Two days after the birthday banquet.
Lord Wendell was standing in his castle, looking quite solemn.
“Have you found out all his spies?”
“Yeah, we found all of them out. I’ve never expected that one of them was an old man who has been working here for decades. If we didn’t do the investigation carefully, we wouldn’t suspect that man at all.”
The butler looked quite serious, still fearful when reporting. “I wonder how that Ernest has done all of them. He’s so young but he has such tough means. We have never been in touch with him before, but his spies are here. I’m afraid he has his spies all over the world.”
If it weren’t that the Fraser family was always isolated and careful, and the way of going back was quite confidential, the butler believed that Ernest would have probably found out where the Fraser family was.
At the thought of it, he felt that it was so close.
Upon hearing it, Wendell said with a sigh, “No wonder he is Jennifer’s son. Although he didn’t grow up in the Turner family, his means are quite competent comparing to those of the members from the the Turner family.”
“Indeed, if he were in the Turner family, I’m afraid he would be...”
“Stop it!” Wendell suddenly interrupted the butler.
With a nervous and solemn look, he said, “Only you and I know that he is the grandson from the Turner family. In the past, Jennifer escaped from there, so the Turner family thought that she had died already. They would never expect that she has a son. If Ernest’s background was known by the Turner family, I’m afraid there would be huge trouble.”
The butler immediately shut up.
Also, they were from the Fraser family, the Turner family was also another powerful one.
They would never be willing to get involved in such a complicated family and trapped in the mire.
Wendell walked forward for a few steps, his fingers fumbling for something on the wall. “Are you sure you’ve arranged everything well? I don’t have much time left. I have to set off to the Fraser family immediately.”
The butler nodded. “Yes. I’ve told the public that you have got a cold and need to rest in bed for a half-day. I’m the only one serving you. Nobody is allowed to come closer to this door. Even if they felt something strange, they wouldn’t know where we’ve gone.”
They only needed a half-day to go through the secret path. As soon as they arrived at the appointed place to meet, Ernest wouldn’t be able to find him at all.
“All right. Let’s hit the road.”
As soon as finishing his works, Wendell reached a button and pressed it. The wall in front of them cracked, and a passage with stairs was shown.
Under the stairs, there was a concrete road, on which there was an automatic suspension car.
Looking at the car, Wendell said, “I haven’t left my castle through this secret path for so many years. Unexpectedly, when I’m seventy, I’ll experience such a spy game.”
Back then, someone used to hope to find the Fraser family through Wendell, but Wendell had left his castle through this underground path and went back to the Fraser family. Then, nobody knew the location ever since.
Now, Ernest came to him, and Wendell had to do it again.
Wendell got on the car and the butler was driving. The car headed to the end of this long path.
After a certain period, they finally saw the light from the sky. The car stopped at a cliff at the end of the coast.
Under path, there was the rough sea, and above there were the towering rocks.
Wendell got off from the car. Standing at the end of the path and looking at the sea in front, he was lost in thought.
This place was already quite far away from his castle.
It would be so difficult to imagine that he, who was supposed to stay home, would appear in such a place. If people in the castle found that he wasn’t in his room, they wouldn’t be able to find him at all.
“Let’s go.”
Wendell walked aside and pressed on the wall. Hidden narrow stairs showed up after the rock cracked, winding down.
Wendell and the butler walked through the stairs. After a while, they finally appeared on the seashore.
Shortly, a yacht roared over and they got in.
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