Hearing the explanation from the butler, Amelia slowly put down her hands from her head. Even so, she could still feel her heart racing.
To have taken the wild beasts as his beloved pets itself was already ridiculous, not to mention that he had reared them in a free-range manner. It appeared to Amelia that Sawyer was possibly someone who was hard to get along with as what Kaiden had described.
Seeing that Amelia's face turned pale, Kaiden felt as if he had successfully revenged on her, "A pussy cat is capable of frightening you. Such a useless woman!"
Throwing a side glance in ensuring that the leopard had returned to the woods, Amelia sat back to the leathered seat in relief.
Then she glared at the man who was gloating at her and challenged him, "If you're such a capable person, why not you get down of the car and play catch with the pussycat?"
Kaiden's handsome face flushed. He mimicked Amelia's behavior just a moment before and glanced at both side of the car.
Seeing that the leopard had vanished himself in the woods, Kaiden turned around and said disdainfully, "This means nothing to me. Don't you think I'm as timid as you. Butler, stop the car now... Ah!"
Before he could finish his words, a bear came dashing in direction of the car window where Kaiden was sitting next to. With a slam on the window with its paw, he was so frightened to the extent that he could not help screaming frantically.
Amelia who was stunned at this scene, did not bother to laugh at Kaiden's timidity. In fact, she was too shocked to even come out with any responses!
Amelia was convinced that the so called beloved pets were all enormous in size and ferocious in nature. She felt like retreating at this moment.
She wondered if it was possible for her to change her mind. After all this, she did not think that she would still want to meet Sawyer in person and invite him for investment.
Right at this moment, the butler comforted them by saying, "Don't worry, every part of this car in particular the glass is unbreakable. I can assure you that the both of you will not be injured."
With that said, the butler shot a glance at Kaiden in frustration. While it was excusable for Amelia to be frightened since after all it was her very first time here, Kaiden had been living around here since he was small. There was no reason for him to be as timid as how he behaved at this moment.
He wondered if this would constitute a shame in front of his own fiancee.
Even Amelia who had came back to her sense asked, "Eh, aren't you the owner here as well?"
Hearing this, Kaiden glanced at Amelia and asked questionably, "Who told you that I'm the owner here?"
"You the one told me this." Amelia replied affirmatively, "Had you forgotten that you once told me that you owned a few mansions on this island."
Kaiden was chocked on his saliva. Amelia was confused upon seeing his face turning red in an instant.
The butler who was at the front driving had been listening to their conversation all this while. He caught the embarrassed expression of Kaiden from the rear view mirror. He could not help thinking of one possibility.
He wondered if Kaiden had tried to flatter his fiancee by bluffing that he owned several mansions here.
But such a possibility did not make sense to him. After all, Kaiden was in fact filthy rich. There was no need for him to make such a lie.
Under the pressure of gaze from both Amelia and the butler, Kaiden could not help feeling embarrassed. He had no other choice but try to cover the lie, "You're such a stupid woman! I was just kidding. My cousin is the only owner of the mansion here!"
Hearing this, Amelia replied, "Oh."
Kaiden was furious as he felt that he had been somehow looking down by Amelia, "What the hell do you mean by 'oh'?"
Amelia took a side glance at him and said, "It means I get it now. It is your fault for being such a terrible learner or that your teacher had never taught you this?"
Kaiden was left speechless.
"Puff..."
The butler was laughing heartily in his heart upon hearing her reply.
The Lincoln was moving forward at steady speed. There were wild animals of varying sizes dashing out from the woods and approaching their car from time to time.
Unlike the shock she had suffered at the beginning, she had turned numb seeing the animals after some time. Eventually, she was excited over seeing the beasts. She gripped on the leathered seat where the butler was sitting on and yelled, "Uncle Handsome, hurry! Let's get going!"
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