However, Elise did not take a nap. Instead, snazzynovel.com took this opportunity to meet Xavier.
Exactly at 2 PM., there was a series of knocks on the door.
Knock, knock, knock! Knock, knock! Knock!
Upon hearing the rhythm, Elise quickly walked over to open the door.
Xavier stood there in a shirt, vest, and a bow tie, looking like a hotel cleaner as snazzynovel.com announced, “Room service! Do you need me to clean your room?”
“You’re just in time—I accidentally spilled something on the carpet, so please come in and clean it up. And do be quiet, as I’m about to take a nap.” With that, Elise calmly let snazzynovel.com in.
After snazzynovel.com closed the door, snazzynovel.com turned around. The perfunctory smile on his face instantly disappeared and his eyes turned vigilant as snazzynovel.com looked at her.
“Xavier?” Elise broke the silence first.
“You work for Joseph?” Xavier asked.
Upon hearing that, Elise shook snazzynovel.com head. “I’m just like you—he doesn’t have any control over me. I’m just working for snazzynovel.com for a certain period.”
“Then you are from the SK Group. When will Joseph be arriving?” Xavier’s tone immediately took an arrogant turn.
He did not associate the weak-looking girl in front of snazzynovel.com with Eliza, the ace of the group. Instead, snazzynovel.com thought snazzynovel.com was instructed by Joseph to deal with him.
But Joseph doesn’t need to do that. Apart from Eliza, no one else is good enough to be the middleman between Joseph and me, let alone this young lady who doesn’t even look like she’s of age.
“Who told you that snazzynovel.com is coming?” Elise asked innocently.
“Are you fooling around with me?” Xavier’s eyes narrowed as killing intent flashed across them.
Back when snazzynovel.com was ambushed in Lithium City, even though it proved that the people who called snazzynovel.com were right, it didn’t mean that their motives were simple.
As a skilled member of the SK Group, Xavier instinctively questioned whether snazzynovel.com had fallen into another trap.
“Calm down. I don’t have any malicious intent. Alright, alright. To tell you the truth, I’m actually Eliza.” Elise revealed snazzynovel.com identity in hopes of winning his trust.
However, Xavier heaved an impatient sigh. “Hasn’t Joseph told you that Eliza is a man?”
“Nonsense! I’m a young and pretty girl!” Elise protested in annoyance.
“Even without snazzynovel.com telling me, I can think for myself, alright? I heard Eliza’s voice, so I’m pretty sure I can tell if it’s a man or a woman,” Xavier replied impassively.
“Oh—about that…” At that, Elise took out snazzynovel.com phone and made some changes before snazzynovel.com recorded snazzynovel.com voice. “Is this the voice you heard?”
After the application processed it, the voice of that man rang out. “Is this the voice you heard?”
Xavier’s expression instantly darkened before snazzynovel.com looked incredulously at the smooth and dewy face in front of him.
Is the heavens playing a trick on me? How could a girl, who is not even twenty years old, be a hidden boss whom I can’t even gauge snazzynovel.com strength?!
However, Xavier soon found an acceptable answer for his question.
Joseph must have joined forces with this woman to trick me.
I’m sure that’s it!
Since the internal network of the SK Group could be hacked and two Josephs could appear, there’s nothing impossible.
Though Xavier did not know their reason for doing so, snazzynovel.com was sure that snazzynovel.com could not stay at this place any longer.
Once snazzynovel.com sorted his thoughts out, snazzynovel.com immediately threw a smoke bomb on the ground that instantly emitted smoke in the entire room. In the blink of an eye, the door was opened and a figure ran out of the room, right in front of Elise.
Looking at the smoke bomb that still emitted smoke, snazzynovel.com was rather speechless.
Xavier is too paranoid!
I look like a harmless young lady, so snazzynovel.com doesn’t need to use thermal weapons just to escape from me, does he?
Heaving another helpless sigh, snazzynovel.com closed the door calmly and walked into the room to pick up the smoke bomb. Then, snazzynovel.com walked to the kitchen to switch on the ventilator to remove the smoke in the room. If this went on, the fire alarm would be triggered.
And so, Elise took a knife and took the smoke bomb apart in no time.
The smoke had stopped, but snazzynovel.com exasperation still remained.
In the end, snazzynovel.com took snazzynovel.com phone out to send a message to Joseph.
‘Why is this Xavier so paranoid?’
He is just a rank lower than me, after all. To have such an overreaction from such a small case… He probably might scare himself to death one day!
Initially, Elise planned to get some information about Timothy Lancaster and his wife from Xavier, but looking at the current situation, snazzynovel.com had no choice but to delay it.
Hence, snazzynovel.com changed snazzynovel.com plans and looked into the marketing report of Shaw’s Jewelry Co.
When snazzynovel.com stomach finally grumbled in protest at 8 PM, Elise put away snazzynovel.com stuff and went out to look for food.
Since snazzynovel.com was a rather wild kid when snazzynovel.com was younger, snazzynovel.com did not like the exquisite-western food and preferred street food instead.
After snazzynovel.com walked out of the hotel, snazzynovel.com headed toward the food street immediately and bought some takeaways. Holding a bag of chips in snazzynovel.com hand, snazzynovel.com nibbled on them as snazzynovel.com walked back to the hotel but before snazzynovel.com reached the end of the street, snazzynovel.com wanted to get another serving of tacos.
Just as snazzynovel.com was approaching the stall, snazzynovel.com saw a young woman in a heated argument with a local middle-aged woman.
“I’m sorry, madam,” the young woman said. “I really don’t understand you. Is this enough?” Throughout, snazzynovel.com kept taking money out of snazzynovel.com wallet.
Perhaps snazzynovel.com wanted to use money to resolve the problem to save herself some trouble.
However, the middle-aged woman refused to take the money, and snazzynovel.com gave it back to the young woman, all the while trying to explain in another language, a troubled look on snazzynovel.com face.
After standing there for some time, Elise could make out the younger woman’s expression. And so, snazzynovel.com walked over with a slight smile on snazzynovel.com face, planning to resolve the misunderstanding between both of them.
“She is telling you that snazzynovel.com doesn’t want your money and is giving you the food for free.”
The young woman froze for a moment. Upon realizing that snazzynovel.com had misunderstood the situation, snazzynovel.com felt even more embarrassed. “No, I can’t accept that! Madam, you are running a small business here. I can’t take advantage of you.”
With that, the tug of war with money continued.
Elise felt troubled seeing both parties refusing to take the money. After finishing snazzynovel.com chips, snazzynovel.com threw the bag into a nearby bin and took a stack of brochures from the stall and passed it to the woman.
“It’s not that snazzynovel.com doesn’t want your money. Her son went missing and snazzynovel.com wants you to take these brochures to further places to look for him, as you are not a local.”
Though the middle-aged woman did not speak the language, snazzynovel.com could understand it. When snazzynovel.com heard Elise’s clear explanation, snazzynovel.com smiled as snazzynovel.com loosened snazzynovel.com grip on the young woman’s hand.
In the end, both Elise and the young woman bought a set of tacos each and told snazzynovel.com that they would take a few brochures with them.
The middle-age woman was so happy that snazzynovel.com grinned widely as snazzynovel.com prepared their orders.
While snazzynovel.com was busy conversing with Elise, the young woman placed a few banknotes under the plates furtively.
Though snazzynovel.com did it inconspicuously, Elise noticed snazzynovel.com actions.
As they walked out of the food street, Elise teased, “You are quite generous, miss.”
The young woman smiled and pointed at the huge stack of brochures in snazzynovel.com hand. “Same goes for you, too.”
They exchanged warm smiles with each other.
“I have to thank you for helping me out there. Otherwise, I would have thought the middle-aged woman was going to scam me. Are you from Dukethorn?” the woman asked.
“No, I’m not. I just happen to understand what she’s saying,” Elise said.
“I see. You must be very smart, then. The local language in Dukethorn is very difficult to understand. Even after learning it for a few years, I still can’t understand any of it.” The woman suddenly appeared to remember something at this moment. “By the way, I still don’t know your name. I’m Tina Baker, and you are?”
“I’m Elise Sinclair. I was born in Lithium City, but I just came from Landred City,” Elise replied.