“Okay.”
Mimi Beckett also hung up the phone, and before long, someone found Mimi Beckett and brought her back. Meanwhile, at the barbecue stall, Kimi Hall was reminiscing about the girl she had just encountered. She mentioned Bailey, was it Patrick Bailey? She was so beautiful, so sexy, was she Patrick Bailey’s girlfriend? She realized that she had never asked Patrick Bailey if he had a girlfriend from beginning to end. She had just assumed and sent message after message, but never received a reply. Did he have a girlfriend now? Was this her coming to settle the score? However, the girl’s eyes didn’t show any hatred or anger; instead, they were filled with sadness, boundless sadness, as if she wanted to entrust something precious to Kimi Hall, but in the end, she gave up. “Maybe I’m just an outsider,” Kimi Hall shook her head while tidying up the stall, but the sadness in her eyes couldn’t be faked. She really liked Robin Bailey. But from this moment on, she wouldn’t send any more messages to Robin Bailey. Let it go. However, she didn’t know that the next time she would meet Robin Bailey would be when she grew tired of Bianhai City and went to work in another city. …
The Beckett family.
“Dad, I’m back.”
Mimi Beckett seemed a bit listless, still feeling down from crying just now. Seeing her like this, Henry Beckett’s eyes filled with a bit of heartache. “Baby, come here.”
Mimi Beckett collapsed into Henry Beckett’s arms.
That’s how she used to be when she was little.
And now that she’s grown up, she’s still like this.
“Baby, Daddy has a favor to ask of you.”
Henry Beckett embraced Mimi Beckett’s head and spoke.
“What is it?”
Mimi Beckett asked with some confusion. She had never heard the word “favor” from her father before. In her memory, her father had never asked anyone for anything. He was a resourceful person.
“Can you officially be with that Patrick Bailey?”
Henry Beckett sighed with a bitter smile.
“Why?”
Mimi Beckett was taken aback. Why would he suddenly say this?
“This is Daddy’s task.”
Henry Beckett fell silent for a moment, but finally spoke, “Daughter, do you know how I went from being a poor boy to becoming the head of one of the three major families in Bianhai, with assets worth billions? It’s not because Daddy is amazing, but because Daddy met someone influential.”
“But the price is that Daddy must serve that influential person, and the order he has given now is for you to be with Patrick Bailey and attend a gathering in a few days. Daddy has no choice. If he disobeys the order, Daddy will die.”
He explained to his daughter.
This was his biggest secret, but this time he told his daughter.
But he didn’t mention the influential person.
That couldn’t be said.
“Daddy will die!”
Once again, like a thunderbolt, it resounded in Mimi Beckett’s heart. She never expected it to be like this. And now she understood why her father had become the way he was today.
“Daughter, don’t you like Patrick Bailey? Then be with him, and it won’t be Daddy forcing you.”
Henry Beckett grabbed Mimi Beckett’s arm urgently.
“Yes, I like Patrick Bailey.”
Mimi Beckett forced a bitter smile. Yes, she liked Patrick Bailey. But last time, she betrayed Patrick Bailey, and now she had to use him again. But she had no choice; he was her father.
Father!
She couldn’t let Henry Beckett die!
So, she would use Patrick Bailey.
At this moment, she dared not say ‘love’ anymore because she felt she wasn’t worthy of that word.
“Okay, my good daughter.”
Henry Beckett hugged Mimi Beckett.
And Mimi Beckett just wanted to cry, to cry her heart out. But she couldn’t. After a long time, Henry Beckett left, leaving Mimi Beckett alone. She cried her heart out, as if crying was the only way to stabilize her emotions.
However, after crying enough, she gradually regained her composure. She picked up her phone and made a call.
“I… I… I want to meet you. Can we?”
She made this call to Robin Bailey.
Robin Bailey fell silent. He sensed that something was wrong with Mimi Beckett’s emotions, but he still replied, “Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, Mimi Beckett wiped her face and said, “My makeup is ruined. This won’t do. I’m going to meet the person I like. How can my makeup be ruined? And my eyes are all puffy.”
Step by step, she went upstairs to do her makeup. Even if it was the last meeting, she wanted to make sure she looked beautiful, although she felt like crying.
An hour later, Mimi Beckett went downstairs.
She left to find Robin Bailey.
She had arranged to meet Robin Bailey at the Grand House Cafe. When she arrived, she found Robin Bailey already there, sitting at a table and staring at her.
“Sorry, I’m late,” Mimi Beckett said, trying to brush it off, and then she sat down. She turned to the waiter and asked, “I’ll have a latte, what would you like?”
“I don’t like coffee,” Robin Bailey shook his head. “Just get to the point, what is it?”
“Okay,” Mimi Beckett nodded slowly, and then she said, “Can you be with me?”
Out of the blue, Robin Bailey couldn’t react for a moment, then furrowed his brow and asked, “Is that it?”
“Yeah,” Mimi Beckett nodded.
This time, it was Robin Bailey who fell silent. This time, he noticed many things. Mimi Beckett hadn’t been able to meet his gaze since she walked in, and she seemed more nervous than before.
Avoiding eye contact was out of fear.
Nervousness was also out of fear.
This indicated that Mimi Beckett had a trap in mind with her request to be together, or rather, Stuart Holt had discovered something about him and sent Mimi Beckett to approach him.
As for the lead to Alaric Styles, it was useless. Robin Bailey had someone look into it, but as soon as Alaric Styles left, the people there had already disappeared.
So, there was a conspiracy behind today’s event.
“Fine, I’ll agree,” Robin Bailey agreed.
“Ah… You reject me, and I’ll bear… something… But you agreed…” Mimi Beckett was a bit dazed. She had expected this meeting to likely end in failure, and she would find solace in that because she knew it was her father’s task, and Patrick Bailey might die.
But now Patrick Bailey had agreed.
However, for the sake of her father, she had to fight for it.
“Why… why?” Mimi Beckett asked, trembling.
“No reason,” Robin Bailey replied coldly.
Those words sent a shiver down Mimi Beckett’s spine, and she continued, “Can you accompany me to the gathering at the Tianhua Building in a few days?”
“I can,” Robin Bailey agreed again.
Indeed, as he had suspected, there was a trap involved, and it was at the Tianhua Building, Stuart Holt’s territory.
This time was different from before. Previously, Mimi Beckett had genuine feelings, and he didn’t want to use her. But this time was different; her words were a trap, and he would step into it willingly.
He loved traps the most.
Because what was a trap for others was not a trap for him.