Ch. 1591..1600
Chapter 1591
These people simply felt too dull.
Xyla Quest didn't interrupt either. Instead, she silently selected her hero and waited for the game to begin.
Soon, Xyla's team decided on their formation.
The Top Solo, Riverside Grass, chose Aatrox...
The Jungler, Awakened, chose Sejuani.
The Mid Solo, Dreamlike Wine, chose Orianna.
Meanwhile, as the ADC, Xyla chose Xayah.
Alex chose Rakan as the Support.
After the game started, people on the team started talking again—
"It's such a shame that you aren't playing Top Solo, Alex..." Riverside Grass said.
"That's right... Alex, can I add you as my friend? Let's play together when you're free," Awakened said.
"Alex, I've watched every single match of yours. Your performance during the world championship this year was amazing... In my heart, you'll always be the number one Top Solo in the world..." Dreamlike Wine said.
"LPL Region would never have a better Top Solo than Alex," Riverside Grass added.
In Team XS's practice room at their base, Alex glanced briefly at the conversation in the game. However, he didn't reply to the others at all. There wasn't any emotion in his eyes....
However, Xyla felt proud on the inside when she saw those compliments directed at Alex.
After all, Alex was one of her team members.
The two of them managed to win the match while the compliments kept coming...
Xyla had a lot of fun during this match.
Alex was practically a god-like Support...
The two of them cooperated perfectly and destroyed their opponents wherever they went...
There wasn't an opponent they couldn't defeat in the game, and they didn't lose a single battle. Instead, the two of them stormed their way through all three lanes.
Not a single flaw could be found in their god-like gameplay.
After playing a fruitful match, Xyla felt even more awake.
However, right then, Stanley Batton walked into the room.
When Stanley saw Xyla holding her laptop, wide-awake, he immediately shook his head helplessly. After that, he pinched his forehead gently as he walked over to Xyla. He then sat down beside her... Immediately after that, he looked down at his expensive, branded watch to check the time...
It was already midnight.
"Why aren't you asleep yet? Hmm? Should a pregnant lady even stay up this late?" Stanley asked. There was an indescribable gentleness in his tone.
After a full day's work, there was tiredness on his face that couldn't be concealed...
However, no matter how tired Stanley felt, he'd always appear patient whenever he saw Xyla. He would never hold back in showing his gentleness and care.
"I wanted to sleep at first, but I became wide awake after taking a bath and going through my skincare routine... After that, I quickly logged into League of Legends to play a few matches... I didn't expect to fee even more energized after playing one match..." Xyla explained.
Right then, Alex sent Xyla another invitation to join his team in the game...
Xyla clicked on the button to accept his invite.
Stanley shook his head helplessly again when he saw this. "Are you still a kid? You can only play one extra round. You'll have to sleep after it ends... Alright?" Stanley's voice was indescribably affectionate. At this instant, he seemed almost like a father who was disciplining his child.
"Staying up isn't good for the babies in your stomach. You're a doctor, and you should know this very well...
"Take good care of yourself, and don't always make me worried about you, alright? If I find you staying up again next time, I'll kiss you to death," Stanley added dominantly.
"Okay..." Xyla immediately felt a sense of warmth spread in her heart.
After that, Stanley stood up and walked in the bathroom's direction.
While waiting for the team matching process in the game, Xyla looked at Stanley's exhausted figure from behind. "Why did you come home so late today?"
Stanley frowned slightly and stopped walking...
Chapter 1592
Chapter 1592
Stanley Batton pinched his forehead gently once more. After that, he slowly turned around and leaned against the wall. "There's a lot of work and meetings to attend. That's why..." Xyla Quest felt extremely hurt to see Stanley like this. "Okay... In that case, hurry up and take a shower. After that, let's sleep."
"Alright... Be a good girl. Stop playing after this match, alright?" Although Stanley's voice sounded hoarse from being tired, it was still charming to listen to. It sounded extremely sexy. Xyla felt tingles in her body just listening to him.
"Okay..."
." Xyla nodded obediently.
Stanley entered the bathroom immediately after that. Meanwhile, Xyla quickly shifted her gaze back to the game screen.
By then, the team matching process was already complete.
This time, their teammates were all professional gamers from LPL Region.
These gamers were all in bottom-ranked teams within the region.
When they saw Alex, they started complimenting him enthusiastically. Moreover, they also actively sent him friend requests. However, Alex ignored all of them.
Xyla, on the other hand, observed all of this calmly. She didn't seem intent on interrupting.
Soon, everyone on the team selected the heroes they would each use respectively...
This time, Alex still played as Xyla's Support as he did before.
As everyone was a professional gamer, they annihilated their opponents wherever they went...
With everyone's equally god-like gameplay, they won the match in thirteen minutes.
At the same time, Stanley also finished taking a shower. At that moment, he was slowly walking out of the bathroom.
When Xyla heard his footsteps, she immediately switched off her laptop. After that, she fixed her gaze upon Stanley's face.
Stanley's hair had already been dried. His dense, black hair was parted naturally in a three-to-seven ratio, making him appear clean and neat.
He didn't have any clothes on, and there was only a white towel wrapped around his lower body.
His muscular chest, perfect abs, sexy vest line, and lean waistline were completely visible...
Just by looking at him, Xyla could sense the male hormones his entire body emanated. It was extremely seductive.
Despite seeing Stanley all the time, Xyla still felt charmed by him.
"Are you done with the game?" Stanley asked gently. After that, he naturally climbed into bed, removed the towel around him, and tossed it onto the ground. "Yeah." Xyla quickly turned off the lights and clung to Stanley's body like an octopus.
With little distance between them, Xyla could sense Stanley's every reaction...
During this period, Stanley had always been careful due to her pregnancy.
He never once touched her intimately.
Stanley was a grown man with an abundance of experience in life. Xyla knew how torturous it was for him...
She also knew how bad it felt for him right now.
"Honey... Do you want me to help you?" Xyla asked.
"No... I won't let you exhaust yourself," Stanley said before dominantly embracing her. Then, he forcefully suppressed all his urges.
"Are you sure?" Xyla asked.
"Yeah..." Stanley answered without hesitation.
"I heard that many men cheat on their wives during their pregnancy... Would you do that?" Xyla asked jokingly.
"Do you think a man who has been with the most beautiful woman in the world would still be interested in those common women?" Stanley held Xyla's face earnestly while carefully examining her facial expression with the help of moonlight.
Xyla immediately felt her heart warm when she saw the serious look in Stanley's eyes...
"I was just joking... You take things too seriously..." Xyla said jokingly.
"Don't make jokes like this..." Stanley said.
"Okay..." Xyla replied.
"How do you feel today? How was your appetite? Are you tired? Also, have you really stopped retching?" Stanley asked carefully. After finishing his sentence, he pressed his distinct lips gently against Xyla's bright forehead.
Chapter 1593
Chapter 1593
Xyla Quest was intoxicated by heart-warming moments like this...
"I feel great today, and my appetite was good too. I didn't feel nauseous either. So I think I probably won't experience retching in the future again," Xyla said.
"That's great." Stanley Batton immediately felt relieved when he heard this.
"I promised Dad that we'd return home for breakfast tomorrow. So let's get to bed early," Xyla said.
"Alright," Stanley said.
After closing her eyes, Xyla very quickly fell asleep...
However, as soon as she fell asleep, she started dreaming again.
Xyla dreamed that she was in a densely overgrown forest.
A white nine-tailed fox collapsed in a pool of blood...
A large area of white mist surrounded the nine-tailed fox...
After this dream ended, Xyla was transported to another dream...
In this dream, she wore a traditional white robe, and she had the hairstyle of someone from the ancient past. Xyla found herself playing a string instrument in an antique-looking room... Soon after, a man in a traditional light-blue robe with the hairstyle of someone from the ancient past walked into her room.
His face looked like that of Stanley.
The moon glowed dimly outside the window while many candles burned brightly in the room. The scene felt beautiful and dream-like.
When Xyla saw the man entering the room, she stopped playing the string instrument. Then, she slowly stood up and smiled joyfully. "Honey... You're home..."
Xyla was in a fantastic mood in the dream...
Right then, a layer of white mist flowed into the room...
Soon, it completely engulfed her husband.
However, Xyla was trapped outside the mist, and she couldn't get close at all.
A nasty fox odor filled the air, and it made Xyla feel like puking.
Approximately three seconds later, the sound of a fox crying pitifully could be heard. The mist gradually dissipated.
However, Xyla's husband also disappeared along with the mist...
Xyla was utterly taken aback by this.
She felt extremely panicked and horrified in her heart...
Due to feeling overly panicked and horrified, Xyla instantly opened her eyes and bounced into a seated position in the real world. Only after waking up did Xyla realize this was all just a dream. Meanwhile, Xyla's body and forehead were covered in sweat.
Her dream felt too real...
Meanwhile, the feelings of panic and horror were also felt in the real world.
Right then, Xyla felt completely unsettled....
After carefully recalling her dream, she realized that these two dreams seemed to be connected to the three dreams she had before... Xyla had the same hairstyle in all these dreams. In addition, the nine-tailed fox that appeared in the dreams was also identical...
The only difference was that Stanley appeared in her dream again today.
What was all this nonsense?
Xyla felt increasingly confused. Why was she getting these weird dreams one after another?
The stories in her dreams were like folklore.
As Xyla had woken up so suddenly, Stanley slowly opened his eyes despite being asleep a moment ago...
When Stanley saw Xyla sitting in bed, he immediately switched on the lights and sat upright. "What's the matter? Honey? Are you unable to fall asleep?" Stanley asked. Xyla shook her head. She then told Stanley everything that happened in her dream earlier.
After hearing what Xyla said, Stanley began frowning deeply.
Chapter 1594
Chapter 1594
"Why do the dreams you have tonight sound so similar to the ones you had before? It feels like scattered parts of a television drama..." Stanley Batton said earnestly.
It sounded like these stories could be pieced together.
However, other minor parts of the stories seemed to be missing somewhere in between.
Xyla Quest nodded repeatedly. There was an eager look in her eyes. "I didn't expect you to think the same way... I also feel that these stories could be connected. With a few added snippets, it would be a complete drama plot...
"In the beginning, I probably rescued a nine-tailed fox in my dream. This nine-tailed fox turned out to be a demon. After that, it perhaps fell in love with me because I saved its life...
"To be with me, he kidnapped my husband. Moreover, he demanded I marry him. Otherwise, my husband would die...
"I didn't have a choice but to agree to what he asked. After that, there was the scene on the night of our wedding. I might have put some poison in the wine.
"That, in turn, caused the fox demon to reveal his nine tails. Once it lost its energy, I used the sword I prepared in advance to chop his tails off...
"In the end, the fox demon disappeared... But this is just my guess..." Xyla explained.
Xyla carefully recalled the dreams she had previously while using her creativity to connect all the dots.
Although it sounded ridiculous, the connections made in the story were somewhat logical.
"It's possible..." Stanley had a serious and contemplative look in his eyes.
"My husband in the dream looks like you too... His name is Connor Murphy... But I don't know what that nine-tailed fox is called...
"Honey, I think this story feels much too real. It doesn't seem like a dream at all... Who would have dreams like this?
"Do you think this could be part of our past? Didn't Yaksha mention this before? We are indebted to a particular person.
"Could this person be that demonic fox? But I don't feel that we owe him anything from my dream...
"He was the one who did us wrong and hurt us... He abused his powers to get what he wanted, and he'd stop at nothing to achieve his objectives," Xyla said. She continued to analyze the situation thoughtfully as she theoreticized.
Xyla wasn't convinced that this was all just a dream.
She had never heard about anyone dreaming like this.
Xyla had dreamed about the same story for a few consecutive days. Moreover, they all seemed like snippets of a connected story...
Xyla didn't think this was purely a dream.
Perhaps, it might actually be memories from her past life...
These sealed memories might have been unlocked for a specific reason...
What would that reason be?
Could it be because Xyla became pregnant?
Xyla never had dreams like this before she became pregnant. However, it started once she became pregnant...
None of this could be a coincidence.
If these really were memories from her past life, Xyla felt that the incident that unlocked her memories was her pregnancy...
Although everything seemed very mystical, Xyla felt that it was still logical...
After all, many unexplainable things had happened to her in the past.
Stanley thought carefully for a minute. He then frowned slightly after that. "This isn't impossible... But this might also really just be a dream...
"For the time being, it seems like the possibility of it being the former is slightly greater than the latter..." Stanley added.
Xyla nodded gently before leaning against Stanley's body. "Yeah, it does... If these really were memories from my past life, I bet I'd continue to dream about those snippets from the past..." Xyla's heart was filled with questions...
She wanted to ascertain whether all of this belonged to memories from her past life or if it was only a dream.
Chapter 1595
Chapter 1595
However, Xyla Quest had no way of knowing for sure...
Xyla could only leave everything up to time.
If she continued to have these dreams in the future, that would signify they weren't just dreams...
After all, up until now, nobody else had been able to watch a drama series in their dreams...
In fact, this drama was even updated daily.
"Yeah..." Stanley Batton replied calmly. He then gently pulled Xyla into his arms.
"If those were memories from my past life, what else do you reckon ties us to the nine-tailed fox?
"I'm truly curious..." Xyla had many questions about this.
At the same time, she also had a lot of concerns in her heart...
Xyla felt that if all those were memories from her past life, the fact that she was seeing them at this point would indeed be ordained by fate. Why did god arrange for all this to happen?
Was it a representation that all the enmities in her past life were being tallied?
Was the person after her debts carrying out this crazy scheme?
There was no way for Xyla to find out about all of this...
Although Xyla had many concerns in her heart, she didn't intend to discuss them with Stanley.
She didn't want Stanley to be worried too...
However, what Xyla didn't know was that Stanley was also thinking about the same questions.
Like her, he also felt equally worried. However, he didn't dare tell her about how he felt.
"Alright, let's stop thinking about these things... Shall we continue sleeping?" Stanley pretended to be light-hearted as he looked at her gently. Xyla nodded tenderly. "Okay..."
Soon, the two of them lay down as they hugged each other tightly.
However, with thoughts in their minds, neither of them was able to fall asleep.
They didn't know whether their creditor, who was almost like a time bomb in their lives, would do something crazy at this juncture...
The two of them only gradually fell asleep at the break of dawn from exhaustion.
At six o'clock in the morning, Xyla's phone started ringing.
As she had promised her father she would return home for breakfast today, she had set an alarm early the day before.
When the alarm rang, Xyla and Stanley were still sound asleep.
Xyla felt extremely agitated by being suddenly woken up...
The moment she opened her eyes, she felt a sharp pain in her head...
Immediately after that, her eyes also started hurting.
It felt extremely terrible...
On top of that, she didn't get enough rest. Hence, Xyla was in a very poor mood.
All these feelings combined made her feel as if she would soon explode.
Meanwhile, Stanley also quickly opened her eyes next to her.
As soon as he opened his eyes, an endless sense of fatigue and a terrible headache swept over him. It was agonizing...
Chapter 1596
Chapter 1596
Seeing that Xyla Quest was also awake, Stanley Batton immediately ignored his physical discomfort and hugged her tightly. "Did you sleep well last night?" he asked. "Yeah. What about you?" Xyla lied.
Stanley lied in return. "Very well... Let's get out of bed and get ready. Aren't we going back to your father's house for breakfast?"
***
After cleaning up, the two of them felt much more energized...
Once Xyla was done putting on make-up and wearing her clothes, she went over to her father's house next door with Stanley.
When Stanley parked his car in the Quest family's courtyard, the gardener was busy tending to the plants in the small garden within the courtyard...
The two of them were greeted by a breeze that brought with it a scent of trees and plants, instantly easing the discomfort they felt.
Although Xyla didn't rest well, she looked like a white peony in full bloom thanks to skincare products and the help of her nude make-up...
Xyla's face was soft and smooth. Coupled with the white shirt that had a huge butterfly knot, as well as a knee-length houndstooth skirt, Xyla appeared unusually bright and attractive. Meanwhile, Stanley wore a white, wrinkle-free shirt and a pair of gray trousers next to her. He also had on a gray tuxedo coat and a vest...
Stanley looked almost like a noble and elegant prince...
There wasn't a hint of exhaustion on his face. Instead, there was only coldness and indifference...
After the two of them got out of the car, they held each other's hands and walked into the house.
At the same time, in the kitchen, Betty Starmount quickly retrieved a translucent bead from the platinum pendant around her neck...
Immediately after that, she hastily crushed the bead with her nails and dripped the translucent liquid into a large bowl of bird's nest with rock sugar on the table.
The moment the liquid dripped into the bowl of the bird's nest, Xyla opened the door and walked into the living room with Stanley.
When Betty heard the noise, she quickly clenched the bead's outer shell tightly in her hand. She then walked into the bathroom next door and swiftly threw it into the basin... After that, Betty turned on the faucet and flushed the bead's outer shell into the drainage...
The moment it was flushed away, Betty smiled satisfactorily.
However, the smile didn't reach her eyes.
There was still a coldness deep in her eyes.
Jeremy Quest happened to walk down the stairs just as Xyla and Stanley walked through the doors.
When Jeremy saw the two of them, he immediately smiled affectionately. "Hurry up and wash your hands. Let's have breakfast... Betty has already prepared everything..." "Alright..." Xyla replied with a faint smile. After that, she led Stanley into the bathroom.
Right then, Betty coincidentally finished washing her hands and turned off the faucet.
Observing that Xyla and Stanley had entered through the spotless mirror, Betty immediately changed her facial expression into one of incomparable gentleness. Betty walked up to the two of them and smiled widely. "Xyla... Stan, you're home... Breakfast is ready. Wash your hands and get ready to eat breakfast..." "Okay..." Xyla replied politely.
After that, Betty walked out of the bathroom.
The moment she walked out, her smile became cold once again...
However, it very quickly disappeared.
The minor shift in her facial expression was so quick that nobody would notice it at all.
Chapter 1597
Chapter 1597
Xyla Quest and Stanley Batton walked into the Quest family's dining room after washing their hands.
By then, Betty Starmount and Jeremy Quest had already sat on their respective seats.
When Betty saw Xyla entering, she pushed a bowl of bird's nest with rock sugar close to Xyla's seat. "Xyla... Have some more bird's nests. It's good for the babies..."
Immediately after that, Betty stood up and placed a bowl of bird's nest in front of Jeremy. "Darling, here's yours as well... You ought to eat more of it too. That'll boost your immune system and keep illnesses away..."
Although Jeremy wasn't keen on eating it, he could see how genuine Betty seemed. Hence, he picked up a spoon and started eating.
Betty smiled satisfactorily when she saw this. After that, she placed a bowl of bird's nest in front of Stanley too. "Stan, you should eat some too..."
Stanley shook his head. "No... I don't like bird's nests. You guys can have it..."
Betty chuckled. "I don't like eating it either... It's fine if you don't want to eat it. We'll leave it for Xyla and my darling."
Xyla slowly picked up a spoon and swirled it in the bowl of bird's nest with rock sugar. "Thank you..."
"You're welcome... Have some more..." Betty added.
"Okay," Xyla said before scooping a spoonful of bird's nest with rock sugar into her mouth.
She was extremely pleased with its sweetness and smooth texture.
"Xyla... From now on, you and Stan should come home for meals in the morning and at night... Now that Xyla is pregnant, as her father, I want to look after Xyla by taking care of her diet...
"I'll get someone to buy the freshest and most nutritious ingredients every day... What do you think?" Jeremy asked.
Xyla knew her father must have suddenly brought up this request because Betty wanted to get close to her and Stanley. Hence, Betty probably spoke to her father about this.
However, for peacekeeping and protecting his father's image, Xyla chose to nod in agreement. "Sure..."
Although Xyla didn't like seeing Betty, she wanted to see her father regularly and spend time with the old man.
As Jeremy's daughter, Xyla naturally couldn't refuse him when he made this request.
"Okay... I'll do as Xyla wishes..." Stanley said as he affectionately ruffled Xyla's hair.
Jeremy felt extremely happy to see how sweet the two of them behaved...
Now, he had the perfect companion by his side. Meanwhile, his daughter had also found a good husband. Jeremy felt like he was practically the luckiest man in the world... When Betty heard what they said, she immediately smiled coldly...
However, the coldness disappeared almost instantly.
All three of the people seated at the dining table had their heads lowered as they ate. None of them noticed it.
After the meal, Xyla and Stanley held each other's hands and stood up...
"Dad, we're going to work..." Xyla said with a smile.
"Alright... Be safe on the road," Jeremy said.
The exchange between father and daughter in the dining room was incredibly heart-warming.
After hearing Jeremy's reply, Xyla held Stanley by his hand and slowly walked out of the dining room...
When they arrived at the dining room entrance, a maid frantically ran out of the bathroom...
"What's the matter? Why do you seem so frantic?" Xyla asked when she saw how frantic the maid was.
The maid instantly walked up to Xyla. "The pipe in the bathroom is busted. I'm about to head out to find someone who can fix it..."
Chapter 1598
Chapter 1598
"The part that's busted is the area beneath the basin..." The maid added.
Betty Starmount instantly panicked when she heard this...
When she was washing her hands this morning, the platinum pendant around her neck had accidentally come undone...
After that, the translucent bead inside fell into the basin hole...
Did that thing fall all the way down?
What if it accidentally clung to the outer wall or was stuck somewhere? What if Xyla Quest and Stanley Batton discovered something unusual about it. What would Betty do? However, after thinking carefully, Betty felt that the odds were seemingly minute.
Very quickly, Betty let out a long sigh of relief...
However, just to be safe, Betty still stood up and walked over to the entrance. "I'll have a look... I'm very good at fixing pipes..." She looked at the maid as she spoke. Betty's father used to be a plumber...
Growing up, she'd personally watched how her father fixed pipes by his side.
Hence, fixing pipes happened to be something Betty knew how to do...
This was the first time she felt that the experience was helpful for her.
Xyla had a look of shock in her eyes when she heard this. "Do you know how to fix it?"
Xyla really didn't expect that a seemingly gentle and demure lady like Betty would actually know how to do stuff like this.
Betty smiled. "Yeah, I do..."
"Let the plumber fix it. It's dirty..." Stanley said blandly.
After that, Stanley looked at the maid. "Go and fetch someone."
However, Betty instantly chuckled when she saw this. She walked into the bathroom. "It's fine. I'll take care of something minor like this. You two shouldn't bother yourselves with it. Get to work if you need to..." With that, Betty rolled up her sleeves and stepped into the bathroom...
As soon as she entered, she dashed toward the basin...
Right then, the cabinet beneath the basin was open. Betty could see that the area connecting the basin and the pipe beneath it was busted...
This wasn't the main point. The main point was that the faucet above the basin was left open.
Water was flowing all over the place...
When Betty saw this, she tried to turn the faucet off. However, she discovered that the faucet wasn't working. She couldn't turn it off at all...
Immediately after that, Betty shifted her gaze to the sluice valves.
However, she noticed that the handwheels on the sluice valves had already fallen off. Right then, all the sluice valves were bare. There wasn't even any mechanism for her to operate...
This explained why the maid was so frantic earlier.
Water continued to flow out...
It had overflown the basin and was all over the floor.
The entire world seemed almost like an ocean.
Out of curiosity, Xyla, Stanley, and Jeremy entered the bathroom.
When they saw the flood in the bathroom, all three of them took in a breath of cold air.
"Hurry up and get someone to fix it..." Jeremy looked at Xyla and said.
After that, Jeremy stepped forward and tried to turn off the faucet. However, he discovered that it didn't work at all.
Seeing that all three of them had entered, Betty tried her best to calm her nerves. She looked at them while pretending to be calm. "Honestly, it's fine..."
Betty noticed a wrench pouch in the cabinet under the basin. She quickly opened the pouch and retrieved a wrench before using it as a replacement for handwheels to turn off all the sluice valves... Right then, the faucet stopped leaking...
Chapter 1599
Chapter 1599
Jeremy Quest immediately let out a long sigh of relief when he saw this. He looked approvingly at Betty Starmount. "Well done..." He said.
Betty chuckled. "Alright. Hurry up and get outside. I really don't need help..."
After that, Betty subconsciously looked around...
Once Betty made sure none of her beads were on the floor or in the cabinet, she quickly reconnected the pipe beneath the basin to the sewage pipe...
Betty immediately let out a sigh of relief after she was sure nothing was wrong...
Seeing that Betty did sort everything out, Xyla Quest let out a long sigh of relief too.
In the next second, Betty's gaze unintentionally landed somewhere in front of Xyla's feet...
Soon, Betty was able to see a small, translucent bead in front of Xyla's feet...
Xyla, Stanley Batton, and Jeremy Quest were completely unaware of this.
Betty suddenly panicked when she saw what was before her.
However, to avoid letting them see through her façade, she quickly suppressed her frantic nerves. After that, she looked away...
The more she was nervous, the more quickly she would end up exposing herself. Hence, she needed to remain calm...
After taking a deep breath, Betty stood up as if nothing happened. She quickly retrieved a face towel above the basin and wiped the water off her arms and palms. Immediately after that, Betty quickly walked toward Xyla to step on the bead...
However, Xyla stepped forward to get closer to Betty...
Xyla happened to step past the bead. It was now in the same position, completely unscathed.
Betty felt even more nervous when she saw this...
However, Xyla hadn't noticed Betty's nervousness at all. Instead, she looked at the pipes that Betty had fixed. "You fixed it well..." Xyla complimented.
Betty chuckled a little. "You're too nice. It was just a simple task of reconnecting the pipes. So it's not a big deal."
In the next second, Betty's gaze landed ever so briefly on the small, translucent bead...
"We'll be leaving if there's nothing else..." Xyla turned around and looked at Jeremy. Jeremy nodded.
After that, Xyla quickly walked back to Stanley's side and naturally grabbed his arm...
This time, Xyla was still able to step past the bead without crushing it.
The bead was right behind her heel...
When Betty saw this, she genuinely hoped that Xyla could unknowingly crush the bead and make it disappear...
Right then, Stanley noticed the small bead when his gaze unintentionally landed on the ground.
Stanley frowned slightly before fixing his gaze on the bead. "What is this?" he asked.
This time, Betty felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her chest...
The thing she wanted least to happen still happened in the end.
They still ended up discovering the bead...
When Xyla and Jeremy heard this, they immediately looked in the direction where Stanley was looking.
Xyla and Jeremy were both a little stunned when they saw the small, translucent bead.
Xyla slowly bent over and picked the small bead up. She then held it against the light and carefully examined it.
Betty immediately broke into a cold sweat when she saw this...
'What do I do...' She thought.
What would Betty do if Xyla discovered something unusual about it?
What would she have to do?
Chapter 1600
Chapter 1600
"Isn't this what you often keep in your pendant?" Stanley Batton looked at Betty Starmount and asked. Betty nodded. "Yes..."
After that, she quickly stepped forward and grabbed the small bead before placing it in her small pendant.
Her heart was beating extremely fast the entire time.
Betty was genuinely worried that they might see through her façade.
She felt extremely nervous. It was as if something in her would snap at any second.
"This bead... It looks unique. What brand does it belong to?" Xyla casually asked as she glanced indifferently at the bead.
Betty chuckled. "I bought it online. It's a non-mainstream brand. Do you like it? I could buy it for you if you like it..."
"I don't wear these things." Xyla shook her head.
When Betty saw that Xyla and Stanley hadn't discovered anything unusual, she secretly sighed in relief...
"Oh, right. Our company will be shooting our film soon. There are some decent scripts. I'll get Georgie to send them to you via email... You can pick one that you like..." Xyla said. Since Betty was her father's girlfriend, Xyla still had to treat her decently...
Mainly, it was out of respect for her father.
Xyla knew that her father would be happy if she did this...
Even if Xyla was against their relationship, she had already agreed to them being together. So she couldn't express anything negative on the surface.
Meanwhile, Betty got close to her father for no reason other than his resources and money...
If Xyla gave Betty some benefits, Betty would also be more caring toward her father.
Compared to many other things, her father's health and happiness came first.
When Betty heard this, her smile immediately widened. "Thank you, Xyla..." she said.
"Don't worry about it..." Xyla smiled a little. She remained polite as she should.
Nearby, Jeremy also felt extremely happy on the inside when he saw Xyla behaving in such a mature manner.
Indeed, Xyla was his beloved daughter. She was truly thoughtful.....
"Alright, let's go, honey..." Xyla said as she held onto Stanley's arm tightly.
After that, the two of them departed together.
Betty secretly let out a long sigh of relief after watching the two of them leave...
***
At the same time, a white Benz-Mercedes moved steadily toward the airport on a flat tar road...
Meanwhile, Annabeth Cates verified Josh's itinerary for the day with a serious expression on her face.
A warm ray of sunlight poured into the car, lighting up Josh's face. His beautiful face appeared unusually gentle.
After going through the itinerary, she looked up at Josh's face from the side.
His perfect jawline came into sight. On top of that, his intricate facial features from the side immediately left a deep impression on Annabeth's heart... Soon, Annabeth began recalling their intimate moments in the past...
Suddenly, her heart began racing wildly.
However, Annabeth quickly forced herself to suppress those vivid memories. Finally, she dragged herself back to reality.
Regardless of how many times she'd seen Josh's face before, she would still be mesmerized by it...
His face seemed to have a kind of magical power over her.
"Josh... I'd like to brief you on our itinerary today," Annabeth said.
"Sure." Josh slowly opened his eyes and shifted his gaze to Annabeth's face.