"I'm buying your wife a car! I realized that you are working for me most of the time and rarely have time to stay home with your family, so I want to buy your wife a car."
The bodyguard’s eyes reddened at her explanation. "I thank you on my wife's behalf, Miss Tate! She's always been supportive of my job and has been grateful for you."
"What color does she like?"
"White! It's simple and elegant."
The two chatted along the way as they followed the manager into the factory.
Avery doubted her own eyes when she spotted Sebastian in the factory. She rubbed her eyes and gazed up again...
"Isn't that the second master of the Jennings family?" Her bodyguard spotted Sebastian as well and did not suspect if he had mistaken the person ahead for Sebastian. "Why is he here?"
"Mr. Jennings ordered a car with us, so he is probably here to look at it," the manager explained. "Do you know each other?"
Avery hummed in response.
Sebastian heard them from a distance and turned to look at them. He beamed when he spotted Avery and immediately hurried over.
"Avery! Why are you here?" Sebastian acted as though he was a close friend of Avery's and the smile on his face was rather misleading.
"Buying a car," she said. "You, too?" "Yeah! My father is marrying Angela, right? I am ordering a car for Angela as a wedding gift for them," he said. "What color do you want? I know someone at the management level..."
"It's fine. I’ll just go ahead and get a normal white one. Thank you, though!" She appreciated his thought.
"You went to my father's place this morning. How did the meeting with Angela go?" Sebastian received Avery's call earlier that morning, asking for help to access Dean's house.
"You can see the cars with this manager. I will head over to the canteen with Sebastian. Come find me when you are done," Avery told her bodyguard.
The bodyguard did not dare to let his guard down. "Miss Tate, just a white one will do. I don't have to go see it. I will go to the canteen with you."
Seeing that her bodyguard was following closely behind them, Sebastian teased, " What a dutiful bodyguard you have there. What, is he afraid that I would do something to you in broad daylight?"
"The last time something happened to my boss in Ylore, it happened during broad daylight," the bodyguard retorted.
"Can't argue with that. It's better safe than sorry." Sebastian looked away.
Once they arrived at the canteen, both Avery and Sebastian went to grab their trays to select their food.
"Why would your father hurt your brother? Can you tell me?" Avery whispered.
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