Vicente went to ask around, and it just so happened that the first person she ran into was that shady waitress.
"Have you seen Nina?"
"Princess Nina already left," the waitress said calmly.
"Left?" Vicente wrinkled her brows in worry. "Did she say where she’s going? With whom did she leave?"
The waitress was silent for a moment, seemingly trying to recall something. "She went with a beautiful woman who seemed to be of mixed descent. The two of them should know each other."
"A beautiful woman of mixed descent?" A figure emerged in Vicente's mind. "Demi?"
"Yes, that's her name," the waitress said affirmatively. "I heard Princess Nina call her Demi."
"Okay, thanks. I'll give her a call." Vicente felt like the huge boulder weighing her heart down disappeared when she learned that Nina left with Demi.
She quickly took out her phone and dialed Demi's number. "Demi, is Nina with you?"
Demi's voice rang from the other end. "Yes."
"Pass the phone to her, please," Vicente said as she hurriedly made her way out of the cinema.
After Vicente left, the waitress lowered her head, pressed his earbud, and whispered, "Vicente didn't suspect anything. He left. Carry things out as planned."
On Nina’s end, she promptly took the phone Demi proffered. "I'm in Demi's car. Don't worry. I just had a stomachache and asked her to take me to the hospital."
"What happened? Are you sick?" Vicente's heart sank again.
"It’s nothing serious. I just feel a little uncomfortable. I'll know what’s really going on after I go to the hospital," Nina said. "How are you? I just saw him go out to beat you up."
"You knew he came to beat me? What the hell did you say to him? He almost killed me with his punch just now!" Even now, Vicente still shuddered when she recalled how terrifying John looked.
She continued to walk out, complaining on her phone along the way. When she stepped out of the cinema, however, a horrifying sight greeted her. John was standing on the roadside, right in the direction she was heading. Frightened, she quickly made a detour.
"Considering that you can still complain this much, his fist must’ve not come into contact with you yet, right?" Nina was so relieved to know that Vicente was fine that she even had the mood to tease her.
"He almost hit me!" Vicente said dramatically. "His fist was less than one inch away from me! I’m really traumatized! I thought I was going to get beaten into a pulp! Anyway, you said he couldn't even defeat you. You were pulling my leg, weren’t you? My four bodyguards were all knocked down by him!"
"What?!" Nina was shocked. "He defeated your bodyguards? All of them?"
"Yes!" Vicente hissed angrily.
Her four bodyguards were strong experts, but they were all knocked down by John easily.
Nina said in surprise, "Wow! He's so powerful now."
Her blatant admiration flamed Vicente’s anger even more.
"Can you be fairer? At least you should stand on my side. Don't lose sight of what’s right and wrong because you’re fawning over his face!" Vicente said through gritted teeth.
"Ha-ha..." Nina burst out with laughter.
If it wasn’t because she had a stomachache, she might’ve already rolled on the ground laughing.
Once she had laughed enough, she added seriously, "Not only the face,
but even the abdominal muscles." Vicente felt like a cat had gotten her tongue. It was simply frustrating!
Demi, who was driving, only heard the conversation from Nina’s side and found the topic rather unbearable. She said awkwardly, "Can you two please be more considerate of me, who’s single? I think instead of me, it’d be better if Count Nangong’s the one to drive you to the hospital."
Nina was a little taken aback. Apparently, Demi had misunderstood her.
But such a misunderstanding was just right. It showed that they hadn’t said anything wrong just now.
"I'm going to the hospital now. I don't want to talk to you anymore. Please see Noah off at the airport on my behalf."
"Okay, take good care of yourself."
"You too," said Nina.
Vicente hung up and proceeded to go back to her car.
After everything Noah said, John’s anger still had somewhat decreased, but it couldn’t be extinguished.
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