Baird Lane’s thin lips moved as if to say something.
But the old master didn’t give him a chance to speak, and hummed heavily, “Just now, Old Fu also said that the reason why Christine got divorced was that you broke her heart, and this is something that everyone is looking at, and that’s exactly why I agreed to her divorce.”
“But she and I aren’t divorced are we? We’re not in the process of getting a divorce!” Baird Lane sulked.
The old man sighed, “Yes, it’s true that you guys aren’t divorced yet, but old man I’ll urge you to get divorced since I promised Christine, and Christine left you divorce papers, which should be in your room, so check it out for yourself in a while.”
“I won’t sign it!” Baird Lane said directly without thinking.
The old man wrinkled his brows, “So what if you don’t sign? This marriage is my decision, you must divorce, since you only have that woman from The Bort Family in your heart, why don’t you let Christine go free? Otherwise, if you keep spending time, it will only make Christine more upset.”
“Freedom?” Baird Lane’s eyes flickered.
The old man looked at him, “Yes, three years ago, when I let you and Christine get married, didn’t you also want to be free? Now that you’re divorced, aren’t both of you free, and what grievances do you still have?”
Baird Lane lowered his eyes without speaking.
The old man added, “I hear you’re having someone look for Christine?”
“Grandpa you know?” Baird Lane raised his eyes.
It hadn’t even been half an hour since he’d asked Gates to find Christine White, so how did the old man know so quickly.
thought Baird Lane, skimming toward Aunt Lucy out of the corner of his eye.
Aunt Lucy sheepishly averted her eyes and didn’t say anything.
Baird Lane saw this and where not to understand that it must have been Aunt Lucy who had listened to the wall and then told the old man.
The old man coughed lightly, “Well, don’t worry about how I know, hurry up and tell Gates to pull back his manpower and stop looking.”
“No, I must get her back!” Baird Lane was unmoved.
The old man’s face did not look good, “Catch back? You think you’re catching a criminal? What are you going to do after you catch her? Lock Christine up?”
Baird Lane pursed his lips, “No, I just don’t want a divorce.”
“Hmph, you don’t want a divorce now, what did you do then?” The old man pestled his cane and said angrily, “If it wasn’t for you always favoring that Bort woman and refusing to even avenge your own child, how could Christine be disappointed in you, and you’re at this point now because of yourself.”
“I know.” Baird Lane returned.
He’d always known Christine White had a problem with him not handling The Bort Family.
“Now that you know, have you put anything into action? But if you give a little, will Christine divorce you? She’s divorcing you now purely because she’s disappointed in you, because she knows that no matter what happens, you won’t protect her, and that’s why she’s determined to divorce you.” The old man grunted as he pointed at Baird Lane.
Baird Lane hmmmed and pressed his brow, “I’ve got The Bort Family out of the country.”
“Going abroad is the punishment for The Bort Family?” The old man sneered, “Baird Lane, do you think I don’t know what’s in your mind, it’s nothing more than wanting The Bort Family to hide abroad so that my hand can’t reach out that far, yes, it’s true that I can’t do anything to them right now, but as soon as they return to their home country, I’m definitely not going to let them off the hook.”
“Grandpa …”
“Well, my mind won’t change, and what I just told you, and I want you to take it to heart, you don’t need to go looking for Christine’s place, hurry up and sign the divorce papers and get the divorce license, that’s what I came over here this time to talk to you about.”
When he had finished speaking, the old man rose trembling, and Fubo hastened to hold him up, and the two old men thus left the villa under the watchful eye of Baird Lane.
Baird Lane stayed where he was for a while and reentered the upstairs room as well.
This time, he finally saw the bag of papers at the foot of the bed and picked it up.
Baird Lane was staring at the paper bag a little mesmerized, he could guess what was in it even without opening it, it would be the divorce papers Grandpa was talking about.
The file bag wasn’t heavy, but at the moment Baird Lane held it in his hand, it felt heavy and hot, as if he was holding a branding iron.
He didn’t open the paper bag after all, much less sign his name to it or call Gates to stop bringing back Christine White.
He actually understood what his grandfather meant, and knew that he should go along with it and sign the divorce papers, but for some reason, he was very resistant, and even felt a little reluctant to get divorced just like that!
That’s why he must get Christine White back and talk to her in person once.
Buzz, buzz!
The cell phone on the bed rang.
Baird Lane gathered his thoughts and picked it up and looked at it, the call was from Gates, he answered it straight away putting the phone to his ear, “Found it?”
“I’m sorry President Lane, we didn’t find madam, I asked at all the major bus stations and didn’t find any record of madam’s ticket purchases, and at the same time a little while later I specifically checked with madam’s friends and relatives and found that there was no record of their help purchases either, so I suspect that madam didn’t leave by bus.”
Not a car?
Baird Lane wrinkled his eyebrows, could Hugh Dong have lied and Christine White was not in a car, but a plane or high speed train?
If that were true, wouldn’t he have missed the best time to look?
Thinking about this, Baird Lane’s face became ugly, “You immediately go to investigate all transportation routes such as airplanes and high speed trains, make sure to find out Christine White’s whereabouts for me!”
“Yes.” Gates took the order.
Outside the door, Aunt Lucy overheard and narrowed her old eyes slightly before easing her footsteps and leaving quietly, and when she reached the stairs, she hurriedly called Christine White, “Ma’am, it’s not good, and now they’re sending people all over the place looking for you again.”
“Looking for me?” Christine White was on a somewhat older bus at the moment.
Aunt Lucy returned, “Yes, sir had Gates send for you when he knew you were gone.”
“Let him look, he won’t find it.” Christine White said without the slightest concern.
But Aunt Lucy was still anxious, “Ma’am, with Mr.’s ability to find you it’s only a matter of time, what will you do then?”
“It’s fine, I won’t have any relationship with him after that, what’s the point of finding me, we’ll just be familiar strangers when we meet again.” Christine White pretended not to care, but her heart was dripping blood.
To think of Baird Lane as a stranger was, for the moment, impossible and difficult for her.
Maybe it would be a long, long time from now, long enough for her to stop loving him, for her to let go of him, and maybe at that point, she would be able to honestly think of him as a stranger.
“Hey, that’s true, but I’m just afraid that mister will do something bad to you if he lets someone bring you back, you don’t know, ma’am, how horrible mister’s whole being became when he found out you were gone, I’ve never seen mister like that before.” Aunt Lucy looked up the stairs and lowered her voice.
Christine White bites her nails, “Terrible? He … What’s wrong?”
“Of course mister was very angry, and the master came behind him and talked to mister a lot.”
“What’s it all about?” Christine White was a little concerned.
Aunt Lucy sighed, “Of course she told Mr. not to mess around, told Mr. to be obedient and sign the divorce papers, and told Mr. not to look for you, but Mr. didn’t listen.”
“I know, Aunt Lucy, don’t tell him where I am or my phone number.”
“Don’t worry ma’am, I’ve got it covered, but …”
“But what?” Christine White inquired.