Chapter 452 Hey, You Wanna Save Face?
Perplexed, Danny asked, “Are you going to the black market, Elise?”
Elise glanced up at Danny while putting away her phone calmly. “Uh-huh,” she replied, before sitting down in the rocking chair next to her and rocking back and forth leisurely like an old man.
A while later, Alexander came back with his cell phone. He said indifferently, “I’ve gotten two tickets.”
“Yes!” Danny raised his fist in victory. He asked in surprise, “In that case, I can go with you two, right?”
“Nope,” Alexander replied harshly.
Danny was instantly filled with disappointment. Just then, however, a gust of wind suddenly blew past him, and he sensed someone flying past him in a supercilious manner.
The next second, a familiar voice sounded from behind him. “Miss Sinclair, here are the tickets that you’ve asked for. There are ten of them. Master Bryce said you can bring friends with you to the black market, and if the tickets aren’t enough, you can give the market manager your name so that the rest of them can enter,” the man said reverently.
As soon as the man finished his speech, Danny turned around and dashed back to Elise’s side with the speed of a nocked arrow, staring at the stack of tickets in the box with shining eyes.
Elise took the tickets. “Thanks for bringing me these. You didn’t have to come in person, though. Just let somebody run the errand for you next time.”
The man showed an acute sense of propriety. “Like I said, I’m honored to be at your service, Miss Sinclair. Well then, I won’t be keeping you any longer,” he said politely. Then, he turned around and left.
As soon as the man disappeared from the door, Danny jumped up and hugged Elise. “Oh, my God! What a fantastic sister-in-law I’ve found for myself! Black market! It’s the tickets to the black market! They’re so difficult to get, yet that guy gave you a stack of them!”
At the sight of the scene, Alexander’s bushy eyebrows snapped together, and he hemmed twice crossly. “Ahem! Ahem!”
However, Danny was totally oblivious to it. Wrapping his arms around Elise, he shook her in gratitude with all his might.
Alexander’s face darkened. He walked over to Danny right away, forcibly wrenching the latter’s arms away from Elise. Then, he said in a voice devoid of warmth, “It’s inappropriate to be overfamiliar with someone of the opposite gender, Danny.”
“What’s the problem with that? Elise and I are a family!” Danny argued obsequiously.
However, not even Elise could stand listening to the boy’s words any longer. She opened the transparent box containing the tickets, took a ticket out of it, and handed the ticket to Danny. “Here, take it.”
Danny waved the ticket in his hand, flaunting it in front of Alexander as if it were some precious treasure. “Look, Alexander! Now I can go to the black market even without you!”
Alexander shook his head before turning to look at Elise. He said with a note of tenderness and resignation in his voice, “Just spoil him all you want.”
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