Female Novel
Chapter 1954
"Is that so? Get some rest after dinner. Food is ready," the maid said with a smile.
Luca felt that the maid was too involved. Maybe she was acting on Luke's orders...
When she heard the maid say that food was ready, she went into the study and said to Luke, "Mr.Crawford, dinner is ready."
Luke nodded and picked up the thick stack of documents on the side. "Bring me the crutches."
When he was discharged from the hospital, the hospital nurses had thoughtfully provided him withcrutches but he never used them because he thought that it was bad for his image.
Luca glanced at the documents in his hand and looked away casually, feeling a little guilty. She hadseen the word 'project'.
'Is that the bidding document?'
She quickly hid her emotions and brought the crutches in the corner to Luke.
Luke's mood sank when he saw the metal crutches. He thought that he would never use the crutchesuntil he recovered, but he did not expect to have to use them now.
Luca sighed to herself when she saw his reaction. It was as though he was forced to use the crutches.
"Mr. Crawford, where are you going?"
"Upstairs." Luke abruptly stood up using the crutches with the document in one hand.
Luca immediately stepped forward to help him for fear that he would lose his footing and fall.
Luke had the crutches under his armpits. The awkward feeling made him uncomfortable. He would notbe using them if it were not for Luca's sake.
"Are you alright?" Luca asked with concern when she saw that he could stand up straight but was notmoving.
"Let's go. Walk behind me and pay attention. I'm a little unstable." In front of Luca, he did not bother tomaintain his image. He honestly told her that he was not familiar with using crutches.
"Okay." Luca nodded in agreement and followed behind him as she held her breath.
He lifted the injured leg, placed the crutches under his armpit, and moved forward step by step. "Is thismeant for humans?"
"This is how medical crutches are..." Luca said. These were the best crutches that money could buy.He probably had not used them much, so he was not used to them.
If he could accept the crutches, he would not need to stay on the first floor.
“Grandpa's cane looks like it'd be easier to use compared to this." Luke was referring to Old MasterCrawford's walking cane.
Luca knew what he was talking about. She had a feeling that Luke was especially chatty that day...
He struggled to walk upstairs with his crutches. Luca followed from behind, terrified.
She was scared that he would lose his foothold and lean back, so she was ready to catch him at anytime
Fortunately, Luke made it to the second floor.
He stood at the entrance of his bedroom and raised his chin. "Help me open the door."
"Okay, Mr. Crawford," Luca said as she opened the door. It opened with a click, just like the sound itmade when she opened the door just now. The only difference was that Luke was beside her this time.
She lowered her gaze and glanced at the document in his hand. ‘Is he going to put the document in thesafe?'
Luke walked in with the help of his crutches. He closed the door but left a gap. He did it on purpose forLuca.
When the villa was being renovated, the second floor was made to have good soundproofing. If thedoor was completely closed, she would not be able to hear him opening the safe when she stoodoutside.
Luca turned her back to the door, but her ears were subconsciously listening to the sounds inside.novelbin
She heard Luke open the safe...
She could hear everything, from him twisting the combination lock and then entering the digitalpasscode.
She has seen that kind of safe. There were three kinds of locks in total—a twist combination lock, adigital lock, and a pupil lock. However, for the convenience of users, one would generally only need tounlock two locks. The third lock would automatically be unlocked.
In his current state, it was inconvenient for Luke to unlock the pupil lock, so he unlocked the other twolocks.
Luca took a deep breath. She could hear everything. The safe was successfully opened, and she heardthe sound of the safe's door opening. After a while, she heard Luke closing the safe and the sound ofthe three locks locking automatically.
The moment the safe door was closed, she heard Luke walking out with the help of his crutches.
After a while, he came out of his room. "Let's go. Let's have dinner."
"Okay, Mr. Crawford." After Luca helped him close the door, she walked in front of Luke and carefullyguarded him since they were going downstairs.
Luke watched Luca's petite body walk in front of him as she wanted to protect him. He was filled withemotions.
He should be the one protecting her, but the two had swapped positions.
The two went down one step at a time. Going downstairs was more difficult than going upstairs, so ittook a lot out of Luke to get to the first floor.
Upon seeing what was going on, the maid exclaimed, "Sir, this is too dangerous!"
Luke looked at her calmly and replied, "Don't worry about it."
"Stand where you are. I'll bring the wheelchair over." The maid was still anxious. If Luke, who was notfamiliar with using crutches, fell, it would take him much longer than expected to recover.
Luke lowered his gaze. It was indeed difficult to go downstairs. He was cautious, but his armpits werealready aching from using the crutches.
The maid pushed the wheelchair to his side and said, "Sir, try to avoid going upstairs. You're moreprone to accidents if you go on like this."
"I had to put something important upstairs," Luke explained, lest the maid nagged at him more.
The maid still disagreed with his choices. "If you had something to put upstairs, you could've gotten meto do it."
Luke did not speak anymore. He went to the dining room by maneuvering the wheelchair. "Let's havedinner."
"Okay." The maid nodded and walked into the kitchen to bring out the dishes.
Luca also helped her out.
After dinner, she helped Luke take a bath as she did for the last couple of days. After she watched himtake his medicine, she asked, "Mr. Crawford, is the company's bidding document completed?"
Luke shook his head and replied, "We're left with the last two pages. We can finish it by tomorrow."
"Will you be at the scene of the bidding?" Luca asked. If she succeeded in stealing the biddingdocument for Abel, she did not know what he would do with it.
She knew that he would sell the document to someone else.
However, she was unsure if the person who bought T Corporation's bidding document would modifythe basic information and submit it or whether they would modify their bid based on their document tosecure a win.
Whichever it was, Luke would inevitably fail...
After he took over T Corporation, he participated in many bids, and all of them were successful.
As long as he was present, the reporters would capture his victorious stance.
However, this time, he was destined to lose. If he was there, those reporters would make a big deal outof it...
Luca hoped that he would send someone to attend on his behalf because of his injury.
"I'll definitely be there," Luke said. Luca wanted his bid, which meant that on the day of the bid, theperson controlling her might be present. Although it was only a possibility, he was determined to showup.
He had to go to the scene in person to confirm.