Chapter 800: Chapter 800: Her Cooking Skills (2)

Ten minutes later, Brooke Mitchell tried calling Nathaniel Nathan again, but his cell phone was already turned off. Nathaniel hadn’t given Brooke the landline number for the villa, so she had no other way to reach him.

By now, Brooke Mitchell knew Nathaniel was angry about what she’d said earlier, telling him not to bring Vera Xavier back to the Nathan family home. A sour feeling churned in her gut. ’Vera is clearly not good enough for Nathaniel. I’m only doing this for his own good. Why can’t he appreciate it?’

Brooke was an artist, and her thoughts tended to be complex. On top of that, Beckett Nathan had treated her so well over the years that it had been a long time since anyone dared to make her angry. But today, her own son had defied her, and she was so incensed that she burst into tears.

Through her tears, she vented her grievances and demanded that Beckett find Nathaniel and bring him back. Of course, Beckett could find his son if he really tried, but he was certain that with Nathaniel’s personality, he wouldn’t come back even if found. The mother and son had vastly different opinions on the matter of Nathaniel getting married.

Beckett felt a headache coming on. He was highly capable when it came to handling matters of state, but persuading people was something he was truly not good at.

Although Beckett felt Brooke had gone a bit too far today, Nathaniel had also been excessive. Caught in the middle, he had no idea what to do.

「The next morning,」 Nathaniel brought Vera back to the family compound. Brooke had been too angry to sleep the previous night. When they arrived, her eyes were still swollen, with dark circles clearly visible beneath them.

Brooke desperately wanted to give Nathaniel the silent treatment, but she remembered that her son had a heart of stone ever since he was a child. He would never change his mind because of her tears and tantrums. In fact, it was more likely her dramatics would just drive him away for good.

She inwardly lamented her miserable fate but didn’t dare to throw a fit. Although her expression was unpleasant, she didn’t have the courage to give Vera a hard time in front of Nathaniel.

Seeing Brooke’s appearance, Vera sighed to herself. ’Nathaniel really does know his mother. Even looking like this, her tone is much better than it was at the flower and bird market.’

Still, she couldn’t help but worry. Brooke clearly disliked her. She was holding back now because of Nathaniel, but if she ever exploded, it would be truly terrifying.

A sense of unease settled in her heart, but for the moment, she couldn’t think of a better way to handle the situation.

Vera decided it would be best to try and keep Brooke placated while she was at the Nathan family home. The housekeeper had the day off, so she went into the kitchen to lend Brooke a hand.

When it was just the two of them, Brooke’s expression turned even uglier. She didn’t speak at first, merely pointing to the steaks on a plate and saying, "I bet you’ve never had anything like this before, have you? This is top blade steak. You only get a few of these prime cuts from a single cow. Nathaniel spent many years abroad, and he only eats his steak cooked medium-well."

She said this to show off her worldly knowledge and, at the same time, to make Vera feel small.

But Vera was not so easily rattled. With a single sentence, she shattered Brooke’s composure. "You’re right, Ma’am. It’s just that when Nathaniel was on missions, he often had to survive on nothing but canned food and compressed biscuits. He’s a soldier. He’s used to adapting to his environment, not the other way around."

Even someone as nitpicky as Brooke couldn’t find a single fault with that statement. After all, Nathaniel being a soldier was an indisputable fact.

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