After that, Paige hung up the phone, leaned against the wall next to her, pursed her lips tightly, and didn’t know where to put her hand holding the phone for a moment.
Hopefully everything will turn out as she expects, and nothing will happen.
She remained calm. She called Enrico once, but never again, and instead of returning in the speedboat, she continued on the cruise ship.
It was half an hour before Paige saw Enrico’s call come in.
At that time, she was busy with work, having an online meeting with the members of Temple in Heaven.
In the gorgeous and quiet bedroom, Paige sat at her desk, in front of her was a laptop computer, connected to multiple people.
Nick is giving a presentation, and her phone, resting on the desk, vibrates. It doesn’t have a ringtone, but it’s loud enough to be heard.
Nick pauses.
Everyone on the call looks her way.
Paige glances down at the words flashing on the screen, hangs up without thinking, and looks at Nick with a blank expression. “Continue,” she says.
“Since Carrie married President Rafael, his approval ratings have been rising. The vote counting has already started in various cities today, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, we’re going to win this one,”
Nick said, “Sister Paige is back just in time to catch the president’s re-election ceremony.”
“It went so smoothly, without any twists and turns?” Paige asked, looking at Carrie in the video.
The background behind Carrie was the inside of the presidential palace. At the moment, she was sitting at her desk, copying something down with her head bowed, occasionally looking up to keep up with the meeting.
Next to her, there was a copy of the Temple in Heaven rules and regulations.
She hasn’t finished copying it yet.
“There have been twists and turns. That Thomas, who is competing with President Rafael, has been stirring up trouble. But now that the Presidential Palace, the Gustin Group, and we at Temple in Heaven are all on the same side, the people are on our side, and his tricks won’t work,” Derrick said proudly.
“Don’t be arrogant or complacent. We can’t let our guard down until all the votes have been counted,” Paige said, and the phone on the table vibrated again. She glanced at it, hung up again, and called out, “Carrie.”
“Sister Paige,” Carrie immediately put down the pen in her hand and sat up straight.
Carrie dressed very casually in the Presidential Palace, with a white shirt that accentuated her slender figure and long hair tied into a ponytail, looking very fresh.
“How are you getting along with President Rafael?” Paige asked.
“Very well. I have been assisting him, and he is quite satisfied with my abilities.” Carrie sounded exactly like someone from Temple in Heaven. After she finished speaking, she seemed to think of something, her gaze wavering for a moment, her expression becoming subtle, but she quickly recovered.
Paige looked at her, as if trying to figure out what had happened during these days of Carrie and Rafael’s marriage.
After going over some more official business, Paige ended the meeting.
There were 13 missed calls on her phone.
Paige looked down, picked up the glass of water in front of her and took a sip before picking up the phone and slowly dialing back.
This time, Enrico answered immediately.
“Paige, how dare you not answer my calls?” Enrico scolded her fiercely, urgently, his voice even breathless.
He panicked when she didn’t answer the phone.
If she didn’t answer the phone again, he was going to buy a speedboat at the marina and chase after her.
Paige remained calm and collected. “Do you believe that I dare to hang up on you right now?”
“…”
“The border is very different from The Capital. The scenery is pleasant, so you can take a look around.”
Enrico muttered angrily, then cleared his throat as if the harshness just now had never happened. “Are you angry?”
Paige lifted the glass of water in her hand, blew on it to cool it down, and then said, “I really don’t know what you’re thinking or what you’re doubting.”
Without saying a word, she disembarked and went to the border alone.
Over there, Enrico’s breathing calmed down.
Paige heard his low, sexy voice accompanied by the slightly distant sound of a ship’s whistle. “What else could I possibly suspect? From your conversation, I’ve deduced two things: one, you and Kevin are having an affair behind my back, and you’re planning to wait for the right moment to go off and live with him.”
“…” Paige choked on the water and almost coughed it up.
“But this one is impossible, after all, you love me so much.”
Enrico was there, analyzing shamelessly, ‘That’s two, the border hides your secret, a secret that makes you worry.’
“…” Paige didn’t drink water this time, but she almost choked.
Fortunately, Enrico was not in front of her at the moment, otherwise he would have seen her almost unbearable tension as she clutched the phone in her hand.
“But you are more composed than I thought,” Enrico said.
He secretly followed Kevin, but the guy didn’t do anything, and when he turned his head, he ran off to go fishing.
This can be analyzed in two ways.
One, there really is no secret; two, Paige has given Kevin pointers.
He leans towards the latter.
Paige lowered her head again and took a sip of water, deliberately sulking and saying, “Kevin asked me if I wanted to go back to the border to see Olivia and the baby dolphin.
“There’s a time to see that mongrel?”
“By time I mean when the situation in The Capital stabilizes, I’ll bring them over, where do you think I was going?”
Paige answered calmly, without a hint of a flaw.
Upon hearing this, Enrico paused on the other end of the line, his voice low, ‘Is that all?’
“What else? What secret do you think I have to worry about?” Paige asked in return.
Enrico fell silent, not sure if he was thinking about whether or not what she said was true.
This phone call made her feel like she was back at Rose Estate at the beginning, when she was playing games with this man every day.
Back then, he had already seen through her lies.
This time, she didn’t know if she could hide it from him.
She put down her water glass, stood up from her desk, and said, “Fine, you can stay there and investigate if you want, but as soon as the medicine is ready, you must fly back to me immediately.”
Her tone was casual, and she tried her best to act like she really didn’t care if he investigated.
Paige thought that she had played her part well this time, because Enrico really couldn’t find anything to say in reply, and after a long silence, he called out to her in a depressed voice, “Paige.”
“Hm?”
“Women who lie to their husbands will be reborn as dogs in the next life.”
“…”
Where is her whip?
Paige wanted to throw the phone away, but then she thought better of it, “I’m hanging up, I still have some work to do.”
I don’t want to deal with him.
“Wait, there’s one more thing,” Enrico said in a serious tone.
Paige’s breathing stopped when she heard his sudden serious tone. What did he have in mind?
“What?” She pretended to be calm.
“Transfer some money to my phone.”
“What?”
Paige thought she heard wrong.
“You left in such a hurry that your husband can’t even get a single bill out of his wallet right now.”
Enrico demanded money with justification.
In the past, he always took Jaden or his black card with him when he went out, and people who knew him at The Capital would never dare to mention money to him. But now, at the border, the situation was different.