Annie hated it when people said things like that, talking about taking care of her like they were already prepared to take care of her for the rest of her life.
She leaned against the window, “Alonso, you’re not my possession, and no one here is, so you need to stop thinking that taking care of me is your responsibility.”
“Oh,”
Alonso responded indifferently, with an expression that said you can say what you like, but I’m going to do what I want.
“Alonso, the world is so big, don’t you really want to go out and see it?” Annie looked at him and asked seriously, ‘Maybe there is someone out there that you really want to take care of.”
“…”
Alonso held a bag of seeds in one hand and looked at her without saying a word, as if he was thinking about something.
“What are you thinking?”
she asked.
Alonso has always told her everything and never told a lie. He said, ‘I have known since I was five years old that I have to take care of you for the rest of your life, and I have never thought about anyone else.”
“So do you like me?” Annie asked directly.
“Yes,” the young boy also answered directly, without the slightest hesitation.
“Then I will marry the son of the Fentress family.”
“Okay.”
The son of the Fentress family is good, good at reading, and has things to talk about with her, unlike him, who has been forced to read since he was young and has no interest in it.
His expression did not change at all, and then he said, “After planting the roses, I will go to your father to cancel the marriage?”
Annie laughed at this, leaning against the window and laughing so happily that her face was brighter than the rising sun.
She was a quiet person, and rarely laughed like this.
“Look at you, not even the slightest fluctuation. If you like someone, you should at least be a little possessive, right?” She said with a sense of relief, “That’s good, I won’t worry that you’re being let down by me.”
“Disappoint?” Alonso didn’t understand what she meant.
Annie stood straight at the window, gazing at his puzzled eyes and said carefully, “Alonso, let’s untie.”
“What do you want to do?”
Alonso felt that she had become more and more strange recently, because she met the man who guarded the lake every day?
If she really likes him, it’s not a bad idea to recruit him, as long as he can learn how to take care of her without worries.
“Me…”
Annie lifted her eyes to the sky above the small courtyard. It was very blue, a clear blue, and snow-white clouds drifted slowly by. The sun shone into her eyes and she smiled, “I want to save someone.”
“…”
“I want to let him experience the true joys and sorrows of the world,”
she said.
Alonso looked at the determination in her eyes and his brows furrowed again. He felt a vague unease in his heart, as if something bad was about to happen.
…
In the evening, Annie quietly left the Davis family after leaving a letter.
She returned the engagement letter exchanged with the Singh family, and every word in the letter was a plea for the Davis family elders to understand, saying that she would call back.
When Annie arrived in The Capital, it was already noon the next day.
She was wearing a long pale-colored dress, with long hair, dragging a suitcase through the bustling city streets.
She stopped by the roadside, fanning the wind with her hand to ward off the hot sun in The Capital.
Across the street was a towering building with countless security guards, where an important meeting was being held.
After waiting for about an hour, people started to come out one after the other. Annie immediately caught sight of a tall figure in the crowd.
He was walking at the back or on the side, walking nonchalantly, and no one spoke to him.
He lit a cigarette as he walked, obviously carefree, but there was also a kind of suave charm cultivated by a member of a wealthy family, which made him not unpleasant to look at.
The people in front were exchanging pleasantries, seemingly his brothers, being praised by the higher-ups.
Someone looked back at him.
Jeremy looked up, smiled as he chewed on his cigarette, walked over, stopped the driver, and reached out to open the door for them.
Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and turned his head to look.
Seeing him looking over, Annie happily waved her hand at him.
“…”
Jeremy stood there, his expression completely frozen on his face, looking at her in disbelief, and even the carefree feeling he had was gone.
She waved her hand at him again.
Jeremy took the cigarette in one hand and smashed it on the ground, then lifted his leg and came running towards her.
Everyone looked at him in shock.
The car roared past.
Annie looked at him in shock, trying to stop him. Jeremy had already jumped over two guardrails in a row and rushed to her in a cloud of honking horns. The sunlight fell on his good-looking face, making him look like an immature teenager.
“Why are you here?”
He stared at her intently, his breathing uneven.
“Aren’t you happy that I’m here?”
Annie folded her arms behind her back and looked at him with a smile, her skirt flaring up in a beautiful arc.
After two seconds, after realizing that the person in front of him was real, Jeremy’s breathing became even more labored, and he stared at her, “Have you decided to go with me?”
“What do you mean go with you? I’m here to help you,”
Annie frowned.
“Then you’re going with me!”
Jeremy pulled her into his arms and hugged her, his eyes filled with ecstasy, his heart beating so strongly that she could hear it clearly, “That’s great!”
It was very hot, and the embrace was sweaty and sticky, not very comfortable.
But Annie couldn’t bear to break away as she listened to the sound of his heartbeat.
…
Jeremy took her to his car, bought her an ice cream cone, and reached out to brush the hair that had stuck to her forehead from the heat.
“You didn’t say you were coming, I could have picked you up,” he said, looking at her face, which had turned a little red from the sun.
“Traffic was easy, there was no need to pick you up,”
Annie had checked how to use the outside transportation, and it was very simple.
She sat in the car, eating the ice cream cone with one hand while she flipped through the file next to her with the other, spreading it out on her lap. After a few pages, she sighed, “The chaebols are really scary. They control the lives of most people in Country A, from work to life. It’s almost a monopoly. No wonder class differentiation is getting more and more serious.”
“You understand it already?”
Jeremy laughed at her serious expression.
“Look, isn’t that what real estate is all about? They use cheap labor to build houses for you, then sell them back to you at high prices. You also have to buy your appliances and furniture. You’re making money just sitting there.” Annie gave him a look as she bit into her ice cream cone.
“Real estate is very profitable, but I don’t control this part of it, so don’t look at me with those exploitative eyes,” Jeremy said, lifting his hand to wipe the ice cream stain from the corner of her mouth.
Annie was taken aback by his intimate action, and she pursed her lips, focusing her attention on the documents. “Then try to fight for it. Do you want a little power or…”
“I want the entire The Gustin family’s villa,”
Jeremy interrupted her.
Annie looked up at him.
“Even if I have a little power, someone will still be on top of me. I hate being controlled and threatened.”
Very much so.
He had been manipulated like a puppet until he was eighteen years old, and after that, he never wanted it again.