Florence’s heart skipped a beat. She looked at Ernest with her twinkling eyes.
She hadn’t had time to tell him about it.
“You didn’t know it yet?”
Theodore looked at Florence in confusion. He didn’t expect that Florence had not told Ernest about it.
He wondered if Florence wasn’t in a hurry to marry Ernest.
Theodore was anxious.
He hurriedly explained with a smile, “Flory’s parents and I have discussed. You are ready to get a baby. Hence, it’s better to get married before giving birth.
“So we’ve planned to prepare a wedding for you. You need to decide the wedding date. The sooner, the better, of course.”
Theodore didn’t urge them evidently, but his words sounded so.
Upon hearing it, Ernest was surprised, looking over at Florence.
Florence blushed in front of all those people.
She whispered, “I only knew it just now. When in the vault, I didn’t have time to tell you yet.”
Ernest instantly understood. So Florence was trying to tell him about this matter back then.
However, Theodore came over and interrupted her. He brought up the subject before Florence could.
Ernest stared at her, his bottomless eyes seemingly about to engulf her.
He asked in a mellow tone, “Are you willing to get married now?”
His voice was quite gentle with nervousness and expectation.
Florence looked at Ernest with shiny eyes. Her slight bashfulness had turned into overwhelming happiness.
She had known it earlier and was planning to tell him and ask if he was willing to it.
However, he came to ask her first.
It seemed the final decision of this wedding was all in her hand. He was willing to marry her at any time as long as she was ready.
Florence felt as if she was floating in the cloud as being spoiled by Ernest.
She felt too happy to find any reason to hesitate, so she nodded quickly. “Yes, I am.”
Ernest’s pressed lips curled up into a smile in surprise.
He bent over and pecked on Florence’s forehead.
He was too gentle.
Florence’s heart trembled. She blushed. Nestling in his arms, she felt so touched.
“Great. Congratulations!”
“Let’s get prepared. I’ll go to the Fraser Mansion for the proposal. We should invite Florence’s parents over. Then they can also attend the wedding.”
“I agree. Let’s choose a good day and go through all the procedures so Florence could marry into our family as soon as possible.”
The elders also chimed in with greetings.
Till today, they had all accepted Ernest.
Only Ernest could open the vault that was critical to the Turner family. They all wished Ernest could live long to keep the vault open and make the Turner family prosperous.
If Florence married into their family, it meant Ernest was safe.
It was a wedding that all of them expected and blessed.
Upon hearing their words, Florence blushed more. Her face was as red as the ripe apples.
She couldn’t suppress her joy at all.
She had been waiting for this day for a long time. She had received blessings from her parents and the Turners. Then her wedding with Ernest would be held soon.
Everything was perfect.
Ernest looked at Florence intensely and tenderly as if she meant the whole world to him.
He asked, “May I go to your house for the marriage proposal in a few days?”
That was too fast.
Florence also confirmed Ernest’s attitude. She blushed more, and her heart pounded so fast as if was about to pop out.
She recalled last time when Ernest went to the Fraser Mansion for the marriage proposal. At that time, there were misunderstandings between them, and their families didn’t agree to it. His last proposal ended up so miserably.
However, this time would be different. After he went to make the proposal, he was literally going to marry her.
Florence felt so excited and delighted. Biting her bottom lip, she nodded shyly.
Ernest’s smile became brighter. He held Florence’s petite body in his arms.
Everything was ready. All he needed to do was to marry her.
Soon, Ernest chose a day to visit the Fraser family, seven days later.
First, he needed time to prepare for the betrothal presents. Second, the vault of the Turner family was opened not long ago, so he needed to let the elders go inside to know its state and sort out the information.
If Ernest wasn’t there, even the vault was opened, it would automatically be closed in one day.
But the elders of the Turner family couldn’t wait any longer. To calm them down, Ernest took a few men inside to sort it out. Then the elders could study the information inside.
Not everyone could enter the vault, though. Theodore needed to make selections.
In the end, Theodore decided to let the Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Elders go into the vault first.
There were eight elders in the Turner family in total. The eldest one, Aldrich, had been abolished because of Benjamin’s matter. Hence, the first elder was still vacant.
The Seventh Elder Keenan wasn’t interested in such matters. Hence, he didn’t even bother to go. The Eighth Elder was powerless. Theodore didn’t trust him, so he was filtered out.
However, the Second Elder, Finley, was unhappy.
With a darkened face, he said, “Master, I’m the second oldest elder, the lead of all elders now. This is the first time for the elders to enter the vault. I should go.”
Theodore looked calm as if he had prepared the answer long ago.
“Finley, you are good at fighting. All the forces of the Turner family are under your command. You’re doing a good job. But the most important in the vault are books and documents. We get in this time for sorting out the documents, which isn’t exactly your specialty. Even if you go with us, it wouldn’t be of much help.”
His words sounded reasonable.
Finley was a warrior. He wouldn’t find it interesting to read those materials.
However, the elders were about to enter the vault, so there would be more than books and documents in there. There were also countless treasures. Besides, those written materials were also something confidential to their family.
If he couldn’t enter, he would definitely miss a lot of essential things in the family.
It wasn’t relevant to his specialty. Instead, it was about the authority to access the family secrets.
Finley realized it, and so did Theodore.
However, Theodore wasn’t willing to let him enter. Besides the so-called reason he mentioned, he did it on purpose.
Theodore was in defense of Finley. He also wanted to suppress Finley’s status by forbidding him to enter the vault this time. He tried to promote his trusted elders, which were those four who could go in.
However, Finley was in charge of the Turner family’s force of arms, which was powerful. He was righteous with his own opinions and ways of doing things. He wasn’t obedient to Theodore on everything.
Theodore wanted to suppress Finley and even abolish him.
Finley realized that, but he wouldn’t just sit and watch without doing anything.
After analyzing the situation, he turned to look at Ernest.