Chapter 258: You Decide It

"I don't know," Joshua replied.

"Then how can you agree to it?" Hazel looked at him with awkwardness.

"You agreed to it." Joshua was somewhat helpless.

"Huh..." Hazel was speechless. It was true, Joshua did not agree at first, but when she agreed, he nodded his head. It seemed that no matter what it was, Joshua would listen to her. Thinking of this, Hazel's heart felt warm.

"I wouldn't agree if I had started wondering sooner.." Hazel pouted unhappily.

"If you don't want to, then I will arrange somewhere else for her to live." Joshua proposed.

"Don't worry. Just forget it," Hazel shook her head. "We promised, and we may regret it, but we can’t change our minds now. And if I did, they would start taking it out on Theresa.”

The Flores family seemed to think that everything was Theresa’s fault. Thankfully, they would not do anything too drastic to her because of Joshua, but they would not just let her go for the same reason. No matter what, they would use Theresa as an outlet for their anger.

Hazel sat back thinking about how painful it must have been to have the porridge poured on her, and she began to feel depressed. Her phone startled her, it was Theresa.

“Strange, we were just talking about Theresa, and it is her,” Hazel said.

She pressed the answer button and asked with a smile, "Theresa, what happened?"

Theresa opened her mouth, but she hesitated. She did not know what to say, she had no evidence about what was happening, it was only a guess. Should she tell Hazel that her parents are not telling her their plans anymore? Even if she wanted to tell Hazel, she could not find the words.

After thinking about it for a few moments, she finally said, "Hazel, my brother's girlfriend, has a bad temper. I am worried that she will make you angry..."

Hazel lifted her eyebrows surprisingly. Theresa said these told her this, presumably as a warning, but she couldn’t guess why.

"You have a good relationship with her?" Hazel asked.

"Just so-so," Theresa said. "We were originally being traded within our families. She was to marry my brother, and I was to marry her. But, Lily got angry with my brother, and the marriage was delayed for several months.

After that, our family's economic situation improved, and their family regretted putting the wedding off. My family naturally refused to uphold the agreement. My brother has no sense of responsibility, they are together with no agreement.”

Hazel did not expect Theresa to tell her that. If this was the case, Caroline, who refused to lose anything, should definitely not like Lily Hall. So, Hazel said, “But I can tell your parents don’t hate her!”

Theresa helplessly explained, "My mother puts on a good appearance. Although she looks down on Lily, she will not do anything too nasty. And, in her opinion, Lily wants to, but with her son, they have not promised anything, so they have been delaying…”

"I understand," Hazel said. Theresa called her to tell her that Lily’s visit would not be a simple one. Why would they want her at the Denmark Residence, though? Was it so Hazel could be bullied in her own home?

"What?" Joshua looked at her.

"Nothing." Hazel shook her head. "It is about Lily Hall. Theresa said that she is not very good-tempered."

The light in his eyes darkened, "So..."

"It's okay," Hazel said with a smile. "If she has a bad temper, then she can go to someone else. Surely, she will control her temper when she is a guest, right?"

Joshua frowned slightly. "Hazel, you are too indulgent to the Flores family."

"Really?" Hazel's heartbeat accelerated, and she hurriedly said, "No? After all, she hasn't arrived yet. It's not good for us to drive people away. And, I am afraid that Theresa will be in a difficult situation. I still feel like someone poured that porridge on her.”

Joshua’s heart felt a little jealous about Hazel’s caring toward Theresa.

"Well, you decide it," he said without saying anything.

***

Lily Hall arrived a few hours later. Henry asked Theresa to pick her up at the station and to take her directly to Denmark Residence. Hazel had explained the situation to Nanny Carter so that there would be no misunderstanding when they returned.

After Lily and Theresa were back at Denmark Residence, Lily was surprised and could hardly speak a complete sentence for a long time. Theresa helped her to settle in and asked her, “Lily, why did you come here?”

“How could I not come?” Lily replied, displeased. “Theresa, I still try to treat you like a sister. You have such a rich brother, and you did not tell me?”

“It is not what you think, please don’t say that,” Theresa said, looking at the door. "He has not reunited with us, and I always thought that there might be a misunderstanding…”

"I know, your brother had told me," Lily waved her hand impatiently. "I can't mention it in front of him. I have to pretend to be a stranger. But Theresa, the marriage contract between our two families didn’t say who I would marry. If I don’t marry your older brother but Henry instead, it doesn’t make sense, right? So, in fact, my marriage contract should be with Joshua!”

Looking at the ambitious light in Lily’s eyes, Theresa only felt horror.

"Lily, you shouldn’t want to marry Mr. Denmark. No, Mr. Denmark has a girlfriend! And Mr. Denmark, he..."

"Why are you so discouraging?" Lily glanced at her with dissatisfaction. "I just said it. Can't you let me think about it and have a daydream?"

"You really just fantasize about it?" Theresa asked.

"Of course," Lily said dissatisfied. "Theresa, please tell me what kind of person Hazel is, I am quite curious. After listening to what Henry said, Joshua seems to like her very much?

"Yes." Theresa nodded without hesitation.

“How much?” Lily then asked.

Theresa’s face was ugly, and she really worried that Lily’s goal was to get close to Joshua! No, she has to find a way to dispel her thoughts.

"Let's say it like this," Theresa said without hesitation. "Although Mr. Denmark and Hazel are both living in Denmark Residence. The maids listen to Hazel’s orders, her bedroom is the most luxurious one. It seems like Hazel is the owner and Mr. Denmark is the guest.”

“Joshua actually lets her do that?" Lily was stunned.

"It isn’t that Hazel is messing around," Theresa said unhappily," Mr. Denmark told me that even if they did not agree, they should still do what Hazel said."