The phone call was not from Tina, but from Joe.
Lily looked at the caller ID and answered, "Hello, Grandpa."
"Girl, where are you?" Joe said anxiously.
"I..." Lily looked at Eric subconsciously and answered, "I'm outside. What's wrong? Grandpa?"
"Outside? Are you not with Tina?"
"No… I didn't." Lily looked at Eric again and answered with a little guilty.
"Who are you staying with now?" Joe kept asking.
"I... I..."
"Are you with the Gu family's child now? You were together last night, weren't you?"
"How do you know?" Lily blurted out. She knew that the child that Grandpa Gu referred to was Eric. But the strange thing was that grandpa did not know who she was join the banquet last night. How did he know?
"Bastard! Look at yourself. What have you done?" Joe said angrily, along with the sound of pounding the table.
"Grandpa, is… What happened?" Asked Lily. It was the first time her grandfather had been so angry with her.
"How dare you ask what happened? Check today's morning paper!"
Hearing that, Lily's eyebrows trembled. She had a bad feeling.
"Go back to the old house now. Don't go anywhere else!" Joe said angrily, "Bring the child of Gu family back with you."
"I… I know, Grandpa." No sooner had she finished speaking than the phone was hung up.
Looking at the mobile phone in her hand, Lily was confused. What happened again? How could grandpa be so angry.
"What's wrong? What happened?" Asked Eric, seeing her depressed.
Judging from what she said just now, it was not difficult to guess that something must have happened. Although he could not hear the voice on the phone, he heard clearly what she said.
"I don't know." Lily was confused. "Grandpa asked me to read the morning newspaper today. He also asked me to go back to the old house and take you back."
"Let me go back with you?" Eric frowned.
"Yes." Lily nodded. She was also confused. "Grandpa knows that I stayed with you last night."
Eric's brows furrowed even tighter. Although his affair with Lily was agreed by her mother, Tina and Kerr, nobody else knew it.
And now Joe asked her to take him back, and his voice was very bad. It was obvious that he was a little disagree with the fact that Lily was with him.
At that time, he didn't choose to expose it completely because they were too young and he was afraid of causing the opposition of the Gu and Qiao family.
"Don't just stand there. Get up now." Lily nudged Eric who was lost in thought with her elbow. Then, she got up first and went to the bathroom to wash herself. Although her left hand was bandaged, she could still wash with her right hand.
Seeing this, Eric also got off the bed. He took the dress that Lily took off yesterday to the bathroom. Because there were no other clothes, she could only wear this dress back.
When Lily saw him walk in, she didn't show any shy expression, as if she had been used to it. He helped her took off her clothes and changed the dress.
After getting washed, they went downstairs.
When they came to the first floor, they saw Ellison in pajamas lazily drinking a glass of milk.
"Morning." Seeing them, Ellison said, "There are different kinds of sandwiches in the fridge. You can heat them."
"No, thanks." He went straight to the living room and looked through all the newspapers on the coffee table, but he didn't find the one he wanted to find.
"Where is today's newspaper?" He turned to Ellison and asked.
"It should be in the mailbox. I haven't checked it yet." Ellison took a sip of milk and was curious as he saw Eric was in such a hurry to find today's newspaper. "What's wrong?"
Without answering him, Eric went straight outside. Lily didn't follow him. Instead, she waited for him in the living room.
"What's wrong with him?" After a look at the back of Eric, Ellison looked at Lily and asked.
"Something happened." Lily answered with a frown.
"What happened?" "What happened?" asked Ellison confusedly.
"I don't know. Grandpa just called and asked us to read newspaper on our own. I think something bad must have happened."
At the sight of this, even Ellison frowned and stopped drinking milk, lost in thought.
After a while, Eric returned. His face was dark and frightening. He crumpled the newspaper in his hand.
"What happened?" Lily asked.
They walked into the living room. Joe was sitting stiffly on the sofa. When he saw them coming in hand in hand, his eyes twitched.
"Grandpa."
"Grandpa Joe."
They stopped in front of him and they spoke at the same time.
Joe didn't say anything, but put on a much more serious look on his face and demanded, "Get down on your knees!"
"Mr. Joe..." When Eric was about to say something, Lily secretly pinched his hand, stopped him, then let go of his hand, and knelt down obediently in front of Joe.
Seeing this, Eric knelt down too. Since he had decided to face it with her, he would never let her kneel down alone.
When Joe saw that Eric also knelt down, his eyes flashed for a moment, and then he looked at them with a very serious expression. "When did you get together?"
When did they start dating?
Faced with this question, the two kneeling people turned their heads at the same time and looked at each other. They didn't know the exact time yet. How long had the accident happened? When they fell off the cliff? Or the last time she was almost raped but was saved, or when she holding him to cry?
She could not remember clearly. She didn't have to deliberately do something. They were naturally together.
"Grandpa..." Lily turned to Joe. "I don't remember. I just know that every time I need him, he will appear in front of me. When I was raped in the school, it was he who saved me. It was he who helped me when I was knocked out to take indecent photos; it was he who saved me when I fell into the water and almost drowned; it was he who saved me when I fell into the cliff and at that moment, he even pulled me and fell with me..."
Lily's voice choked with sobs as she spoke, "I was misunderstood by everyone except him. And it was he who found evidence and cleared it for me. Grandpa, I fell in love with him. How could I let him go?"
She asked Joe with tears in her eyes.
Hearing her words, Joe frowned. Among all the things she said, there were many things he didn't know.
"Why? There are so many things you haven't told me?" He asked in a much softer tone than before.
"I don't want you to be worried. Besides, you were not in good health at that time." Lily answered honestly.
"Then what happened between you and Andrew?" Joe asked again.
"Grandpa, I treat him as my elder brother, and I call him 'brother' all the time. He also saved me once." Lily replied.
Without saying a word, Eric knelt down quietly with Lily and held her hand tightly.
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