His cell phone started ringing as soon as he returned to his office. He looked at it and realized that it was Ste calling. He nced at Eli, went out of the office, and answered the call in the meeting room next door, “What’s wrong?”


    “Give me Eli’s number,” Ste Grace said anxiously.N?vel(D)ra/ma.Org exclusive ? material.


    He could already guess her intention.


    “Ste, mind your own business. You are pregnant now,don’t exhaust yourself.Don’t worry about Eli. I have told you that I love her, and I am more concerned with her safety than you are,” Sean Yaleman said sternly


    “If you’re worried about her safety, then you shouldn’t have contacted her again. Are you giving me the number or not?” Ste said forcefully.


    “Since she is already a target, do you think it would be safer to let her roam around freely or to keep her by my side?” Sean asked.


    “It’s safer to keep her by my side,” Ste blurted out.


    “She came back to look for the murderer who killed her mother. What do you think she will do when she’s with you? Besides,she’s a straightforward person. She would have contacted you earlier if she wanted to. She wouldn’t have waited until now. Ste, enough is enough. I assure you that I would not let anything happen to her as long as I am alive. I still have some work to attend to. Be careful withBemy too,” Sean directly hung up the phone.


    Ste was anxious, worried, and frustrated.


    Her men could protect Eli in secret, but Sean took Eli away with his men.


    “Madam, what should we do now?” Lte asked Ste.


    Ste took a deep breath and called Sean again.


    “What now?” Sean was impatient.


    “I’ll send someone to protect Eli. Otherwise, I’ll be worried,” Ste requested promptly.


    “Do that if you wish. Anyway,you have already achieved your goal. Christian will resign as the Finance Minister today. Don’t go too far. Christian will do anything if you cross the bottom line. I wouldn’t be able to protect you forever.”


    “I know what I’m doing, and I hope you do as well. I’ll hang up first.I’ll call you after I find someone capable enough to protect Eli,” Ste said and hung up the call.


    Sean kept his phone in his pocket and walked into his office.


    Eli was ying some games on theputer. She nced at him.


    She noticed that he wasing in and out of the office. She could guess that he washiding some secret calls from her.


    She didn’t want to listen to them anyway.


    Gossiping was her hobby. However, Ste hadalways told her the more secrets she knew, the sooner she would die.


    In fact, she didn’t know many secrets. However,she dared not listen to secrets anymoreafterher parents died.


    Sean walked behind her and put his hand on the back of the chair. He looked at theputer and said, “Why are you ying this game? Are you a child?”


    “Stay away from meif you do not wish to get addicted to this game,” Eli saidzily and looked at him, “Do you need to use theputer?”


    “It’s alright. I don’t need it for the time being.Let me know if you have any preferences for your formal wear, I’ll ask them to make the clothes for you,” Sean said. He then took a pile of documents, sat opposite across her, and started reviewing.


    Eli looked at him.


    He concentrated on reviewing the documents and his serious look was quite handsome.


    She recalled when she was the representative of thenguage ss in middle school. Sean had never submitted his homework, which pissed her so much that she almost cried. She then thought of a solution. She would do homework in two copies, each with their respective names. Ever since then, she never had to ask him for hispleted homework or get scolded by the teachers.


    When did the rebellious student be such a good student? She, on the other hand, had already lost track to study amid a chaotic life. She sighed, supported her chin with her hand, and looked at him.


    He looked up at her and asked, “Why? Are you bored?”


    “Sean, when will you be inspecting your subordinates?” Eli asked tentatively.


    “I’ll have to arrange it with my assistant. He will inform me ordingly once the arrangements have been made. However, there are a lot of soldiers in the army currently and it will take some time to inspect them one by one. Do you want to join the inspection?” Sean read her mind.


    Eli nodded,“Don’t you have your confidants? I could just watch you inspecting them.”


    “That is confidential,” Sean exined.


    “What if I want to have a look at them?” Eli asked tentatively. In fact, she didn’t have high expectations.


    “Okay, I could try to arrange it in private.In exchange, you’d have to listen to what I say,” Sean said helplessly.


    Eli didn’t expect him to agree to it all of a sudden. She smiled and praised, “You’re quite reliable.I’ll give you theputer.”


    “What would you do if you give it to me?” He was afraid that she would feel bored.


    “I’ll just y them on my mobile phone. I realized recently that mobile games are quite interesting,” she said. She stood up, only realizing that she had only yedputer games because she didn’t have a mobile phone at that moment.


    Sean had no choice but to hand his mobile phone to her, “You could use mine first but don’t get it infected with virus.”


    Eli took his mobile phone, “I don’t watch pornography, where would the viruse from?”


    Shey down on the sofa.


    Sean turned around and looked at her, “Which brand do you like? Apple? Or Samsung?”


    “Apple. That’s my previous phone. It’s quite smoothwhen I y games on it,” Eli said.


    Sean called his secretary and said, “Get me two iPhones.”


    “It’s best if I could retrieve my original number too,” Eli reminded.


    “Prepare a new sim cardand reload it with a ten thousand dor credit,” Sean said.


    Eli frowned and sat up, “I want my original sim card, not a new one.”


    Sean hung up the phone and said aggressively, “I don’t think that you need to contact other people apart from me. Since those people were in your past, they should no longer appear in your future.”


    Eli gave him a perfunctory smile.


    She still had to rely on him to avenge her mother, so she decided to bear with his overbearingness for the time being.


    She had never nned to include him in her future either.


    She downloaded some games and yed them for a while. She was feeling kind of exhausted, so she closed her eyes, fall asleep in no time.


    Sean nced at her, picked up the coat that he had put on the hanger, and covered her.


    She was still sleeping soundly.


    He returned to his seat and started working.


    He had never experienced such peace of mind when he was working in the past.Not only did he feel contented, but his productivity was also enhanced with her presence.


    Eli’s phone rang. Sean didn’t have time to mute her phone. He immediately walked towards her.


    Eli subconsciously thought that it was her phone ringing, so she took it and ced it beside her ears in a daze.


    Ste’s voice could be heard from the other side,“My people are on their way to the President’s Mansion. They will arrive at around 8 p. m. Please make the necessary arrangements. By the way, don’t tell Eli that they are my men.”


    Eli opened her eyes, aplex feeling shing through her eyes. She sat up, pondered for a while, and handed the phone to Sean.