Shifting away discreetly, she replied, “It was alright. But discussing this,
Mr. Douglas, seems inappropriate. We can remain silent if you don’t want to talk business. Also, you don’t need to be so close.”
Leonel’s voice was a hushed murmur. “You better hope your blind dates don’t work out, because I won’t let you be with anyone else.”
Alexis shot back, “Aren’t you the shameless one?”
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She gave him a chilly look and closed her eyes, but her expression softened once they were shut, losing the sharp, cutting edge.
She appeared more gentle, obediently by his side.
Leonel curled up, gazing quietly and greedily at her sleeping face.
He missed her too much and couldn’t resist gently touching her fingertips.
As Alexis slept, he cautiously held her hand, careful not to grasp too tightly.
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Only in vulnerable times like this could he catch a glimpse of her embrace.
Two hours later, the plane landed in Czanch.
Leonel had arranged a hotel room for Alexis, but she opted to go to the Evans family’s residence instead. “I’ll stay at Evans Gardon,” she announced.
Leonel reached for her hand. “Then I’m staying there too.”
She looked down, smiling faintly. “That’s funny! Why should they let you in?
It’s my great-uncle’s house. Go back to your hotel.”
Her words wounded Leonel deeply.
Everything he had since childhood came from the Fowler family.
Now, stripped of those privileges, he was merely the old Leonel Douglas.
Evans Gardon, once a familiar place, was now out of his reach.
The Evans family driver, oblivious to the rift, greeted Leonel. “Mr. Douglas, aren’t you coming?”
He replied with a melancholic shake of his head, “No, I’ll be at a hotel.”
As Alexis boarded the car, Mark, seated in the back, eyed her. “Did you really have a fallout with that guy? He looks madly upset.”
In front of her parents, Alexis could maintain a facade, but before her great-uncle, her defenses crumbled. “Great-uncle Mark!” she exclaimed.
As a child, she always turned to him first with her problems.