Esther didn't know why she acted like this as clearly she wanted to have dinner with him.
Elijah turned around and strode away.
Esther stood there, motionless.
She looked at his back from a distance, suddenly her eyes were red. She sat down on the stone bench beside her, shedding tears.
Elijah's figure was finally out of her sight. He turned to the side of the avenue, stopped, lit a cigarette, stood there, and began to smoke.
The phone rang again and he answered.
"Young master, Miss Cole is in America now! LN Bar.”
His hand trembled as he quickly took down the cigarette. "LN Bar?"
"Yes.”
"I see!" His heart was thumping. It turned out that it had something to do with him. He was so confused that he could hardly compose his thoughts. He took out another phone, dialed.
Then, there came a joking male voice. “Elijah, what do you think?"
"It's you.” Elijah was relieved.
"What?" The one on the other side questioned immediately.
"Kattie is with you, isn't she?"
“Who is Kattie?"
"Evan Gray!" Elijah suddenly roared, “I won't give in!"
"Oh?! Is it? Then you’ll be in trouble!" Then came the banter of laughter, "If you are not afraid, you won’t be so nervous? Well, Esther buys it, doesn't she?"
"Damn you!"
"Well! I won’t live long. It's boring. If you don't take over, don't blame me for being cruel!" he threatened in a joking tone.
"You..." Elijah narrowed his eyes and calmed himself down. ”Threats won’t work on me! The person in that video is not me.”
"Oh! Elijah, I knew you were not that stupid! I'm right! You are qualified to be my successor."
"I'm flying to America now!"
"Welcome.”
Putting down the phone, Elijah went back. Unexpectedly, he did not see Esther. He looked around and she was nowhere to be found.
Esther walked out of the path on the other side and walked towards the exhibition hall again, but she didn't expect to run into another person there.
Elijah rushed over and he immediately calmed down as soon as he saw someone not far away. His suits and tie were all loose. His black hair covered his eyes. When he saw her, there was a smile on his face.
Esther, who was originally flustered, was more at a loss when he looked at her like this.
Elijah strode towards her with a bright smile, fixing his eyes on her face. Esther was in a panic, wondering why he smiled.
"Baby!" Elijah took her hand. "That is not true! That video is not real!"
She was stunned! Being shocked, she shook off Elijah’s hand, but he didn’t let go of her. There was the anger that had never before shown on her face. "Let go of my hand!" she snapped.
"Baby!" he whispered.
"Don't lie to me! I don't want to believe you.” She growled, “Don't think I'll believe your lies!"
"Esther, wait for me. I'll give you evidence when I come back!" He suddenly took her by the shoulder and kissed her on the forehead. “I'll go to America and come back with the evidence. Believe me! That's not true.”
Her heart raced uncontrollably. He had let her go and stepped back. “Wait for me to come back,” said Elijah.
With red eyes, she growled, trying to suppress something, "I'm not going to wait for you. I don't believe your words!"
"Esther, don't I deserve your trust?" He sighed for a long time.
"Then show me the evidence. I want to see the evidence now!"
"When did I ever lie to you?" he asked.
She was stunned — didn’t he deserve her trust? But that kind of picture came to her mind again. How could she pretend it never happened?
"Esther, there's no evidence now, but I'll give it to you. Give me some time." He spoke again, ”Wait, I'm going to America, looking for evidence!"
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...