Nothing Matters, except YOU & Me novel Chapter 504

Unexpectedly, the person who couldn’t possibly show up at the Langston Residence right at this moment showed up in front of Heather, and she looked at the person with a half-smile. “Heather.” This was probably the last voice she liked to hear. Few people would call her so affectionately, but she felt disgusted whenever this particular person called her name in such a manner.

“What brings you here, Blake?” she asked in surprise. It wasn’t time to clock off yet, so why would Blake come home ahead of time? He even went to the study right away to meet her.

“It’ll be Thanksgiving day tomorrow, so the company closed early,” Blake replied naturally.

Heather almost forgot that the next day would be Thanksgiving Day, the day when one was supposed to have a Thanksgiving meal with their family. She felt somewhat lonely all of a sudden, for she recalled her parents—they had basically been treating her with indifference ever since she came back to the Langston Residence. Naturally, she would be lying if she said that she had no feelings about this. The next day would be Thanksgiving Day, but her parents weren’t at the Langston Residence at all. When rumors about Heather and Matthias spread last time, Stephen was so angered that he took Camille overseas right away with the excuse of keeping their minds off things, but he actually did so to get Heather out of his mind. Heather had sometimes considered changing such circumstances, for Stephen hated his child so much as a parent. Heather couldn’t understand why he hated her so much as if he had never treated her as his daughter.

When he looked at Heather’s ‘masterpiece’ on the table, Blake asked hesitantly, “Are you painting?”

Since she feared that Blake would see her painting, Heather immediately crumpled up the painting that had taken her a long time to draw into a ball and tossed it nonchalantly into the trash can. Then, she replied without a change in her countenance, “I was just killing time.”

Blake gave a knowing look before he smiled. “Did you see Grandpa?” As it turned out, he was here to find Robert.

“Grandpa is away for something.” Heather wasn’t clear about the specific reason Robert left home. Seeing how impatient Blake looked, she wondered why Blake had come to find Robert. In fact, it seemed like he had something serious to discuss with Robert.

“Did he mention when he’ll be back?” There was a trace of anxiety in Blake’s voice.

Deep down inside, Heather grew even more puzzled. “I’m not clear about that; he should be back before dinner.” She wasn’t clear about this since Robert had left without saying anything.

“I can’t get through to Grandpa’s cell phone number, so I’m worried.” Blake took out his cell phone, and its screen showed that he had called Robert a dozen times.

This time, even Heather became nervous as well. “What happened?” she asked in disbelief while taking the cell phone from him. Robert would typically phone Blake back, so this gave her a bad feeling.

“I’m not sure. I don’t know where Grandpa is at all right now,” Blake replied worriedly. Deep down inside, he still cared about Robert, though he often thought that the latter was biased.

“Let’s go out and look for him.” Heather began to turn things over in her mind. There weren’t many places that Robert could go to, so they would definitely find him if they searched these places one by one.

“Perhaps he’ll be back after a while.” Robert took back his cell phone with a deep frown. Unpleasant scenes flashed across his mind since such a thing had never happened to Robert before.

“No matter what, let’s go out and look for him. We can ask the butler to inform us if Grandpa comes back,” said Heather while leaving the study. Then, her voice was heard outside the door. “Butler! Butler!”

As he looked at Heather from behind, Blake thought for a moment before going after her. He didn’t want something bad to happen to Robert; even though it occurred to him that he would be calling the shots in the Langston Family if Robert passed away one day, he mustn’t let anything happen to Robert before he could prove himself. He had to make Robert recognize his capabilities, or he would live in Heather’s shadow all his life.

The two of them quickly reached the garage and moved separately with each person driving a car. At this moment, Blake was unusually reliable; he wasn’t totally worthless, for he looked quite like a brother right now.

Heather’s car was still under repair, so there was no way she could take it back that day. Out of the vast collection of cars in the garage, she chose the smallest one. She used to like driving this car in the past, but after she began working at the Langston Group, she drove a bigger car to make herself appear lofty and impressive while meeting clients.

Since she knew that Robert’s favorite go-to place was a clubhouse specialized in serving the elderly, she decided to go there to take a look, thinking that Robert was probably playing cards and gathering with several old buddies. On the other hand, Blake intended to go to the most luxurious golf course in Bradfort City—it was Robert’s favorite place for holding talks with people. Heather also thought that Robert was more likely to be there, but she didn’t want to go to the golf course. After all, the golf course’s owner was a man whom she hated quite a lot. Coincidentally, the man was on friendly terms with Blake, which was why Blake chose to visit the golf course instead.

Heather sped up her car while praying inwardly that nothing would happen to Robert. She sent him several text messages in a row, asking him to reply to her as soon as he saw her messages. However, there was no reply after she sent those texts; they weren’t even read. It seemed like Robert didn’t have his cell phone with him, and this wasn’t good news. Robert had never made his family so worried before; even if his cell phone was with someone else, the person would have to report to him whenever his cell phone registered any calls or messages. It didn’t make sense for Robert not to reply to their calls and messages, so this was deeply alarming. How could Robert, who always had such a good habit, go off the radar?

Heather was on tenterhooks as she was about to arrive. Of course, she hoped that Robert was at the clubhouse, but she had a hunch that he wasn’t there. She hated having such a strong intuition since this wasn’t a good thing.