There was a sudden, thunderous roar.
It caused the originally turbulent courtyard to come to an abrupt stop.
Rena stopped walking and stomped in a compliant manner, “Grandpa! He punched me till I spat blood. Can’t I even hit him back?”
Grandpa?
Jack’s gaze averted to the villa.
The door to the villa opened, revealing an old master donned in a black Tang suit. With a cane in one hand to support him, he slowly approached the courtyard.
He was as thin as a stick, and he even had a hunched back. He was walking slowly with a cane, his face covered with deep lines and age spots, and his hair was grey. He was a man weighed down by old age.
However, his eyes were exceptionally bright and full of energy.
With a gentle smile on his face, he looked just like any other grandfathers out there.
As Rena Yales’ grandfather, he couldn’t be just like other grandfathers in the neighbourhood.
Jack looked at the old master, unable to help himself, and showed a solemn expression.
“Mr. Jack, I am Carlos Juan Yales.”
The old master smiled gently and bowed a little as he greeted Jack.
Jack did not say any words in response.
Rena, who was watching from the side, had been initially already mad, but upon seeing this scene, she felt as if she was about to explode from anger.
Good Lord! What kind of status did this man have?
Rena’s grandfather greeted him, but he was in a position high enough to ignore him. How could it be?
Rena couldn’t help reprimanding him, “Hey! Jack Hughes, where are your manners? My grandpa is greeting to you, don’t you know how to reply to him? You need to know that no one in the Grand Freemasons dares to treat my grandpa like this !”
“I am not in the Grand Freemasons.” Jack sneered.
“You…”
Rena, who was annoyed, stomped her feet, “Then don’t you know that you should respect the old and cherish the young?“
“Pfft!”
Jack gave her an indifferent smirk.
Rena was burning with fury at this point.
It felt like she was a bomb, and Jack was the wire that could make her explode any time.
This man was so infuriating!
“Rena! Enough!”
Carlos’s expression darkened, and he threw a sideways glance at Rena.
Soon after, a warm and gentle smile appeared on his face again as he invited Jack into the villa, “We prepared some tea. Mr. Jack, let us go inside and have a chat.”
Jack did not move.
He did not know what can be chatted with the two people in front of him.
Rena raised her brows and provoked him, “Then? Are you afraid that we have hundreds of assassins inside ready to ambush you? And kill you as you walk through the door?”
“I’m afraid of being eaten alive by you.”
Jack replied coldly and strode with big steps, overtaking Carlos, and walked towards the villa.
Rena furrowed her brows and gritted her teeth.
When she saw that Carlos was following Jack behind, she walked quickly to him and stopped him .
“Grandpa, this guy is too rude! Why are you still so nice to him?”
“Rude? I heard all of your flirtatious words from earlier clearly.”
Carlos gave her a sideways glance, “You little girl, I asked you to invite him, but just because you think he is charming, you flirted with him. You deserved to be punched!”
Rena was speechless at his response.
She gritted her teeth in dissatisfaction, “Grandpa, I am just a girl here, and I am even your granddaughter. How could you be on his side?”
“Gender doesn’t matter when it comes to being deviant.”
Carlos looked at Rena with a deep, meaningful gaze, let out an odd chuckle before he followed behind Jack.
Rena remained rooted on her spot and gritted her teeth in anger.
Who was being deviant?
It was Rena’s first time flirting with someone else, and her grandfather said that she was a deviant?
Oh god! Who was his real grandchild here?
The villa was spacious.
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