Chapter 84
Hearing Seraphina’s words, Leandro lowered his head to light up a cigarette.
“Blocking a knife for you?” Conway suddenly burst out in anger, “Don’t you remember who got you in danger in the first place? You’re touched just because he look a knife for you? Where’s your sense? Where’s your principle?”
Leandro was lighting his cigarette with his left hand. Hearing Conway’s words seemed to hurt him a bit. He frowned, switching the lighter to his right hand
Seeing Conway’s fiery temper, Seraphina quickly tried to calm him down: “Grandpa, don’t get too worked up. I know I messed up… I really do…”
Conway was panting heavily With Seraphina’s help, he sat down before continuing, “I don’t care about anything else, but if you’re going to be with Balch, I can’t support that! He’s a playboy, not a good man!”
At this point, Seraphina didn’t dare to talk back, so she played along. She sat on the floor leaning against her grandpa’s leg, her chin resting on his knee, a mix of appeasement and coquettishness “I get it, Grandpa. I know what kind of person Balch is. You don’t need to worry, okay?”
Conway was still angry and huffed, “Cut him off, got it?”
Just then, Seraphina’s phone rang. She glanced at the screen and saw Balch’s name, picking up the call and reassuring her grandpa at the same time: “Got it, got it, I’ll cut him off right away!”
Hearing her words, Balch on the other end of the phone asked quietly, “Cut off what?”
Seraphina didn’t dare to talk on the phone in front of Conway, so she turned and walked out.
Leandro, sitting on the couch by the door, watched her leave, flicking his cigarette ash off with no expression on his face.
“I’m comforting someone else.” Seraphina glanced at Leandro as she walked out of the room, answering Balch’s question.
Hearing that, Balch was silent for a while before finally saying. I’ve put a lot of pressure on you, haven’t I?”
Seraphina leaned against the wall, not saying a word.
“I know you’re feeling lost right now,” Balch said after a long pause. “But there’s something… I need your help with…”
Seraphina took a deep breath as if sighing before finally saying, “Go ahead.”
“A cop named Herman came to see me. He said the case has drawn a lot of attention and the police don’t want to close it just yet. They need to search my place again,” Balch said. “But there are some things… I don’t want them to find…”
Hearing this, Seraphina just remained silent.
Whatever needed to be hidden from the police couldn’t be good. They both knew that.
“Sera, I won’t force you, Balch said. “If you don’t want to, just forget it.”
After a long silence, Seraphina finally said, 111 take care of it.”
When Seraphina returned to the room after hanging up, Leandro and Conway had moved on to another topic–health. Conway’s mood had improved a lot. Catching a glimpse of Seraphina, he patted the space next to him, “Come sit down.”
“Grandpa, I have some stuff to do, I have to go… Seraphina said in a soft voice.
Hearing this, Conway’s eyes widened in disbelief. “You’re leaving? You just got here a few minutes ago and you’re leaving? When was the last time your visited me for more than half an hour?”
Seeing Conway worked up again, Leandro called out in a calm voice, “Grandpa”
Conway looked at Leandro, struggling to keep his anger in check. He waved his hand dismissively, “Go, just go! Don’t bother about me!”
“Grandpa, don’t be like that” Seraphina said, “When I have some time, I’ll come and stay here with you for a month, will that make you happy?”
“Are you serious or fooling me again?” Conway said, “If you can’t do it, I will punish you!”
Seraphina raised her hand solemnly, I swear I will.”
Conway huffed, then reminded her, “You can’t have anything to do with Balch anymore, got it?”
Seraphina raised her hand again, “I swear I won’t.”
Leandro glanced at her. Seraphina was also looking at him, “Mr. Reynolds, you brought me here, you should also drive me home, right?”
Hearing that they came together, Conway immediately smiled, “Go, go have a date. Don’t worry about me.”
After saying goodbye to Conway, as soon as they got in the car, Seraphina told the driver, “To Urban Oasis”
Hearing this, Leandro turned to look at her. “Didn’t you just swear to grandpa?”
“What I said was just to make him happy” Seraphina said, “The won’t actually punish me.”
Leandro ignored her and started reading a file.
After a while, Seraphina, bored and sleepy, took off her shoes, put her feet on the backseat, and laid down, resting her head on Leandro’s lap.
Leandro put down the file and looked at her.
Seraphina smiled slightly, “I’m just laying down for a bit. We’ve already slept together, you wouldn’t mind such minor details, right?”
Leandro glanced at the driver in the front, then pulled up the partition between the front and back seats.
Seeing this, Seraphina couldn’t help but laugh.
4
Leandro seemed very busy, going through seven or eight files in just twenty minutes, his brow furrowing tighter and tighter.
Seraphina, resting on his lap, looked up at him and stretched out her hand to smooth out his furrowed brow
Leandro’s gaze moved from the files to her.
“Why are you always frowning?” Seraphina asked, “You’ll age faster that way”
With one hand holding the files. Leandro used the other to push her hand away.
Seraphina took the chance to notice his slightly stiff left hand. “What happened to your hand?”
Before Leandro could react, Seraphina reached out and grabbed the sore spot.
He had a bandage under his suit. Seraphina gently pressed on that part, looking up at him, “Did you get hurt? Was it from that night? What happened?”
Leandro, witnessing the scene, simply dropped his file and watched her coldly. “What do you think?”
“A gunshot wound?” Seraphina exclaimed in surprise. “So… why did you show up? Why help me?”
Leandro brushed her arm away, his face expressionless. “Ask what you want to ask.”
At this, Seraphina couldn’t help but laugh. I’m just trying to flirt with you, especially since you blocked a bullet for me with your body…”
Having said that, she stared at Leandro, boldly observing the expression on his face.
Unfortunately, Leandro’s attitude was as aloof as ever, his face showing no emotion.
This man, clearly interested in her body, yet exhibited extreme indifference towards her. However, despite the indifference, he had chosen to save her at a critical moment. Seraphina found this extremely amusing
However, this wasn’t what she was after at the moment.
Seeing that Leandro made no move, Seraphina had no choice but to submit. She straight out asked, “I want to know, how much do you know about Balch?”
