She looked at the man next to her. Enrico held her hand, with a faint curve at the corner of his lips, and a relaxed look between his brows.
“Why did you bring me here?” she asked.
“Huh?” Enrico seemed to have not expected her to ask this, looked down at her and smiled, ‘Of course I brought you here for breakfast, the xiaolongbao here are the best.’
After saying that, Enrico led her to the steaming hot stall. There were just a few tables placed by the roadside, and some people were already eating.
The shop was run by a husband and wife, and they were both busy. When they saw them approaching, the owner immediately came up to them, speaking with an old The Capital accent, “Sir, madam, what would you like to eat?”
“The signature dish on your menu.”
Enrico didn’t bother to order directly, and holding Paige’s hand, he sat down at an empty table.
Paige looked at the city gate over there, her lips pursed tightly.
Enrico took out a handkerchief and carefully wiped the table, polishing the piece in front of Paige until the lacquer surface was shiny.
The owner quickly placed a basket of soup dumplings and a basket of crab roe buns on the table, and then served two bowls of steaming soy milk.
The soy milk was served in a large bowl with a blue rim. Enrico picked up a spoon, added two spoons of sugar and stirred it, “What are you looking at?”
he asked nonchalantly.
“…”
Paige didn’t believe that Enrico had gone to all the trouble of traveling halfway across the city just to have breakfast with her.
She looked back at him, and Enrico pushed the bowl in front of her, ‘It’s got the sugar in it, drink it, it’s freshly squeezed soy milk.’
Paige took a spoonful and dipped it into her mouth, but it tasted bland.
Since Enrico had brought her here, she was afraid that no matter what she did, it would be too late.
“Try this soup dumpling again.”
Enrico smiled and added another soup dumpling to her plate, warning, ‘Be careful, it’s hot.’
Paige looked at the soup dumpling with its thin, translucent skin, pressed her tongue against her palate, took a breath, and looked at Enrico, ‘I need to talk to you.’
“Go ahead,” Enrico gazed at her, his gaze tender and lingering.
Paige wanted to say something, but she didn’t know where to start, and she didn’t know how to make the “JT” in front of her accept her terrible arguments.
She thought of Kevin and asked, “Do you believe me?”
Kevin and Nick were hypnotized, but they still had an inexplicable trust in her, and Enrico should have a deeper trust.
Upon hearing this, Enrico smiled and put down the chopsticks in his hand, “What kind of answer do you want?”
“…”
Paige was confused by his rhetorical question.
He didn’t answer according to the norm…
Enrico looked at her stunned expression, and the smile in his eyes deepened as he said, “Hazel, between a man and a woman, trust is not important, what matters is that the two of you are together.”
Paige stared at him, and before she could say anything, someone next to her shouted, “So many people, so many people have arrived! Is something else going on?”
Paige suddenly felt a sense of panic. She turned around and saw a large group of people appear around the corner.
It was the Folsom family.
They had arrived as promised.
At the head of the group were the three siblings of the Folsom family.
The Folsom family had come out in full force, striding towards them, and they were leading a number of horse-drawn carts with the injured and bound JT members. One of the carts should be carrying her Gabriel.
The commotion was so loud that it kicked up a cloud of dust.
Passers-by couldn’t figure out what was going on and stopped to watch from the sidelines.
Brangelina and Blanca were at the front of the group, but gradually their pace slowed.
They saw Paige sitting on a roadside stall.
Paige looked at Enrico. With all the commotion behind them, Enrico didn’t even turn his head, calmly picking up a soup bun and placing it between his thin lips.
As if he hadn’t heard anything.
Suddenly, a loud and orderly sound of footsteps came.
Paige looked up and saw that on the towering city wall, people rushed up from both sides at once, and countless gun barrels were pressed down, aimed at the Folsom family.
“…”
The Folsom family stopped in place.
The horses stamped in place.
Enrico sat there, chewing slowly, and even picked up a bun for her.
“Close the city gates!”
A shout from atop the city walls was followed by the appearance of two groups of people at the bottom of the city walls, who closed the two red gates inward.
Some of the Folsom family members were greatly shocked by this sight and subconsciously charged forward.
A volley of gunfire from atop the city walls stopped the Folsom family members in their tracks.
The sound of gunfire was like thunder, and the ground in front of the Folsom family members was full of bullet craters, sending up countless plumes of dust and smoke.
The passers-by were so frightened by the scene that they fled, including the husband and wife who owned the stall.
“Bang!”
There was a loud noise.
The city gate slammed shut in front of the Folsom family, blocking their way.
Enrico frowned unhappily as he looked at the soot on the table and put down his chopsticks, “It’s dirty, we can’t eat it.”
The city gates were closed at the worst possible time, just when the Folsom family wanted to leave the city.
It was done to show her.
Paige looked at Enrico in front of her, through the shadow of his gaze at JT. “You replaced the original people guarding the city.”
JT’s forces guarded the city gates on all sides, and no matter what, they would not easily hand over the control of the city gates to the hands of a hypnotized person.
Unless, Enrico used the plot again JT’s underground forces in The Capital, and unexpectedly took these people down.
She controlled JT’s core members, and no one was watching his every move, and he took advantage of the situation-
taking control of the four gates of the city.
Paige suddenly realized something: from the moment Enrico was hypnotized, the owner of this city was no longer JT’s forces.
“Hmm,”
Enrico admitted frankly, his eyes staring deeply into hers behind his glasses. ‘I originally thought that the people guarding the city were all from the Presidential Palace, but now I realize that there are many things about this city that I don’t know, and it’s especially interesting.’
Time seemed to have suddenly come to a standstill.
The Folsom family didn’t move, just looked at Paige, and Blanca looked at her with concern.
Suddenly, from nowhere, two teams of gunmen appeared and rushed towards the Folsom family.
Paige’s breathing tightened, and she stood up from the bench, her hands being held down on the table by Enrico.
He sat calmly, his palms covering her soft hands, his voice low and smiling, “They’re going after you, and I won’t move them for the time being. I’m just looking for someone.”
“Looking for someone?”
Paige was puzzled.
The two groups of people rushed into the Folsom family and lifted the curtain on the carriage to take a look.
The carriage contained the injured, JT members, a dazed Rafael, and Gabriel, who was yawning in his arms.
The curtain was raised and lowered, raised and lowered.
Suddenly, someone shouted, “I found her! I found Hazel!”
After this shout, Paige distinctly felt Enrico squeeze her hand a little tighter, and her heart skipped a beat.
He really already knew that she was just the fake Hazel.
In this chaotic script where JT’s forces could not stop the lie in time, Enrico, or JT, became its new owner.
“There really is another Hazel.”
Enrico looked at her deeply, then stood up from the table, still holding her hand, “Let’s go, come back with me.”