Female Novel
Chapter 2468
Percy's hands fell on her waist and pulled her toward him.
"You're holding too tight. What's wrong?" Nina could feel Percy's strength on her waist. She could nothelp but lower her head and glance at his hand.
“You're not allowed to have sympathy for other men in front of me,” Percy said in a domineeringmanner.
Nina did not know whether she should cry or laugh. She replied, "He's Luke, your friend! Besides, I'mnot feeling sorry for him. I'm just letting out a sigh.”
She had no idea what Percy was jealous of.
"I won't allow you to even let out a sigh. If you continue to do this, he'll no longer be my friend.”Jealousy filled Percy's heart, and even his expression showed that he was jealous.
Nina found it rare to see Percy in such a state. She picked up her phone and seized the chance tofocus her phone camera on his face. There was a click.
"What are you doing..." Percy could not help but feel puzzled when he saw Nina do that.
"It's rare to see you getting jealous. I have to keep it as a memory." Nina looked down and saved thephoto on her phone. "This is how the director of the Mallory Corporation looks when he gets jealous. Iwonder how surprised your employees will be when they see this."
"You're only allowed to keep the photo on your phone. Don't show it to others." Percy put his hand onNina's waist and headed into the house when Luke's car was out of sight.
"Okay. I'll look at it every day. You jealous little boo." Nina smiled.
In the afternoon.
Luke and Lliam drove back to A City respectively. They did not head straight to Crawford Manor.Instead, they chose to park the car at the villa first.
After all, Luke did not want to drag Luca into his family matters.
Luca helped them to carry the suitcases out of the car.
Aunt Neile walked out of the house when she heard noises. When she saw them come back, sheasked in surprise, "Mr. Crawford, I thought you said you would be going on a vacation in X City forsome time. Why are you back so early?" "I have something to do.” Luke picked up his toolbox. Thetools in the box were much heavier than the suitcases.
Luca carried the suitcases out.
Aunt Neile immediately came forward to help. She looked at Luke, who was walking in front of thegroup, and asked Luca in a soft voice, “Ms. Craw, what happened?"
“Something came up at Crawford Manor," said Luca.
Aunt Neile nodded and stopped asking.
After everything was moved into the living room, Luke turned to look at Luca and said, “I have to takethe kids along with me and go back there. Can you stay here?"
“Mr. Crawford, don't mind me. Please go ahead." Luca slightly nodded. She did not understand whyLuke had to take the kids with him.
The three kids did not like Allison at all.
Luke nodded and left with the kids.
That was when Aunt Neile asked, “Ms. Craw, what happened at Crawford Manor?"
“I'm not sure about the details either. It has to do with Ms. Allison," replied Luca. Aunt Neile was not abig-mouthed person, so it was fine to tell her about it.
Besides, if Aunt Neile wanted to know about it, she would figure it out even if Luca had no idea whathappened.
“Oh, it's about Madam Allison..." Aunt Neile nodded and understood what was going on. “Ms. Craw, areyou hungry? Let me prepare something for you."
“It's okay. Are there any noodles in the kitchen?" Luca recalled that they had not eaten anything sincethey departed.
The kids were fine as they had some snacks in the backseat of the car when they were on the wayback. They would not be hungry, but Luke and Luca had not eaten anything yet.
Luke hurried to Crawford Manor after dropping her off, and he did not get to eat anything.
Luca felt sorry for him.
“Yes. If it's too troublesome for you, you can have some tacos that I prepared this morning. Would youlike to have some?" Aunt Neile asked.novelbin
“I'll have tacos, then. It'll save me the trouble of cooking some noodles." Luca decided at once.
“Okay. Let me get them for you." Aunt Neile walked into the kitchen.
Luca walked toward the entrance and looked outside the door. Luke had already left with the kids.
Luke and the kids returned to Crawford Manor. The kids surrounded Old Master Crawford and talkedabout their experiences as well as what they saw in the past few days once they arrived.
Old Master Crawford was delighted to hear them talk about those things and said, “X City is a niceplace. I'd like to visit there too when it's not that cold after the New Year."
Susan immediately replied, “Father, I'd like to follow you there too. I'm also interested in taking a look atthe beautiful scenery of X City. I can take care of you at the same time."
Old Master Crawford knew what Susan was up to for being so enthusiastic, but he still nodded hishead. He was not in a hurry to visit X City, and he had something more important to do now.
Allison, who was upstairs, had received the news that Luke had come back. She hurried down thestairs.
Allison squeezed tears out of her eyes when she saw Luke standing there. Then, she came forwardand said, “Luke, you're finally back. I missed you."
Luke took a step sideways and another step back when he saw Allison coming toward him. He said ina cold voice, "Let's talk in the study."
"I..." Allison did not expect that she would not get the chance to say a word of the speech she hadprepared earlier.
Old Master Crawford held his walking cane and rose to his feet. He agreed with Luke and said, "Let'shead to the study."
"Father, what are you all discussing? Why are you going to the study? Luke just come back, right? Isn'tit better for him to sit in the living room? We'll get something for him to drink?" Susan asked withdissatisfaction. She would be missing out on a lot if they headed to the study.
"He can have it later after we've settled the matter," Old Master Crawford spoke on behalf of Luke. Heshot Susan a warning glance to signal her to be quiet and not to cause trouble.
Susan secretly snorted when she saw the way the old master looked at her. Even if they headed to thestudy, she would be able to know what had happened.
Was it not because Allison got cheated again?
Susan sneered when she watched the three of them walk into the elevator.
Lanie frowned when he saw the expression on Susan's face.
Lanie knew Susan was not on good terms with their grandmother, but the expression on her faceseemed like she was gloating over Allison's misfortune. Could it be that she already found out whattrouble their grandmother had gotten herself into?
In the study.
The three of them walked into the study. They immediately closed the door behind them.
Mr. Griffin stood outside the door and guarded it.
Old Master Crawford sat in the executive office chair with Luke's help. He remained silent.
Luke sat in another armchair.
Allison noticed that the pair of grandfather and grandson were not planning to speak. Her hearttwitched uncontrollably for a moment. Then, she had no choice but to bite the bullet and break thesilence, "Uh, Father, Luke."
"Grandpa has already told me what happened," Luke interrupted her.
Allison let out a sigh of relief when she heard that Old Master Crawford had told Luke her situation. Sheimmediately confessed, "Luke, I thought of earning some money for myself to lighten your burden. Ididn't expect that person to be a scammer. I know I did something wrong. Please help me."
"Lighten my burden?" Luke raised his brows. Of course, he would not believe what she said.
Old Master Crawford could not help but sneer. She was really bad at putting on an act.
Zachary was the only one who would get fooled by her.
As Luke repeated what Allison said, guilt and nervousness aroused within her. She had no choice butto reply, "Yes."