“Not calling, just checking the news online.” Christine White took the phone back and then unlocked it to take a look and couldn’t help but eek when she saw another missed call on it.
“What is it ma’am?” Aunt Lucy asked.
Christine White tapped on a missed call, “There’s a call.”
“Who called? I didn’t hear anyone call.”
“A friend, my cell phone is on silent, so it’s normal that you can’t hear me.” Christine White said with a smile, dialing the phone over.
The phone was quickly answered and the man’s gentle, magnetic voice rang out, “Ms. White.”
“Mr. Toki.” Christine White greeted the man on the other end of the line, then apologetically said, “I’m really sorry Mr. Toki, I didn’t get the call you called earlier, may I ask what you’re looking for me for?”
Bess Camp laughed on the other end of the line, “It’s no big deal, just wanted to ask Ms. White if you remembered our appointment?”
“Engagement?” Christine White froze, then immediately remembered, nodding her head lightly, “Remember.”
“Well then, I’m going back home.” Bess Camp said.
Christine White was surprised, “Back home? When?”
“Five days.” Bess Camp gives a time.
Christine White bit her lip in thought for a few seconds, “Is it that urgent?”
“I’ve finished the business I came to C City for, I had planned to leave in half a month, but my grandmother was sick two days ago, so I decided to go back earlier, Ms. White can you come with me in five days?” Bess Camp asked.
“Five days from now. …” Christine White chewed up her fingers in a tangled mess.
Bess Camp also heard the hesitation in her tone and let out a light laugh without pushing her, “Tell you what, how about you think about it for these five days Ms. White, and when you’ve thought it over, give me your answer?”
“Good.” Christine White answered shyly.
The call ended and she set the phone aside.
Aunt Lucy poured her a glass of water, “Ma’am, is that Mr. Bess Camp from The Camp Family overseas?”
Christine White nodded as she took the glass of water, “That’s him.”
“What’s he calling you for?” Aunt Lucy was curious.
She couldn’t hear the contents of the call, but by the hesitant, hesitant look on Christine White’s face, she knew something was up.
Christine White took a sip of water, feeling a little light headed, “He wants me to do him a favor out of the country.”
“Go abroad?” Aunt Lucy froze slightly, then said with a serious expression, “Sir won’t agree to that.”
“I know, but I already promised Bess Camp I’d go with him in the first place, and since he did me a favor, I can’t say no.” Christine White scratched her hair in annoyance.
Aunt Lucy looked at her, “Then it can’t be helped, Mr. is definitely not going to let you go abroad with someone, or a man, not to mention that at this juncture now, Owen Dong hasn’t been captured yet, what if you go abroad and are targeted by Owen Dong? Even if Mister’s ability is great, there is always something you can’t reach abroad.”
“I know, that’s what I’m struggling with.” Christine White put her glass of water down and leaned back wearily against the pillows, her eyes lightless as she stared at the television on the opposite wall.
“The time I agreed to go abroad with Bess Camp, by all rights, should be early next month, by that time Baird should have already settled everything, so there is no place for me to go abroad without any concern, but I never thought that Bess Camp would actually have to go back early, and it also happened to be the time that Baird arrested Owen Dong. ”
It was because of this concern that she had just hesitated to go with Bess Camp.
She’s just afraid that, like Aunt Lucy said, if she leaves the country at this particular time, she’ll be targeted by Owen Dong and thus cause trouble for Baird Lane.
“This Mr. Toki is really something too, I don’t believe that he doesn’t know about The Lane Family’s situation with the Dong family, and for him to let you leave the country at this time of the year, I wonder if he’s not unsettled.” Aunt Lucy complained.
Christine White smiled, “Well Aunt Lucy, don’t get any ideas, he’s sick from his grandmother and that’s why he’s asking me to make this trip with him early.”
“Go with who?” Baird Lane’s voice suddenly came from the doorway.
Christine White’s smile tightened and she shook her head quickly, “Nothing, I was just talking to Aunt Lucy, right Aunt Lucy?”
She gave Aunt Lucy a secret wink.
Aunt Lucy would have coughed softly and smiled sardonically, “Yes sir, we were talking about what’s on TV.”
“Yeah?” Baird Lane narrowed his eyes skeptically and stepped toward them.
Christine White saw him getting closer and closer, picking at her fingers sheepishly, she busied herself with changing the subject, “By the way Baird, what brings you over here, didn’t Assistant Gates just ask for you for something?”
How could Baird Lane not see this look of her running away from something, and after his eyes sank, he didn’t tear her down and went along with her words, “Leo Bort caught it, so I came over to ask you if you want to go see him?”
“What do you mean?” Christine White’s demeanor changed and excitement erupted in her eyes, “Leo Bort caught it?”
“Well, the man has been brought back.” Baird Lane lifted his chin.
Christine White lifted the covers and was about to get out of bed, “So what are we waiting for, let’s go.”
She couldn’t wait to prod.
Baird Lane’s face darkened as he watched her hurry without even putting on her shoes, “Put them on!”
“Huh?” Christine White froze.
Baird Lane held back his patience and pointed to her foot.
Christine White followed and looked down, her white feet were on the white tiles, her toes were frozen red, and she was acting as if she didn’t feel a thing.
“Uh … Sorry, I’ll put them on in a minute.” Christine White bent down and dragged her shoes out from under the bed and put them on, then went to the restroom to wash her hands, and when she came out, she looked at Baird Lane with burning eyes.
Baird Lane rubbed his brow and turned toward the door.
Christine White saw this, squeezed her palms, and hurried to follow.
Leo Bort is being held by Baird Lane in what used to be The Bort Family cottage.
It was Christine White’s first time here, and she stood in front of the villa’s door, looking up slightly to survey the villa, which looked a bit old, and couldn’t retract her gaze for a long time.
It wasn’t until Baird Lane spoke that she lowered her head, making it impossible to see the expression on her face.
“This villa … How long has it been there?” Christine White asked in a voice that meant nothing.
Baird Lane gave her a look and answered her, “Over twenty years, this area is an old cottage neighborhood.”
“More than twenty years …” Christine White whispered the number, then a few moments of anger spilled out of her eyes, “That means Leo Bort bought this villa with … with his original wife to buy it?”
Baird Lane heard this and about understood what she had in mind, his thin lips quirked, “Yes.”
“Heh!” Christine White mockingly laughed, a great anger rose up in her chest, her chest rose and fell violently, “Really good job, buying a house with the original wife and ending up living in a daughter born by a third party with a third party!”
On what grounds?
Why should her own mother’s house be a bargain for Molly Bort with Molly Bort’s mother!
This is a score she must settle on Leo Bort, definitely!
“Okay.” Baird Lane took one of Christine White’s hands and squeezed it gently, “Don’t get upset, it’s not good for the baby.”
“How can I not be angry.” Christine White clenched her fists in a death grip, they were trembling from so much emotion, and she gritted her teeth in hatred, “Baird, if it was you, and your father had betrayed your mother, found a third party, and let the third party and illegitimate child live in his own home, would you be happy?”
Baird Lane’s thin lips pursed and he didn’t answer.
Christine White shrugged off his hand, “Look, your silence says it all, you’re not happy either so how am I supposed to calm down when it’s clear that everything that Molly Bort and her mother and daughter enjoy should be mine and my own mother’s, but just because her mother was a third party, it got my mother killed in a car accident, and it left me stranded in The White Family …”
At that, she tilted her head and sniffled, holding back the tears, “I’m not happy, Baird, I really am!”
“What do you want to do?” Baird Lane looked at her deeply.