immediately began speaking mysteriously, "Do you know? The girl who’s supposed to get engaged to Young Master Morris doesn’t have a good family background, and her looks are quite average. It’s said that the only reason Young Master Morris is getting engaged to her is because she’s repaying a favor. She used her father to save Mr. Moore, and that’s the..."

Before this person finished, someone else scornfully cut in, "Pfft, who doesn’t know this story! If it weren’t for that bit of favor, would Young Master Morris fancy her? Still being so ungrateful, actually disregarding the Morris family’s face on such an important occasion, leaving so many people behind and running away."

Immediately, the whole banquet hall was filled with all kinds of gossip.

"Indeed, the Morris family was only marrying her to repay a debt of gratitude. A small-town citizen is just that, probably realizing she doesn’t match Young Master Morris, not fortunate enough to marry into a wealthy family."

"Haha, with Young Master Morris being so outstanding, let her run away then. Many girls from wealthy families, well-matched, are lined up to marry him."

"It’s good she ran now, it’s clear this match wasn’t suitable in terms of family background, and with their father’s favor being the only thing keeping them together, living together would be impossible without conflict in the future. Better to end it early while there’s still some benefit to be squeezed from the Morris family due to gratitude. If they truly got engaged and Young Master Morris got tired of her, she’d end up with nothing."

...

Hearing all these discussions, Charles Moore couldn’t stand still.

What’s all this about!

Although initially, he did have the idea for Malcom to marry the Sterling girl to repay kindness, but both kids disagreed, and it was dropped, wasn’t it?

The fact that these two eventually ended up together was something he hadn’t expected at all.

Although he didn’t know how much Malcom liked the Sterling girl now, he clearly knew: that brat getting engaged to the Sterling girl was definitely not because of any kindness!