When Nicolas opened the door early the next morning, he saw Elaine standing there pacing back and forth, wondering how long she had been there.
Nicolas froze: "Miss James ......"
Elaine greeted him with a smile, "Good morning."
Nicolas ushered her into the dining room, "Did Miss James have breakfast."
"I've eaten." With that, she waved her hand again and said, "You don't have to mind me, I have an appointment with my friend to meet here, she will be here in a minute."
Nicolas nodded slightly and poured a glass of water over to Elaine.
Just as he was about to leave, Elaine called out to him and spoke with some embarrassment, "That ...... if I want to see him, should I do ah, wait for him here, or what?"
Nicolas knew who she meant by "he": "Master of Riverside told me to contact his assistant if Miss James wanted to see him."
After a pause, Nicolas added, "Miss James, do you need me to get in touch now?"
Elaine first nodded and then shook her head immediately after, "Or you can ask his assistant for me if I can go to him if he's not busy, and if he is, forget it."
"Okay, Miss James hold on a second."
Elaine sat in her seat and turned her head to look out at the river view, her mood as bright as the rising sun.
A few minutes later, Nicolas came over, "Miss James, the assistant said that Master of Riverside is meeting with a partner from Italy today and the schedule is full."
Instead of losing her face, Elaine's smile was bright: "That's okay, I'll come back tomorrow then."
She always waits for one, when he is not busy.
"Then Miss James call me again if you need me."
"Okay, you go ahead and get busy."
Elaine sat there for an hour before Natasha came running over in a hurry.
She said, "Elaine sorry ah, I have been talking well for half a day before my father let me go out, you have been waiting for a long time, right?"
Elaine said, "No, I don't have much to do at home anyway."
Natasha ordered a glass of water, took a few sips to slow down and started to share with Elaine the first-hand news she just got: "By the way, did you know that Brendon is in the hospital!"
Elaine was stunned at the words and then shook her head, "I don't know, is it sick?"
"Of course not." Natasha said, "My dad was going to settle the score with him, but instead he heard the news that he was in the hospital, according to reliable information ......"
Natasha said, lowering her voice, as if she was afraid of attracting wrongdoing: "He was broken a leg, that person is the James family family head, Darnell. elaine, I remember he should be your uncle, right?"
Elaine corrected, "He's not my real uncle, it's just a term of endearment."
Natasha nodded haphazardly: "That's not important, is he so terrible in the rumor or not? I heard that he looks tiger-backed, ugly, two meters tall, and can crush other people's heads with his bare hands, and there's more, he likes to eat raw meat and organs of animals, and also drink fresh blood ......"
At the end of the day, she had goose bumps all over her body.
Elaine: "......"
The version Natasha heard was actually similar to what she had heard before.
At that time Elaine had little concept of Darnell's looks, just felt scared to look at him, and not much contact itself, so naturally, it will be a variety of horror rumors strung together.
At the end of the day, that fear, then engraved in the memory.
Elaine held her cheek with one hand and stirred the milk tea in front of her with the other: "The rumors are false, he didn't look tigerish or two meters tall, but ......"
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