“Woman, don’t be so arrogant in front of me. I am not Peter and will not indulge you, speak, watch your words, or don’t not know how you died.”
Edward had a black face, emitting a cold and appalling aura, a powerful aura oppressed Adriana some can not breathe.
But she still tried desperately to control herself, to play it cool and not be seen by Edward.
“Oh, you can ignore the law just because you are a soldier? A mere major is so arrogant, if you were a general, wouldn’t you even put the president of the country in your eyes?”
“You seek death!”
Her words angered Edward, and the man raised his hand and jammed it into her neck.
In that instant, Adriana only felt a pain in his neck and his breath choked slightly, but when his right hand shot out, a Swiss Army knife with a cold glint rested against his crotch.
“Really? Then we can try it! Vivian is someone I brought out, I should protect her, but I didn’t expect you to do such a bastard thing to her. Shouldn’t you be responsible for that and try to kill someone?”
Adriana forced herself to calm down, not wanting to be too soft on the matter.
“Killing you is just as simple as crushing an ant!”
“Mr. Henderson is really arrogant, do you think that no one in this world can control you anymore? Believe it or not, I will expose your matter to the Internet, so that you will be laughed at for the rest of your life?”
After too many things, Adriana has long been not that timid and cowardly little girl, encountering things even if they are afraid, will not show too obvious panic and timidity.
Besides, Vivian is her person. If she can’t even protect her own person, what’s the point.
“Is that so?”
The man raised his eyebrows, his pupils deepened a few points, and smiled contemptuously, “With you? Heh, Peter has long forgotten you, don’t tell me, you still want to rely on Peter’s power. Asking for trouble.”
“Yes or no, we’ll see.”
Adriana shrugged off Edward’s hand, furious, feeling that the man was really mean and shameless, and naive and unable to shake his position, which is the very tricky thing.
Turn around, put away the dagger, and walk towards the outside of the hall.
“Stand still!”
Suddenly, the man behind him shouted.
Adriana paused in her stride.
Behind her, Edward walked towards her, “I know you must have seen Vivian, this, give it to her.”
Adriana looked back at the check he was handing over, for two million.
“Hush money?”
“Think what you will.”
The man did not bother to explain.
Adriana hesitated for a moment and collected the check, “Don’t think this will put things to rest, Edward, I need you to apologize to Vivian, or … I’m not done with you.”
“You’re a man who can’t protect himself, talking to me about this, is that interesting?”
Edward gave a cold glance and left directly.
Watching him go up the stairs, at the corner, Sue Theresa also saw a familiar figure, Flora.
A long distance away, the two looked at each other from a distance, each with a complicated face.
Without saying anything, Adriana turned around and prepared to go.
Upstairs, Flora immediately shouted, “Adriana?”
Adriana’s back stiffened, the ‘Adriana’ really made her heart tired and exhausted.
Whenever I think of the day of Orco Mount, the frightened look in Flora’s eyes when she looked at her with the gun, I feel a stab of pain.
She stood still, not turning around, “Is something wrong?”
Ta-da-da-da
There was a shuffling of feet on the stairs and Flora shuffled down the stairs in her slippers, “Adriana, I have something I want to ask you.”
Adriana slowly turned around, her fair and delicate cheeks were already covered with indifferent look, “Say.”
“I …”
She bit her lips with her teeth and clenched her hands together nervously, wanting to say something.
“If you haven’t thought of something to say, then don’t say it.”
She had heard too many things that hurt her, and now Adriana felt it was better not to hear or think about it.
“No. Adriana, I just want to ask you, that day, did you really want to kill me?” She finally mustered up the courage to ask.
The pair of clear, bright eyes like a crystal ball permeated with water, flooded with luster, but more like an invisible knife, fiercely stuck in Adriana’s chest, caught off guard.
Adriana tugged her lips, the words came to her lips, but swallowed them.
Just shrugged, smiled slightly, turned around and walked away.
“Adriana? Adriana?”
Behind her, Flora kept calling out to her, but Adriana had already walked out of the hall and wouldn’t even turn her head back.
What is there to explain?
Trust, natural existence trust, no need to ask more questions.
Do not trust, then what is the need to explain.
Alvin saw her walk out and immediately followed her, but didn’t ask any more questions.
After the two got into the car, Alvin asked, “Where to now?”
“It’s getting late, senior, you can go back after you drop me off at the city.”
Running around all day, Alvin is also tired, she can’t keep selfishly dominating Alvin.
Not allowed.
“Stop it, the injury on the palm of your foot has not yet healed, the most important thing now is to rest well, understand?”
Alvin drove, slowly, “I’m your driver now, full-time, on call.”
Adriana pursed her lips and didn’t say a word.
The heart is full of heartache.
“Would you say that I’m living a particularly failed life?”
She leaned on the car seat, looking sideways out the window, the night can vaguely see a few bright stars, very bright, very nice.
“How can you think that? People are very ordinary, is it really living a glamorous life and having a wealthy family to be considered very good? Not really. Everyone has their own troubles, there are peaks, there are lows. And you, right now, are in a low period. You have to understand the truth that there is nothing worse than the present, what could be worse than the present?”
He glanced sideways, his clear gaze falling on Adriana’s body, his angular lips curving up in a curve, “What do you say?”
The bright smile, like the warm March sun, bathed the heart, illuminating her gray life, like a ray of light.
“Senior, you’re really good at comforting people.”
I have to say, she felt that what the senior said made perfect sense, or at least it would be very comforting to listen to.
“I’m just telling the truth.”
The two talked for a while and when they arrived in the city center, Adriana wanted to get off the bus and Alvin insisted on driving her to Vivian.
Adriana couldn’t resist Alvin, so she followed him to Vivian.
At the hotel, she met Vivian.
“Ms. Hale, why are you back again?”
Vivian asked as she climbed out of bed in her pajamas.
Adriana stood in front of Vivian and looked at her with a guilty look on her face before handing him the check, “Edward gave it to you.”
The one check, she glanced at, had many, many zeros on it.
But Vivian shook her head, “I don’t want it, that bastard’s stuff, I don’t want it at all.”
The stubborn and obstinate nature is a match for Adriana.