Aurelia froze, looking at the familiar back. Her breath was caught as her heart skipped a beat.
When Neil turned around and their eyes met, it was like the world had stopped moving.
Ever since Neil took her to Centrolis, she had been staying in Royal Manor without any contact with him. Their only contact was her dozens of accounts that posted and commented under his video…
Now that they had met again, Aurelia could not tell what she felt. She forced a stiff smile and greeted him as naturally as she could, "Hi, uncle!"
Neil's gaze dimmed with a straight face, but his hands that were on his sides balled up into fists. He was kind of angry with himself. He kept telling himself that he had come to the airport to go back to Southeast Aciatic with Cordelia because he was worried about his aunt's illness and wanted to spend some time relaxing back home…
In spite of it, his subconscious told him that it was because Aurelia was going there too.
This was why he had rushed over so eagerly.
In actuality, he had two more schedules. When he packed his luggage so spontaneously today, it nearly made Shane cough blood out of his rage.
Neil took a deep breath and could not help laughing self-deprecatingly at himself that he had flattered himself. The girl had made it clear in the helicopter—he was just 'uncle' to her, only an uncle!
Zuko woke up then, his cry breaking the silence.
Cordelia quickly took him to the nursing room to feed him.
Neil went to Zephyr and cleared his throat. "Uh… Aurelia's coming with me."
"Huh?" Zephyr was taken aback.
Neil pulled Aurelia to his side without saying more.
"Uncle, you…"
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