“Something like that, and just a reminder, don’t forget to come by for a retest at the weekend.” Ives Norton laughed softly.
Christine White exhaled softly, “Okay, I won’t forget, so I’ll hang up now?”
“Well, goodbye!” Ives Norton said goodbye.
“Bye!”
After hanging up, Christine White smiled slightly before putting her phone away and heading to the bathroom to wash up.
By the time she’d finished washing up, Aunt Lucy had already set out the meal.
She walked over and scanned the table, it was certainly hearty and made one’s appetite grow at first glance.
She sat down, grabbed her chopsticks and started eating, probably because it was because of Leo Bort’s jail time that she thought all the meals tasted better than usual today.
She too, as she had just said, had all but eaten a bowl of rice, and the price for finishing it was a stomach so full she couldn’t walk in her chair.
“Aunt Lucy, help me find the elimination tablets.” Christine White said bitterly.
Aunt Lucy covered her lips and snickered, “Okay, okay.”
Soon, she got elimination tablets.
Christine White took two down and continued to sit in her chair, waiting for her stomach to digest.
But after waiting for maybe a few minutes, she suddenly heard movement coming from the doorway.
Someone’s opening the door!
Christine White turned her head quietly toward the door, and her eyes were fixed there.
A few seconds later, the door opens and Baird Lane enters from the outside, wearing nothing but a black shirt, his jacket is resting neatly on his arm.
She walked over and Baird Lane heard footsteps and craned his head, “Awake?”
“Well, it’s noon and time to wake up.” Christine White said, reaching over and picking up the jacket from his arm.
Baird Lane concentrates on changing his shoes, “Did you see it on the news?”
Christine White was hanging up his coat when she heard the words and a light skimmed through her eyes, “I’m glad to see it, thank you.”
“You don’t have to thank me, it’s what I promised you and what Leo Bort deserves.” Baird Lane said as he finished changing his shoes and looked at her.
Christine White tugged at the corner of her mouth, “You’re right, but Molly Bort was punished for nothing.”
Baird Lane was slightly startled, then frowned, “You want Molly Bort to go to jail too?”
“If you want the truth, I’ll answer you, yes, I want her in jail.” Christine White met his eyes and nodded her head without condescension.
Baird Lane pursed his thin lips and was about to say something when Christine White added, “But I haven’t forgotten that you said that if you did let Molly Bort go to jail as well, there’s a chance that she’d go to extremes, and then my bone marrow and my baby would have been sacrificed for nothing, so I’m going to promise you that I’m not going to let Molly Bort go to jail as well but …”
“But what?” Baird Lane raised an eyebrow.
Christine White lifted her breath, “But do you think it’s going to end like this? Not to mention the fact that I’ll always hate her, she’s not going to stop, Leo Bort is in jail and she’s going to find a way to get him out.”
“I won’t let her have a chance to get Leo Bort out.” Baird Lane assured her.
Christine White however sighed and shook her head, “You still don’t know what I mean, what I mean is that you put Leo Bort in jail and you’re the only one who can get him out of jail so easily, she’s surely going to come and beg you to leave Leo Bort alone.”
Now Baird Lane understood, and his handsome face sank slightly, because of her suspiciousness, her distrust, “You think I’ll not be able to stand Molly Bort’s begging to let Leo Bort out?”
Christine White didn’t deny it and nodded, “Molly Bort she’s sure to come pestering you.”
“That’s her business, but it’s my business whether I let Leo Bort go or not, so don’t think too much about it, all right, have you eaten?” Baird Lane changed the subject with some impatience.
Christine White’s lips twitched, “Eaten, have you?”
“Not yet.”
“I’ll go ask Aunt Lucy if she has any more rice then.” Christine White said and went into the kitchen.
Baird Lane glanced in the direction of the kitchen, then pinched his brow and headed for the couch.
He had just walked over to the couch and before he had a chance to sit down, the cell phone in his pocket rang.
He first subconsciously frowned, then took out his cell phone to take a look, and when he saw the phone number bouncing on it, the color of his eyes deepened for a moment.
It just so happened that Christine White came out of the kitchen at this time as well, and when she heard the phone ringing, she looked around and saw Baird Lane standing in front of the couch with his cell phone, his brow furrowed in curiosity, and was mightily intrigued.
“Why don’t you answer?” She walked over to him and her eyes fell on his cell phone screen, which had only a string of phone numbers and no name of the caller, obviously not saved.
But looking at him, it was obvious that this number wasn’t an unfamiliar number either, but on the contrary was an acquaintance.
As for who it was, she probably had a good idea in her mind.
Sure enough, Baird Lane’s next move immediately confirmed her suspicions.
He only hung up the phone with a cold face and said in a deep voice, “A person who doesn’t know what he’s talking about has nothing to answer for.”
“It’s Molly Bort, isn’t it?” Christine White asked not in question, but in the affirmative.
Baird Lane narrowed his eyes at her and didn’t answer.
Christine White gave a low laugh, “I guessed right, it’s really Molly Bort, she called you at this time, she should be here to plead for mercy, it’s no use for you to hang up, you should have answered, otherwise she would have kept calling, and here it is, again.”
She nudged toward his cell phone, signaling him that Molly Bort had called again.
Baird Lane glanced down at his cell phone, his handsome face grim and somber.
“Take it.” Christine White advised him, “I’d also like to know how she’ll beg you and how you’ll treat her.”
She looked at him with a very serious expression.
“Are you sure?” Baird Lane stared at her.
Christine White nodded, “I’m sure!”
“Okay, I’ll meet you.” Seeing her insistent face, Baird Lane said nothing more, scratched the answer button in her face, and turned the external player on.
In an instant, Molly Bort’s bawling, sad cries resounded throughout the living room, “Baird … Ooohhhh …. Why did you do it?”
Baird Lane’s handsome face was icy cold, no ripples in the face of her questioning, “I remember what I told you yesterday, that you have to be punished for what you did wrong, and what you did wrong, I’ll get double revenge on Leo Bort.”
“But I didn’t think you’d let my dad go to jail!” Molly Bort cried.
Baird Lane grunted, “Jail is what he deserves.”
“No, it’s not like that Baird, I know my dad and I did something wrong, but why do you have to make my dad go to jail, if he goes to jail, what about me? Baird, for the sake of us having been together before, please spare my dad …” Molly Bort pleaded.
Christine White heard this and her eyes locked on Baird Lane, with a tendency to fight him if he dared to say yes.
Baird Lane naturally also saw the meaning in her eyes, and couldn’t help but feel a little amused, but he held it back very well and didn’t show the slightest bit, so his expression remained as indifferent and cold as ever, “Spare your father? You mean, what you guys have done, I don’t care about it?”
His tone was mocking.
On the other end of the line, Molly Bort’s eyes flashed sheepishly.
And she really meant it.
But she certainly couldn’t admit it outright.
So she cried even louder, “Baird, you obviously weren’t like this before, you didn’t even think of getting back at me and my dad before, you even went against Grandpa Lu’s pressure to let my dad leave the country, but now you’ve changed all of a sudden, is it because of what Christine White said to you?”
“She didn’t tell me anything, I just suddenly figured it out.” Baird Lane swept Christine White’s face back.
Molly Bort shook her head back and forth, “No, the Baird I know isn’t like that, she must have said something, Baird, tell me, did she threaten you with something?”