Chapter 13
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Seeing that someone was about to come over, Rachel glanced over coldly and asked, “Are you trying to gather a group of people?”
“…”
Seeing that no one dared to come over anymore, she looked down at Serina whom she was pressing down on.
Originally, on account of how they were sisters, after all, she had only wanted to know the whereabouts of her son and hadn’t intended to make things so ugly. But injecting hormones into her when she was only five? Such a grudge had removed all of her restraint.
Smack!
She slapped Serina ruthlessly across her cheek. When she saw her cheek visibly swelling, she slowly said, “If you continue to keep silent, I’ll beat you up so bad you won’t even recognize yourself anymore.”
A trembling Serina couldn’t hold it in anymore. She burst into tears and said, “I’ll talk, I’ll talk! That child—”
“That child… Dad was the one that handled it. He never told me. I don’t know anything…”
The sobbing Serina’s speech was unclear. As the others were a distance away from her, they couldn’t hear her clearly.
Rachel frowned slightly, frightening Serina so badly that she spoke again. “I really don’t know! I swear! If I’m lying, then let my face become pockmarked! Sob…”
Serina had always been vain since she was a child. The fact that she had sworn such a vicious oath showed that she really didn’t know.
Rachel couldn’t hide her disappointment.
She couldn’t be bothered to waste any more time, and she stood up and walked out slowly.
When she passed by Ethan, Rachel thought of how she had ultimately been violent just now and ended up embarrassing Ethan.
She wanted to explain, so she looked at Ethan.
The man was also looking at her, his eyes deep and unfathomable.
Rachel thought for a while. After she thought of what to say, her lips parted. However, the moment she opened her mouth, she couldn’t help but yawn.
Ethan was rendered speechless.
Next to him, Alexander was furious. Never mind that she had hit someone, but she’s even yawning so arrogantly at Mr. Wright now? Was she showing off?
As soon as the thought appeared in his mind, the expressionless woman spoke. “I definitely wasn’t trying to provoke you, Mr. Wright.”
The corners of Alexander’s lips spasmed a little. Only a fool would believe that!
He was just about to give her a sarcastic reply when he heard his boss’ icy-cold reply: “… Uh-huh.”
Alexander was confused.
After explaining, Rachel walked past him slowly.
Ethan stared at her from the back and narrowed his eyes.
The woman’s actions just now had been decisive and straightforward and hadn’t been sloppy in the least. They were wild and fervent.
But it seemed like she hadn’t gotten what she wanted, and she looked a little sad. Her listless appearance unexpectedly made him want to help her.
As soon as the thought appeared, he heard Alexander, who was standing behind him, complain, “It’s a good thing that you forbade them from fighting. Otherwise, judging from Miss Parker’s skill, that group of rich kids would have been beaten up by her.”
“…”
Alexander said to himself again, “But surely she didn’t misunderstand and think that you were saving her, right? She’s already currying favor with John to get close to you. If she misunderstands, it’ll become even harder to shake her off!”
Ethan gave him a frosty look. “You’re too noisy.”
Meanwhile, at the cafe.
Nisha wore a small T-shirt, overalls, cowboy hat, and sunglasses, and she looked as if she was dressed in an endearing hip-hop style.
She bounced into the cafe and picked up her cell phone to find that Sally had sent her several text messages.
“Are you here yet? You’re already ten minutes late!”
“Surely you didn’t run away because you’re really a super cute girl?”
Nisha was about to reply when she received a call from Sally. She picked up and said, “I’m here, Sally! Table 25… 26… 28!”
An awfully bored Salina was already seated there with three empty glasses in front of him. “Yep, yep, Table 28, that’s right. You’re here? Where are you?”
“Look down.”
He looked down and saw a cowboy hat.
His gaze continued down past the hat to see his nephew, John’s, incredibly familiar face.
Salina was perplexed.
He rubbed his eyes and opened them again—the person in front of him was still there.
He became even more confused, and he subconsciously said into the phone, “Leader?”
“I’m here, Sally.”
Beside him was his young nephew’s childish voice.
Coming from his cell phone was the familiar young girl-sounding voice.
The two voices overlapped, causing Salina to collapse into the chair as if he had just seen a ghost.
He looked at Nisha incredulously and stammered, “L-l-leader?”
Nisha blinked her big, round eyes. “Uh-huh, that’s me.”
She didn’t expect Sally to be her uncle, either. The two of them had even had pizza with her father!
Nisha hung up, climbed onto the chair opposite, and sat down. Then, she said to the waitress, “A glass of milk, please. I’m still growing up, so I can’t drink coffee. Thank you.”
Her adorable self melted the waitress’ heart into a puddle of goo. “Sure, kiddo. Just a moment.”
Then, she quickly ran off to get the milk.
Salina felt as if the sky was falling.
Was this really his nephew that had always been clumsy with words?
He really was just pretending when he went against Ethan all this time!
Also! It was more than enough to have just one member who was derelict in his duties and playing games all day long among the Wrights. John was the one and only grandson! He was Ethan’s only son!
If Ethan were to know that he had been playing games with John… Salina swallowed hard. He felt as if he could already see himself in his grave.
Salina shuddered. Suddenly, he thought of something and jumped to his feet anxiously: “Sh*t! It’s already half-past eight! Ethan will be back soon! Hurry and go back up to do your homework, John! Otherwise, Ethan’s gonna kill us both!”
He threw $30 onto the table, picked up Nisha, and ran out as if he was competing in a 100-meter dash race.
But as soon as he ran to the entrance, he immediately saw Ethan exiting the bar with a group of bodyguards and waiting for the elevator.
Salina was shocked.
He put down Nisha and promptly said, “Go up the stairs to the second floor while I stop Ethan. After that, hurry to the top floor! Don’t let anyone find you!”
Without waiting for Nisha to reply, Salina rushed toward Ethan as if he was all prepared for his death. “I need to have a talk with you, Ethan.”
Ethan asked, “… What kind of talk?”
Salina braced himself against his icy gaze, bit the bullet, and said, “A… h-heart… heart-to-heart talk.”
“I’m not free,” Ethan said coldly and entered the elevator.
Salina followed him in. In order to buy more time, he pressed the elevator buttons for every floor in a panic. “I-it’ll only take a little of your time, Ethan…”
Ethan narrowed his eyes and said with mild displeasure, “You’d best really have some kind of trouble that you want to talk to me about.”
“Ethan, I think I…” Salina racked his brains, but he couldn’t think of any troubles that he had. Finally, he forcibly said, “I don’t like women?”
As soon as he said that, even he himself was dumbfounded.
What the f*ck?
What did he just say?
When he saw the contemplative look in Ethan’s eyes, he panicked. “No, that’s not what I meant, Ethan. I…”
A rambling Salina said a whole lot of things before he finally made it past the hurdle. When they reached the top floor and opened the door, upon seeing John sitting obediently at the desk and studying, he breathed a sigh of relief.
When he saw that Ethan had entered the study, he sneaked over to John and winked. “For your sake, I’ve been totally misunderstood…”
A question mark slowly appeared in John’s mind when he heard his inexplicable words: ?
Had Uncle Salina gone mad?
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