The long-awaited first love ended without a problem before it even started. The sad girl couldn't rest all night until dawn. Caroline simply packed her luggage and left her room.
She had planned to leave quietly, and he didn't necessarily care about herself anyway.
The hotel corridor was empty, leading to the elevator room to the left, and not far from the right was Eric's room. She looked around, hesitated, and finally couldn't hold back some expectations in her heart, and found a room for herself. For good reason, it would be rude of her upbringing to leave without saying goodbye.
Arriving at the door of Eric's room, Caroline stretched out her hand and pressed the doorbell, then waited quietly, quickly thinking about what to say later, maybe he would keep her again, in this case, she would forgive him for what he said yesterday Yes, she has always thought that she is a very tolerant girl, not to mention that she likes him so much.
Then the door opened, and the tall blonde girl from yesterday afternoon appeared in front of her. The girl was simply wearing a pink silk pajamas. A smooth and round beautiful leg, anyone can see this situation, she must have lived here last night.
"Good morning, Miss Wilson, Eric is just at 1↓, taking a shower, what can you do?" Claudia turned sideways and politely motioned Caroline to come in. In other performances, she is a very smart woman, and she never takes the initiative to ask about other women around Eric.
Caroline stood in front of Claudia, who was much taller than herself, shrunk her neck with a little inferiority, and resisted the sourness in her heart. Slightly twitched his little nose. He whispered: "Miss Schiffer. I just came to say goodbye to Eric, please tell him that I'm back to London."
After the girl finished speaking, she walked towards the elevator in a panic without waiting for Claudia to reply.
Claudia looked at the girl's distraught back, walked back to the guest room, knocked on the bathroom door, and told Eric what happened just now.
Caroline walked out of the hotel. I was standing on the side of the road preparing to stop a taxi when I heard a voice behind me calling me. I turned around and saw that Eric had already chased him out.
Eric came to the girl and stood still, heaved a sigh of relief, buttoned the last two buttons of his shirt, and said, "Caroline, I'll take you to the airport later, I'm worried about you as a girl."
The girl was a little moved when she heard Eric's words. But immediately he turned his back angrily: "No need, Eric. You'd better... go back to accompany Miss Schiffer, I can go back by myself."
Eric buttoned up his shirt, ignored Caroline's words just now, and took the girl's small luggage: "Come on, I'll let someone buy you a plane ticket, it's best to have breakfast first, don't eat Not breakfast."
After Eric finished speaking, seeing Caroline still pursed her thin pink lips and remained motionless, he had no choice but to resort to a trick, reached out to hold the girl's little hand, and walked towards the hotel.
The moment she was held by Eric's warm and rough hand, the resistance in Caroline's heart disappeared completely. With her head lowered and her face flushed, she followed Eric quietly like an obedient baby. around.
After breakfast, Eric took Caroline to Berlin Schönefeld Airport in the hotel car, helped the girl get the ticket, and contacted Rachel in London to pick her up when she arrived, and stayed with her all the time The girl waited until the flight to London started to board, and Eric watched Caroline walk up the boarding aisle with relief.
Hearing the sound of the door being opened, Claudia, who was leaning on the sofa in the living room watching TV, stood up and leaned on the back of the sofa to look at Eric: "Sent away?"
Eric nodded slightly, and came over to stop the girl's slender waist from leaning on the sofa.
Claudia felt Eric's disappointment, and couldn't help but said, "Since you like her too, why did you let her go?"
"Because I'm a good person." Eric shook his head mockingly, seeing the girl in his arms rolling her eyes, and said, "Do you know who she is?"
"How could you not know, the only daughter of the Earl of Berkshire Wilson, I heard about it when I was in Hollywood last month. The newspapers were everywhere saying that you planned to marry him. When I came here yesterday, I was afraid You're going to drive me away because I'm a commoner."
Eric gently pinched Claudia's soft waist: "Okay, stop teasing me, have you had breakfast?"
"Of course," Claudia grinned and rubbed her arms into Eric's arms: "I'm going out to play today, and I can be your tour guide too."
As soon as Caroline was sent away, he immediately brought another girl to appear in public. Eric himself had no worries, but if it appeared in the newspaper, it would definitely embarrass Caroline and her family. Eric planned to He refused, thought for a while, and found a travel booklet from the pile of magazines under the coffee table. After flipping through it for a while, he said, "Let's go to other cities, so we can get rid of the paparazzi. How about Prague?"
Claudia also brought her head closer. Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic, only more than two hundred kilometers away from Berlin. However, the girl shook her head and said, "I need a visa to go to Prague. Although the tourist visa is very fast, today There's no way we're going anywhere."
Eric also realized that the European Union has only been established for two years now, and there are only six member states. After flicking his finger on the map for a while, Eric picked the Netherlands, which is also an EU country: "Then go to Amsterdam."
"Okay, I'm going to change clothes, and I'll call my agent by the way, he's in Paris to help me negotiate an endorsement contract," Claudia stood up and walked towards the bedroom.
Eric hastily flipped through a travel brochure and walked into the bedroom. Claudia had changed into another pair and was standing by the desk, taking out her mobile phone and address book from her Chanel bag Look up the number.
Eric glanced at Claudia casually, and was about to walk towards the closet, but was caught by the mobile phone in her hand.
Claudia just found the broker's temporary number and was about to call. I felt Eric coming behind me. He reached over and took his mobile phone. He put his arm around her waist.
Claudia thought that Eric had suddenly become interested, so she turned her head and glared at him with some reproach. Just as she was about to lie down on the big desk, she found that Eric was carefully playing with her mobile phone .
Claudia blushed for the thought just now, and turned to face Eric: "Is there any problem?"
Holding the mobile phone in his hand, Eric approached Claudia and kissed the corner of her curved lips apologetically: "Sorry, baby, we may not be able to go to Amsterdam. But maybe in a few days, I can take you around Finland."
"What?" Claudia asked in bewilderment.
Eric pointed to the eye-catching 'nokia' logo on the mobile phone: "This mobile phone is from Finland."
Claudia still has a puzzled expression, but Eric is a little excited. He has been thinking about Apple, but he has ignored Nokia, which dominated the global mobile phone market with more than 40% of the market share before the appearance of the Apple mobile phone. A Big Mac whose highest market value once exceeded 200 billion U.S. dollars.
Moreover, in the original time and space, Apple only began to rise slowly in 2007. It is too far away from now, and the rapid development of Nokia is something that will happen in the last few years. If you can step in now, it will be another huge fortune.
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Rachel was sitting in the departure hall of Heathrow Airport, listening helplessly to the noise of a strike-up person beside her, staring at the entrance and exit not far away, until a familiar figure appeared in the field of vision, Rachel Heaving a sigh of relief, he stood up and said to a handsome young man next to him, "Sorry, Mr. Luke, my girlfriend is back."
Rachel deliberately emphasized the word "girlfriend", and ignored the young man's surprised expression after speaking, and walked straight to Caroline.
After getting closer, Rachel noticed Caroline's strangeness. The girl's sharp white and tender face had no aura in the past, her thin lips were drawn into a line, her eyelashes were drooping, and her fluffy and slightly curly beautiful blond hair At this time, it is drooping softly, each strand looks so listless, the little person is floating in the crowd, it feels like a poor cat that was just abandoned by the owner and drenched in heavy rain .
"Caroline, what's the matter with you?" Rachel stepped forward and asked with concern.
Caroline looked up and saw that it was Rachel, her pursed lips immediately collapsed, her eyes were red and she threw herself into Rachel's arms: "Woo, woo, Rachel, he... he refused me gone."
Rachel, who originally thought that something big had happened, was relieved when she heard Caroline's words, but she also knew that it was definitely a big deal for this young girl who was just in love. So Rachel still hugged the girl tightly, patted her on the back and comforted her: "Okay, don't cry, I told you a long time ago, Eric Williams is a playboy, You were..."
"Whoa, he's not," the girl retorted, sobbing.
Rachel was a little helpless, but she had no choice but to follow the girl in her arms: "Okay, he's not."
"Whoa, he's a badass," the girl said quickly and whimpered.
"Well, he's a badass," Rachel agreed.
Caroline cried in Rachel's arms for a long time before she finally stopped sobbing and said softly, "Rachel, I miss my mother."
Rachel wiped the girl's face, hung her backpack over her shoulder, took Caroline's little hand and walked out: "Let's go, I'll take you home."
Caroline followed Rachel obediently until the two of them left the airport hall, then suddenly murmured: "He took my hand."
Rachel took out the keys, opened the door of her large-displacement Jaguar Sovereign, stuffed the girl into the co-pilot, and said, "I know, today's "Daily Mail" published a photo."
Caroline looked at Rachel nervously: "Then, what did they say?"
"Whatever they do, the Daily Mail is a gossip-loving tabloid."
As Rachel said, she started the car and turned around onto the highway. Caroline saw that she was habitually about to slam on the gas pedal, so she didn't care to ask, so she quickly put on her seat belt and said, "Rachel, drive slowly." How about a little, it's too dangerous."
"Okay, baby. I'll listen to you today." Rachel lowered the speed of the car. She had visited Caroline's family's estate several times, so she didn't need a girl to show her the way. After leaving the airport area, she drove northwest along the highway.
After the speed of the car stabilized, Rachel tentatively asked: "Do you feel better, do you want to tell me what's going on?"
After a moment of silence, Caroline said softly: "He suddenly said yesterday that we are not suitable."
Seeing the girl throw such a sentence, Rachel didn't speak again. I couldn't help but sighed in my heart, and didn't ask any more questions. She knew that Caroline still had a deep affection for Eric, so she must have concealed something for him at this time. Eight cows can't pull back the right things.
King Jaguar passed by the town of Windsor, walked more than ten kilometers, and came to the Wilson Manor beside a tributary of the Thames River.
The gatekeeper of the manor saw the car parked outside the gate, and stepped forward to ask a few questions. I saw the car window roll down, revealing the obviously haggard little face of my lady: "Mark. It's me."
"Miss, you are finally back. Madam still mentioned you in the morning. I will inform Madam right away. Oh, I will open the door for you first." The middle-aged man named Mark greeted Caroline respectfully, and hurriedly moved The big iron gate of the manor was opened before he walked into the security booth and picked up the phone.
Although it was not the first time to visit here, Rachel still couldn't help feeling a little bit moved and envious when he drove through the long corridor of the Wilson Manor and looked at the large manor with dozens of acres in front of him. The British aristocratic class has long since declined. The maintenance costs of traditional aristocratic manors and castles are extremely high, and because of the inheritance tax of 75% in the UK, it is difficult for most nobles with weak economic strength to maintain their ancestral properties and have to sell a large number of manors. Castles were donated, or simply abandoned. The Earl Wilson family is one of the few nobles in England that are still prosperous today.
The car stopped by the side of the road. Before Rachel got out of the car, she saw a graceful woman walking out of the castle with a few maids. Seeing the figure of her mother, Caroline jumped up in a hurry. Get out of the car and run towards the woman.
Rachel got out of the car, opened the rear door and just took out Caroline's luggage bag, when a maid greeted her and took the backpack.
Mrs. Wilson also came over with her daughter at this time, and stretched out her hand to Rachel: "Miss Vichy, thank you for taking care of Caroline during this time."
"You're welcome, Mrs. Wilson, Caroline is my good friend, and this is what I should do," Rachel replied politely. She got along well with Caroline mainly because the girl's pure personality concealed the sense of distance brought about by the aristocratic manners she cultivated since childhood. However, facing Mrs. Wilson, Rachel always felt a little restrained, and couldn't wait to get along with her. He planned to leave and leave: "Ma'am, since Caroline has arrived home safely, I think I should go back to London. I have some things to do in the afternoon."
"If it's not something important, let's stay for lunch." Mrs. Wilson still had a gentle smile and made a gentle gesture of invitation, while Caroline stepped forward to hold Rachel: " Stay here, Rachel, we talked on the phone the night before, and I know you'll be fine this afternoon."
Rachel was punctured on the spot, her cheeks became slightly hot, and she really wanted to reach out and pinch this silly girl's cheek. Looking at Mrs. Wilson whose smile didn't change at all, Rachel could only nod slightly: "Then excuse me."
Hearing Rachel's promise, Caroline couldn't wait to pull her towards the castle, and Mrs. Wilson, who was with her daughter, said at this moment: "Caroline, go and say hello to your father first, he is in the study .”
"I see, Mom."
"Also, Matthew and Robert will come back for lunch, and the little guy will come too."
Caroline asked in surprise, "What about Charles?"
"He went to New York a week ago." Mrs. Wilson looked at her daughter dotingly. "Your sister is so incompetent that she doesn't even know her brother's whereabouts."
Caroline stuck out her tongue coquettishly, but quickly retracted it under Mrs. Wilson's stare.
Rachel, who was with them, only felt her scalp tingling. Because of Caroline's chatty nature, she knew the situation of Earl Wilson's family very well. The current Earl James Wilson had three sons and a daughter, and the three sons happened to be It was the three names mentioned by the mother and daughter just now. Caroline is the youngest child in the family. Although Countess Edith Wilson looks only in her forties, it is only because of good maintenance. She is much older. Her eldest son Matthew and second son Robert are both married and have children. Only Charles, who is four years older than Caroline, is still single, but it is said that he is also engaged.
Listening to the conversation between the mother and daughter, people in this big family will gather almost at noon. Thinking of this, Rachel's uneasiness intensifies, but it turns out that there is nothing wrong with her bad feeling.
As noon approached, there were more and more people in Earl Wilson's castle. The host's two sons brought their wives and children, and there were several waves of other guests, which made Rachel feel a strong sense of escape. Fortunately, The considerate Countess seemed to feel Rachel's emotions, and just after lunch, she whispered a few words to her daughter, and Caroline took Rachel back to her room. (To be continued..)