As the agent thought about this, she turned to Maria with a hint of reproach in her eyes. Maria silently lowered her head and didn’t dare say a word. She knew she was in big trouble when she got back.
Jane had solid evidence against Waylen, so he was eventually detained. However, the Stawarski family seemed to have used some connections behind the scenes, so Waylen was only held for a period of time. After investigating Waylen’s background, Jane organized public relations and completely suppressed the matter without leaking any information.
Maria sat in the car and carefully looked at Jane beside her before slowly speaking up, “Thank you, Jane.”
“Remember for next time to always tell your agent where you’re going,” said Jane calmly.
These things weren’t complicated for Jane to handle, but what worried her was that Maria’s guard seemed too low. “I know I made a mistake…” muttered Maria as she had been lectured all day long.
“But why did you go to the bar alone?” Suddenly, Jane remembered something and turned to look at her.
“I just wanted to have some fun… who would’ve thought something like this would happen…” replied Maria with a restrained expression on her face.
Jane understood what happened but didn’t ask any further questions since it seemed like there wasn’t much more information needed from Maria. She looked down at her phone and saw that there was an unanswered call from Patrick.
Jane felt surprised because after dealing with everything related to Maria earlier that day she forgot about Patrick’s call entirely. She intended on calling him back but then another call came through from work which distracted her attention away again until eventually forgetting about it altogether.
When Jane arrived home in the evening, she found Patrick sitting alone on the couch, calmly watching TV.
“Patrick, I’m back,” Jane called out.
Jane lazily approached him, but Patrick didn’t embrace her as he usually did. He sat there motionless, his expression indifferent.
“Why didn’t you answer your phone?” Patrick turned to look at Jane, his expression somewhat cold.
Although there were times when Jane missed calls before, she would always call him back eventually. But today was an exception.
Thinking about what happened a few days ago, Patrick’s brow furrowed even tighter.
Upon hearing his words, Jane slapped her palm lightly. How could she forget about this?
“I’m sorry, Patrick. I forgot,” Jane wrapped her arms around Patrick’s elbow, her tone somewhat coquettish.
Patrick grabbed Jane’s wrist and pulled her into his arms. “Who were you with today? Is that Prince bothering you again?”
Looking at Patrick’s expression, Jane blinked and reached up to stop him by the neck, deliberately saying, “His name is Joseph.”
Sure enough, when she mentioned that name, Patrick’s face became even worse and the force in his hand increased.
“Patrick, you’re hurting me,” Jane complained as she winced in pain.
Patrick loosened his grip slightly but kept his deep gaze fixed on Jane’s face.
Rarely seeing Patrick like this made Jane want to tease him a little more. “What if I really went to find Prince Joseph?”
However, Patrick didn’t say anything but his gloomy expression had already revealed what was going on inside of him.
“Jane,” Patrick said in a low voice with danger lurking beneath it.
Jane tilted her head and smiled. “How could I? I was at work all day today dealing with Maria’s situation when I got your call. Then something else came up and I forgot.”
Seeing no reaction from Patrick, Jane turned her eyes around. “Mr. Pansy, are you jealous?”
“Yes, I am jealous,” replied Patrick without hesitation which made Jane stunned for a moment.
“I don’t like it when you interact with other men especially…” However before he could finish speaking, Jane lowered her head and planted a kiss on his lips instead.
“Mr. Pansy, I love you.”
With intense gaze, Jane looked at herself reflected in Patrick’s eyes while softly speaking, “It has always been just you.”
This kind of Jane made people feel extremely moved.
Patrick raised an eyebrow slightly, embraced her waist, and tilted back slightly, his gaze fell on Jane’s lips as if he was expecting something.
Seeing this, Jane pursed her lips into a smile, and leaned closer to deepen their kiss. However, the mood was ruined by the ringing of Jane’s phone which broke their passionate moment.
Jane snapped out of it, breathless, saying, “I… I have to take this call first…” She pushed away from the man who still wanted more from their kiss, and took out her phone.
It was Tony calling. “Grandpa!” exclaimed an excited Jane as she answered the call.
On the other end of the phone, Tony’s cheerful voice came through. “My darling granddaughter, I’ve booked a flight to Guavo for tomorrow.”
“Really? That’s great!” Jane’s face lit up with a smile. “I’ll come pick you up at the airport tomorrow.”
“Okay.” Tony hung up feeling very pleased.
“My grandpa is coming to Guavo tomorrow,” Jane said as she put down her phone and straightened out her clothes. She turned to Patrick.
“Mm-hmm,” Patrick nodded lightly. “I’ll go with you tomorrow.”
The next morning, Jane woke up early with excitement bubbling inside her. Today was the day her grandfather would be returning home and she had been too excited to sleep all night.
“I’ll come with you to pick him up,” Patrick opened his door slowly and spoke in a calm voice. He knew how much Tony meant to Jane and he respected that bond between them.
Jane smiled and nodded in agreement. “Grandpa will be so happy when he sees you.”
Tony had always held Patrick in high regard, but now that he saw how well they were getting along, he felt even more at ease about their relationship.
As they drove towards the airport, Jane couldn’t stop talking about how long Tony had been on his global tour and wondered if he had enjoyed himself during his travels.
“We’ll find out soon enough when we see him,” Patrick teased as he listened to Jane chatter on non-stop beside him.