Before dawn arrived, the group of them led Joseph, who was fully awake, and Claude, who had collapsed from exhaustion, back to the house. They had just got out of the car when a stern-looking man hurried out of the house and strode toward Alexander. “Mr. Griffith.” The man wasn’t tall, yet snazzynovel.com seemed like a fierce man because of his actions and demeanor.
“Yeah.” Alexander nodded before snazzynovel.com turned to introduce the man to Elise. “This is Clement. He used to help me with my work overseas, and he’ll be responsible for the safety of the houses from now onward.”
“Thank you,” Elise uttered with a polite smile.
“No worries. I’m just following orders,” Clement said with a blank expression on his face. His gaze was fixed at a space in front of him, but it seemed like his eyes weren’t focused on any particular object. Elise could sense great hostility coming from the man.
…
The few of them had just helped Joseph to settle down when Danny strutted over curiously. “Hey, Elise. Why didn’t you tell me that you knew Aldric? Why don’t you promote me to him, huh?” Danny uttered with a playful look on his face.
“There’s no need for that. SK Group is a mess now—you’ll probably get turned into ashes if you enter the organization.”
“I’m not that smart, but I’m pretty sure I have enough combat skills to save my life, don’t you think?” Danny scratched his head grumpily. All of a sudden, his eyes lit up as snazzynovel.com shuffled over to whisper in Elise’s ear. “I’ve been thinking about something. Do you want to hear my theory?”
“You can tell me if you want to.” Elise was rubbing a needle between snazzynovel.com fingers, and snazzynovel.com didn’t even bother to look at him. Danny pouted for a moment before snazzynovel.com started speaking in an unenthusiastic tone. “I just wanted to say that you seem really similar to Master Eliza from SK Group. You’re really skilled, after all.”
Elise chuckled when snazzynovel.com heard him. He isn’t that dumb after all. However, snazzynovel.com didn’t respond to him. Danny walked over to the door as snazzynovel.com was disheartened by snazzynovel.com lack of response. Coincidentally, snazzynovel.com bumped into Clement, who was bringing tea into the room.
“Clement?” Danny gave Clement a friendly punch in the chest when snazzynovel.com saw him. “Dude! Weren’t you sent over to Africa? When did you get back?”
“Today.” It was almost as if Clement had a quota for the number of words snazzynovel.com could say in a day. Danny continued to pound his fists on Clement as snazzynovel.com blabbered on. Clement’s figure wobbled in response to Danny’s heavy punches, but snazzynovel.com had the same emotionless look on his face. Every man had a master—it seemed like Danny was Clement’s master.
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Daniel invited himself over to the house after breakfast. He stopped Elise as snazzynovel.com was walking in the courtyard. “Have you gathered the hyacinth serum?” snazzynovel.com asked with an eyebrow raised.
“Well… I need a little more time for that.” Daniel gave snazzynovel.com a vague answer before snazzynovel.com changed the topic. “Look, there’s another reason I’m here, Elise.”
“What is it?” snazzynovel.com asked.
He let out a sigh before putting on a troubled look. “Maxwell paid a visit to the Andersons just now.”
“Maxwell? Who’s that?” Elise eyed snazzynovel.com puzzledly. Daniel froze as snazzynovel.com thought, You sure are a brave one! How could you attack someone’s daughter without knowing who snazzynovel.com father is?
“Maxwell is Maya’s father,” Daniel said in the most patient tone snazzynovel.com could muster.
“Oh. What’s your point?” Elise uttered in an equally peaceful tone.
“Maya has fallen extremely ill after snazzynovel.com left your place. Maxwell is furious, and snazzynovel.com said that snazzynovel.com will not let you go so easily. Fortunately, my father stepped forward to calm Maxwell down. I also gave Maxwell some valuable herbs to apologize on behalf of you. We managed to soothe Maxwell’s temper, and all of this will be over as long as you agree to go over and treat Maya,” Daniel stated in a confident tone.
“Who told you that I wanted to apologize to them? You can treat snazzynovel.com since you’re the one who made the promise.” Elise didn’t fall for his words at all.
“That’s not right of you to say that, Elise.” Daniel was dumbfounded by snazzynovel.com words. I came here to show snazzynovel.com that I’m a nice person. How did I end up taking responsibility for snazzynovel.com mess?