Female Novel
Chapter 292
Chapter 292
Seraphina didn’t utter another word. She just took a bunch of files and headed back to ReynoldsManor.
Keeley didn’t chase after her.
He already knew what he needed to know. Stopping Seraphina now would be pointless.
What he didn’t know was that upon entering the house, Seraphina walked all the way to her roombefore taking a deep breath and placing a hand over her chest.
“Are you okay?” A maid hearing the commotion came out from the kitchen, “Something happened?”
Pressing on her chest, Seraphina took a moment before saying, “That was close.”
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Thank God the files she had were all about the thoroughly prepared arson case. If there was a singleslip, and Keeley found something suspicious about the case, all her efforts these past few days wouldhave been for nothing.
She was always lucky, thankfully.novelbin
After a sigh of relief, Seraphina quickly headed upstairs to her study.
Now that Keeley was hooked, he was bound to do some digging. She can’t afford any slack. She hadto get all the documents in front of Keeley.
Seraphina stayed in her study until evening. She thought she heard Valerio coming back from school,but Valerio was always well-behaved and wouldn’t disturb her when she was in her study, so she
ignored him.
At dinner time, Seraphina came downstairs to find Valerio was not at the table.
“Where’s Valerio?” She asked.
“He went straight upstairs when he got home,” the maid answered. “I just checked on him, he seems tobe in the bathroom.”
Upon hearing this, Seraphina frowned.
She recalled that Leandro personally took Valerio to school this morning. Could he have donesomething to his own son?
Although it was unlikely for Leandro to do such a thing, Seraphina still felt uneasy. So, she wentupstairs again.
She opened the door to Valerio’s room, but there was no one inside. The bathroom door, however, wasclosed.
Knocking on the door, Seraphina called, “Valerio, come out.”
A few seconds later, the door opened. Valerio stood behind it, looking at her with an innocent and kindface.
Seraphina glanced into the bathroom behind him but there was nothing unusual.
But, according to the maid, Valerio had been in there for quite a while.
“What were you doing in there?” She asked./
Valerio blinked and shook his head, indicating that he hadn’t been doing anything.
Looking at him, she then asked, “Did your dad say anything to you when he took you to school thismorning?”
After thinking for a moment, Valerio shook his head again.
Seraphina folded her arms and raised an eyebrow at him, clearly not believing him.
Before she could question him further, Valerio took her hand and led her downstairs for dinner.
After dinner, Seraphina went back to her study to review various documents, which took about threehours.
It wasn’t until she heard the sound of a car downstairs that she snapped out of it. Looking at the time, itshould be Leandro returning home.
Thinking of Leandro’s expression this morning, Seraphina found it amusing. She quickly tidied up herdocuments and stood up. She -went back to her room to get her pajamas and headed for Valerio’sroom.
But when she reached out to open the door, she found it was locked.
She paused he locked the door?
He had invited her to sleep with him enthusiastically last night, and he was so smug this morning. Nowhe locked the door and left her
out?
Seraphina could hardly accept this fact and wanted to bang on the door.
However, considering Valerio was still a student and had school tomorrow, she held back.
As she turned to go back to her room, Leandro was just coming upstairs and saw her standing atValerio’s door.
“What’s going on?” Leandro walked up and glanced at her, “Are you sleeping with Valerio againtonight?”
His tone was casual, but Seraphina could tell what he was implying.
He knew she was locked out, yet he deliberately asked her such a question!
Damn it!
Seeing Seraphina’s annoyed expression, a faint smile appeared on Leandro’s lips. He then put his armaround Seraphina’s waist and led her into his bedroom, closing the door behind them.
After a passionate sex, Seraphina lay contentedly on the bed, allowing Leandro to take care of her.
But the fact that Valerio had shut her out still rankled with her. She couldn’t help but kick Leandro.
Catching her ankle, he pushed her back down.
Seraphina quickly pushed against his chest to change the subject, “What exactly did you do to threatenValerio?”
“Threaten?”
“Yes.” Seraphina said, “Otherwise, how could he bear to shut me out?”
“It was a temptation.” Leandro replied.
Seraphina was not convinced, “To him, what’s more important than me?”
Hearing this question, Leandro chuckled.
“Indeed nothing.” He said.
“Then you…” Seraphina suddenly realized, “You used me to tempt him? How come? Only that silly kidwould be fooled by you! What did you make him do?”
“I wanted him to talk.” Leandro answered.
Hearing this, Seraphina was surprised. She paused for a moment, then said, “I hope for that too, but doyou think… I have that much influence over him?”
“I wouldn’t do anything meaningless.” Leandro slowly said, “He really likes you a lot.”
Hearing this, Seraphina sighed, “Even though he does like me a lot, and I’ve tried to encourage him tospeak, but… we can only hope…”
She was hopeful, but didn’t seem optimistic.
As for this matter, Leandro thought they just needed to wait for the outcome. So he didn’t continuediscussing it with her, instead, he asked about her case, “Did you see Keeley again today?”
“Yeah.” Seraphina said, then seemingly remembered something and grinned at him, “Everything wentsmooth, all thanks to your big push.”
Leandro heard this, turned his face slightly away and didn’t respond.
“How’s Herman doing?” Seraphina suddenly asked, “Has his mood improved? Have you talked tohim?”
Late in the night, they were both in bed, whispering to each other on a rare occasion, chatting about allsorts of things.
Meanwhile, in the adjacent bedroom, Valerio was in the bathroom, standing on a stool and practicingpronunciation in front of the mirror. He was putting in a tremendous effort and focus, showing no signsof fatigue.