Seven Years a Fool One Day a Queen (Kristine and Colton) novel Chapter 398

Chapter 398

Although Calvin had already mentally prepared himself to be pushed away by Eliza time and time again, he still needed some time to process it. to accept and digest it bit by bit.

After a long pause, Gideon asked. “So how long do you plan to hide?”

Calvin didn’t answer immediately.

After a while, Gideon finally heard him mutter softly, “I don’t know.”

Because he was facing a deadlock.

As expected, after Eliza called Gideon, she still hadn’t received any response from Calvin.

It was obvious he was avoiding her.

Eliza, who was already busy with work, couldn’t be bothered to chase after him.

He could hide for a while, but not forever.

And frankly, with him not showing up, things were quieter for her.

When Sadie sent over the Apex announcement for Eliza’s review, he also updated her on the situation with Lilith.

Originally, there were a bunch of reporters waiting at the airport in North City for Lilith. But Ambrose had used the Quinn family’s connections.

He pressured the media on one hand while protecting Lilith, and in the end, they didn’t manage to capture a single photo of her.

The negative news about Lilith online was also cleared out.

On the other hand, the scandalous news about Belle being “kept” had been spreading like wildfire.

Even though Eliza had had Apex’s legal department release a statement clarifying that the “sugar daddy” mentioned in Belle’s Facebook post

was indeed her, people still continued to gossip.

The public just loved to believe attention grabbing rumors.

It seemed that only such stories could bring them some strange sense of satisfaction.

That’s why Eliza had Sadie prepare a new announcement, planning to release it at the right time.

Sadie also mentioned. “Talith hasn’t been idle either. After returning to North City, she’s been doing everything she can to make a comeback. Ambrose is helping her connect with people Although Apex has made plenty of calls to people in the industry. Lilith’s circle is in North City, not Washington. Our influence is limited there.”

After hearing Sadie’s words, Eliza tapped her fingers lightly on the desk.

So North City had to be like that?

Only Lilith could have connections in North City?

After finishing her call with Sadie, Eliza was just about to dial Nicolas’s number when he called her.

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Eliza picked up almost immediately, I was just looking for you, and here you are calling.”

“It looks like we have a good tacit understanding.” Nicolas replied, still in his usual lazy tone.

You need something?” Eliza asked first.

Tve got something interesting to share with you, sent it to your email, check it out.”

Eliza opened her email as she spoke.

After a moment, she asked,

“How did you get this?”

“I have my ways.” Nicolas sounded pleased with himself. Then he asked, “By the way, what did you want from me?”

Looking at the content in her email, Eliza said with a smile in her voice, “Nothing for now, but it’s almost mealtime. Want to grab lunch?”

Nicolas was about to agree when Eliza added, “Belle wants to go to Aethelburg for Portuguese egg tarts.”

Nicolas paused, then said, “You two go ahead, I have other plans.”

“Alright, we’ll eat together another time.”

Eliza didn’t press him further, thinking that Nicolas was genuinely busy.

After ending the call, Eliza forwarded the email’s contents to Sadie and Belle.

Belle replied almost immediately, with a long string of exclamation marks.

Then she went into sixty–second voice message mode.

Eliza didn’t need to listen to know what she was saying.

She replied, “This is something Nicolas dug up. You can make the call–send it or not, it’s up to you.”

Belle immediately decided, “Send it! We have to send it!”

She had been wanting to tear Lilith’s mask off for a while, but only now, with solid evidence, was she able to do so.

She also wanted to see how Ambrose would react after seeing this.

Would he continue to protect Lilith?

If he did, then it would only prove one thing–true love.

Right now, Belle’s focus wasn’t on Ambrose

She knew these materials were gathered by Nicolas

He must have put a lot of effort into it.

After all, she knew just how scheming Lilith was, how cautious she was.

If it wasn’t for that, Belle wouldn’t have known her for so many years without catching any dirt.

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Out of both sentiment and logic, she should thank Nicolas or at least treat him to a meal.

But…

As she pondered, a bit regretfully, she thought,

Alcohol’s never a good thing!

Always screwed things up!

In the end, she didn’t send the thank you message.

Eliza told Belle to get ready, and they would head to Aethelburg for egg tarts soon.

She also mentioned that she had planned to invite Nicolas, but he was unavailable.

When Belle saw that Nicolas couldn’t make it, she actually breathed a sigh of relief.

After all, she hadn’t figured out how to face him yet.

Her thoughts were still in turmoil when she accidentally came across a post from Nicolas’s recent social media.

From the setting, it seemed to be in a nightclub–bright lights, glasses of wine.

The main photo was a close–up of a hand holding another.

The hand clearly belonged to Nicolas, with his signature Patek Philippe watch on his wrist.

The hand he was holding was slender and fair, no doubt a woman’s hand.

The caption was even more interesting:

[There are so many cute girls, of course, I need to pamper them.]

Belle went silent for two seconds, then turned off her phone screen.

She let out a long sigh.

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