“Natalie, it’s me, Dante. Hahaha, I stole my father’s phone to call you. My father is currently in a video conference.” Dante Milton spoke softly.
Hearing Dante’s voice, Natalie’s heart warmed as if she was basking in the sun in winter, and the corners of her mouth lifted subconsciously.
“What are you doing now? What are you going to have for lunch?” Natalie Wheeler asked with concern.
“I’m calling you now. I don’t know what to eat for lunch. I guess Dad will take us to a restaurant. Natalie, can I call you often?” Dante asked cautiously.
“Of course,” Natalie said and thought for a moment. “You’ll be discovered sooner or later with your father’s cell phone. It’s not safe. I’ll go to your house in the afternoon and put a new mobile phone in the shoe cabinet outside your door. You can secretly take it. You can call me when you’re not in class. I’ll register my cell phone number on it. That way, we can video call too.”
“Oh yeah, that’s great. Your idea is really wonderful. Then I’ll return the mobile phone now.” Dante said happily.
“Okay.” Natalie hung up the phone.
Eli Wayne was observing Natalie the whole time. She raised an eyebrow and asked, “Did the child call you by himself?”
“Yes. I didn’t expect that either.” Natalie’s eyes were full of smiles. “I have to go out for a while in the afternoon. Could you lend me your car?”
“You two really have a strong connection. That child likes you so much even though he had just met you.” Eli sighed. She looked at her son with a sparkle in her eyes.
Natalie took Eli’s hand. “You and your baby will not be separated.”
“Haha, I hope so.” Eli took another deep breath and walked toward him. She rubbed his tender cheeks and said, “If possible, I want to give him an ordinary home.”
Because all the people in the house were Sean’s men, Natalie did not say anything more. She had already said too much. Eli had always been too flamboyant and this could bring harm to her.
Natalie walked into the kitchen and cooked lunch. After eating, she drove Eli’s car out and bought a new SIM card and a new mobile phone. She entered her own number, saved it, and downloaded Whatsapp on the phone. The account’s caption was ‘Forever in my heart’.
After everything was done, she put the phone on silent mode and put it into her bag. She then drove to Jasper’s house.
Natalie got out of the car. However, she was afraid that she would meet Jasper Milton in the elevator. She wouldn’t be able to explain her presence, so she deliberately used the stairs.
When she got to the stairs on the ninth floor,
she saw four men standing at the entrance of the stairs, staring at Jasper’s house suspiciously. She had a bad feeling in her heart.
She deliberately walked to the house across Jasper’s and knocked on the door.
A beautiful girl opened the door. She looked at Natalie suspiciously. “Can I help you?”
“I’m here to collect the express delivery,” Natalie said.
“I don’t think we ordered any delivery?” The girl asked in confusion.
Natalie took a step back and cocked her head sideways to look at the door number. “Sorry, I got the wrong unit.”
She then went over and knocked on Jasper’s door.
It was Dante who opened the door.
He looked at Natalie in surprise. Just as he was about to speak, Natalie interrupted loudly, “Little boy, I’m here to collect the delivery. Are your parents at home?”
“Delivery?” Dante was puzzled and he looked at Natalie blankly.
Natalie entered the door, lowered her voice and said to Dante, “Close the door.”
Dante closed the door obediently. “Natalie, why did you come back?”
Natalie gave the phone to Dante and said, “Hide this.”
Jasper came out of the study and Natalie immediately stood in front of Dante, blocking Jasper’s line of sight. Because of her guilty conscience, her face was as red as a honey peach.
“Why are you here?” Jasper asked suspiciously.
“After I left yesterday, I realized that my earrings were missing. I guessed that I might have dropped them here, so I came to find them. By the way, I came up from the stairs and saw some people sneaking around the stairs. They were staring at your door. You’d better get someone to check it out.” Natalie said with emphasis.
If she hadn’t realized that something was off, she would have just left after leaving the phone in the shoe cabinet.
“You climbed the stairs to the ninth floor?” Jasper narrowed his eyes and looked at her.
Natalie was a little annoyed to see that he didn’t trust her.
How could he misunderstand her concern?
“I usually climb the stairs to lose weight. However, that’s not the main point here. The focus here is the fact that there are people watching you and your family. It’s your choice whether you want to investigate it. Other than that, please give me a call if you find the earrings. I still have some matters to attend to, so I’ll excuse myself first.” Natalie turned around.
Jasper sneered. “You are not that old, but you have a bad temper. You can find those earrings yourself. If you can’t find them, that means that the earrings are not here.”
Natalie looked at him and said, “Excuse me, I’m already 28 years old. I’m not young anymore.”
Jasper looked at her calmly and leisurely. “Ah, so you do know that you are not young anymore, and yet your temper is still so bad. Haven’t your past experiences and hardships taught you to be calm?”
Natalie pursed her lips.
She felt as if a fire was rising in her chest and her eyes were jumping with flames.
He was scolding her indirectly. He had a problem with her, so he couldn’t stand everything that she said.
She had become more sensitive toward criticism as she grew older. Her ego had also grown stronger.
Natalie was indignant. She felt the anger on her chest but she couldn’t find a way to vent her anger.
She had never worn earrings at all. It was just an excuse. She didn’t want to stay here any longer, so she turned around and went to the kitchen, pretending to be looking for the earrings.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Jasper appear at the door of the kitchen. She said in a cold voice, “Since the earrings are not here, I guess I didn’t lose them here.”
Jasper reached out and pinched her earlobe. Natalie felt a shot of pain in her ear. She subconsciously pushed his hands away and glared at him unhappily.
Jasper was holding an earring in his hand and handed it to her. “Dante said that there was a pair of earrings in my room. The children probably saw it and played with it.”
Natalie sneered.
She didn’t wear earrings at all. And she didn’t think that he would buy a pair of earrings for her, especially with the current status of their relationship.
As for the children, it was even more impossible for them to play with it. Ralph and Dante were both boys, so why would they play with earrings?
The earrings in his room were probably left by a woman whom he had a close relationship with.
Natalie took the earrings off and returned them to Jasper. “Sorry, these are not mine.”
Jasper frowned. If they weren’t hers, whose could it be?
Bettany’s skin was prone to allergies, therefore she did not wear earrings.
Natalie walked past him coldly and stopped. There were some words she wanted to say.
She glanced at Jasper. “Mr. Milton, you are in your prime and has been a widower for many years. It’s normal for you to have some physiological needs. However, there are two children living in such a small place. It’s not appropriate to do it at home. I suggest that it’s better to go to the hotel.”
Jasper looked at her with a sinister look. “What does it have to do with you?”