Chapter 235
Ste got up from rence’s legs and then bent over cing softly the ice pack on his face on which
the finger marks still could be seen.
renceid his hands on his knees with fingers knocking on knees and gazed at Ste with his ck
eyes in silence.
Ste was disturbed by his stare, so she reminded, “Mr. Conrad, could you please close your eyes?”
“You looked at me secretly in the car for a long time, but I didn’t ask you to close your eyes.”
“….”
An annoying wretched man.
Ste increased her strength deliberately putting the ice pack on his face tightly.
rence’s expression changed slightly, but Ste withdrew her hand quickly right before he was going
to get mad, “I think it’s enough. It’ste. Mr. Conrad should have an early night. I gotta go.”
Ste turned around but her wrist was held by rence again.
rence showed annoyed, “Leaving so soon?”
“Or I should stay for midnight snack?”
“Good idea.” rence agreed and then took out his phone from the sofa. As he was dialing, Ste
stopped him in a hurry, “I was kidding, I was kidding!”
The wretched man never acted like a normal people.
rence pushed the ss on the table towards Ste, “Have a drink?”
Steughed with a sneer, “Mr. Conrad think I would fall for it twice?”
“I didn’t know you are a light drinker.”
Ste ignored him and got rid of his grasp, “I have to get up early tomorrow morning. Mr. Conrad, enjoy
yourself.”
As soon as she finished, she walked toward the door.
Watching her leaving, rence took a ss of Whiskey and leaned back against the sofa, giving a
slight smile with his thin lips.
When Ste came back to her own room, she found Sherry texted her asking if she arrived at Aqock.
Interrupted by what happened at the airport, shepletely forgot to inform Sherry that she had
arrived safely.
Ste called Sherry. They chatted for a while but Sherry discovered Ste mped up often while
talking, so she asked tentatively, “You met rence there again?”
Ste, “….”
How could she make a correct guess so easily?
Sherry had been used to the sudden appearance of rence.
She asked, “What’s the wretched man’s excuse this time?”
Ste shook her head, “He didn’t follow me here this time.”
She paused for a while and then continued, “I met Annie.”
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Sherry was shocked to hear that, “Why was she there?”
When Ste came to visit Cameron together with Emmett, Ste heard Annie’s parents talking that
Annie was put under house arrest in the Conrad’s Mansion.
In addition, Nathan told her that rence already knew they lost their first kid because of Annie.
Perhaps the Conrad’s family and the Perez family were afraid that rence would get to Annie, so they
tried every effort to send her away.
But unexpectedly, Ste met Annie at Aqock coincidently.
It might be fate.
The reason why rence came to Aqock was probably that he knew Annie was going to leave.
Sherry asked, “What does the wretched man want to do with Annie?”
“I didn’t ask him.”
“Whatever, Annie deserves whatever punishment for what she had done.” Sherry left the upsetting
topic and distracted Ste from it, “Where are you going to sleep tonight. Your aunt’s home?”
Ste answered, “It’ste, so I booked a room.”
They chatted for a while and then hung up.
Ste took her clean clothes into the bathroom to take a shower. After the shower, she was drying her
hair when she discovered a minor wound on her lip. It was scarred.
She came close to the mirror to check it but to find there was a bite mark beside the wound.
Crap. She easily figured out when did she get these marks.
Ste thought she should have pped the wretched man with greater strength.
…
Next morning, when Ste went downstairs after breakfast to take a taxi to Anqiao Street, she found
Nathan was waiting with a smile at the gate.
rence, the wretched man, was sitting in the ck Maserati behind.
Nathan lied in a serious tone, “Ms. Radomil, it’s the morning rush hour and it’s difficult to get a taxi. We
are going to the same ce as you do, so we can give you a ride.”
Ste yed dumb, “You are going to the airport too? Don’t you have business to do? Why do you
leave so early?”
Nathan, “….”
At this moment, rence rolled down the window, giving her an emotionless nce, and said, “Get in
the car.”
Ste curved her lips, thinking they have the same destination and the wretched man must mock her in
front of Ms. Anderson if she take a taxi.
Thinking of that, she opened the door and got in the car.
Seeing what happened, Nathen took a breath of relief. Only Mr. Conrad could handle it at such key
moment.
On the way, Ste ced her head close to the window viewing the scenery outside.
Compared to City N, Aqock was a small city, but it showed unique beauty in each season. In the winter,
the snow covering the trees were blown into the air asionally, falling in kes.
In a small city like Aqock, there was no morning rush hour as Nathan said. Before long, the car drove
into the Anqiao Street.
The creek flowing through the street was frozen. Most of the people in the neighborhood had moved
away and the gate of the ancestral hall was left open. The entire street was quiet, not as noisy as it was
when she moved here.
She concentrated on the street view for a while and then turned to ask, “Mr. Conrad, when will the
street be dismantled?”
“This May.”
Ste had thought that it would be dismantled right after the New Year’s Day, but now there was a few
months left.
It was good news. When there was less work at her studio, she could take Sherry and Chan here to
have a tour.
Soon, the car stopped in front of Dolores’ house.
When Ste walked to the door, she found rence stood beside the car as if he didn’t attempt to
come into the house.
Ste was surprised and asked unconsciously, “Mr. Conrad doesn’te in?”
rence answered tly, “Youe first.”
Ste pondered for a while and then took a step forward, but soon she turned around walking toward
rence and asked tentatively, “Did you get Ms. Anderson angry, so you don’t dare toe in?”
rence, “….”
He looked down at her, “I don’t have the gift of the gab as you do.”