Not long after sending the message, he saw a figure walk out from inside.
Olivia was holding a long-haired terrier and being respectfully escorted out of the Lautners family’s front door.
A car was parked on the side of the road, and the driver opened the door to greet Olivia, who got in.
Olivia had lived a good life after following Paige for a few years.
Enrico slowly narrowed his eyes and looked coldly at the license plate. He observed it twice, and Olivia did not live at the Lautners family, but in another place.
This meant that Paige had not lived at the Lautners family for the past three years.
This discovery made him feel less bad.
Enrico turned and went into the bathroom, changing into the clothes that had already dried. Turning back out, he picked up the phone and called the front desk, asking them to prepare a car for him.
“Sir, the lowest we can rent a car here is 900 a day.”
“…”
Money again.
Enrico turned his head with a scowl and gave Gabriel a little wave.
Gabriel had already heard what he had said and immediately came forward, hugging his little school bag, his tone joyful, “You want money?”
“Take the money.” Enrico had already asked for it so naturally.
Gabriel clings to his little school bag. “You can have the money, but you can’t send me away again. You have to take me with you.”
Until he sees his mummy.
“You little sneak, you dare blackmail me?” Enrico looks at him.
“You can’t just take the child’s money and not play with the child. That’s not right!”
Gabriel holds his school bag and cautiously takes two steps back. He adds, “I’m so useful. I can even eat for free.”
Otherwise, with the way he spends money, he would have already slept on the street.
“…”
It is still quite good.
Enrico only pondered for a few seconds before walking up to the little guy, grabbing the back of his shirt and lifting him up, walking out of the way, just like a zookeeper carrying a red panda.
He has no need to be difficult with money, and he will spend all the money of this little spy first.
“…”
Gabriel was quite comfortable not having to use his legs to walk, so he didn’t say a word and obediently let himself be carried all the way out.
On the way, he met a waitress who gave him a free meal, and he tilted his head up to say hello to her.
…
The sun was setting.
The temperature at the border was still very high.
Olivia got out of the car with the dog in her arms, looked at a small two-story building in front of her, and sighed with some emotion.
Paige had just arrived at the border, and she didn’t want to be gossiped about with Kevin, so to avoid suspicion, she resolutely moved out and lived in this somewhat old building.
The building is so old that you can smell the decaying wood.
It was here that Paige spent her entire pregnancy.
She stayed by Paige’s side the whole time, and witnessed first-hand how Paige’s pregnancy reactions were so severe that she vomited everything she ate, even yellow water.
Even so, Paige was still planning the establishment of Temple in Heaven and searching for a cure for AS schizophrenia gene…
It wasn’t until after the baby was born that Paige moved to a house that was more comfortable for her and Gabriel to live in, and which she later used as a place to raise the guppies.
Feeding the guppies with blood.
She fed them until there was no blood left to squeeze from her fingertips.
It can be said that this small building was the most difficult place for Paige after the slums.
Olivia never wanted to come here, and every time she did, it was extremely difficult. Thinking about all the things that happened to Paige, her heart ached like it was being cut with a knife.
She only hires someone to clean the house regularly. Today, the cleaner called her, saying that there was some water leakage on the roof.
Coincidentally, she got the news that Gabriel had gone to be with Enrico, so she was at home with nothing to do. She came over to take a look.
Thinking about this, Olivia opened the door and walked towards the house.
As soon as the door opened, a light sound similar to a wind chime came from inside. A few empty birdcages hung from the ceiling of the entire hall, swaying back and forth in the wind.
It looks very clean, as if someone has been cleaning.
Olivia raised her leg and was about to walk in when a harsh screeching sound suddenly came from behind her.
She turned her head and saw a black car parked by the roadside. The driver’s door was slammed shut, and a tall man got out of the car.
Olivia was shocked and almost fell to her knees. “Young master…”
Gabriel was sitting in the back seat, being tossed around by the sudden braking. His little head was spinning.
In his daze, he heard Olivia’s voice, and when he heard it, he felt even more dizzy.
He buried his head in the leather seat and hugged his little head with his small hands.
Can’t see him, can’t see him…
No early education, no early education…
“Bang.”
Enrico casually closed the car door, looked up at the old building in front of him, and walked past the front of the car without expression.
“Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
The little dolphin noticed the stranger approaching and immediately started barking, baring its teeth and claws as it tried to advance.
Enrico kicked it away with one foot.
“Owwww…”
The little dolphin rolled a few times from the kick and was too scared to advance again, huddling on the ground with its ears hanging down in distress.
“Young master, why have you come?”
Olivia looked at the tall man in front of her, and for a moment, it felt as if she had returned to Rose Estate, to the years when the Gustin family’s villa was under their control. She became frightened without realizing it.
“Is this where you and Paige live?” Enrico saw the cage hanging inside the door at a glance.
He knew exactly what it was for, to save him.
He stood at the door, staring deeply, his chest aching with pain.
“Huh?” Olivia was so caught up in her own panic that she didn’t react for a moment. When she did, Enrico had already lifted his foot and walked into the house.
Enrico looked around upstairs and downstairs.
The small building maintained the traces of life it had once seen, with just two rooms, a study, and simple, sparse furnishings.
He had imagined that she, having come to the border, would be able to live a good life.
But she was actually living in a place like this.
After a few moments of looking around, Enrico stepped down the creaky wooden stairs.
“Young master, have some tea.”
Olivia had already recovered from her initial shock and quickly boiled a kettle of water and brewed a cup of tea with tea leaves.
Enrico pulled out a chair and sat down, crossed his legs, and asked coldly, ‘Why did she choose to live here?’
He let her come here back then, so that Kevin wouldn’t be unable to afford to even set up a decent house for her, unless she chose to herself.
“Miss said that this place most resembles Rose Estate, and the wooden staircase is similar as well,”
Olivia stood there respectfully and replied, and then thought for a moment and added, “Miss said that she used to think about how to leave Rose Estate every day, and then she realized that the thing she was most reluctant to let go of was also there.”
Upon hearing this, Enrico’s eyes became even deeper, and it was as if the whole person had been hit hard without warning.
It hurt.
He couldn’t say where it hurt, but it did.
He looked up at the several empty bird cages above his head and stared at them in silence.
Back in the slums, he was able to spend the night in the house where Paige had stayed, but here, he didn’t dare to take a closer look.
Because there were many places in this small building that made him feel uncomfortable.
At first, he didn’t understand, but now he understood.
Every place here that made him uncomfortable was the suffering that Paige had willingly endured for him.