Sensing Eric's movement, Caroline's long eyelashes trembled, she opened her eyes carefully, and boldly looked at Eric for a second, then reached out and grabbed Eric's big hand with her little hand, Rubbing his cheeks, he murmured, "Eric, I, I like you."
"I know," Eric said softly, without pulling back his hand, feeling the girl's delicate skin, and said, "Hey, the weather is fine tonight, I'll take you to drag racing, okay, we'll go back to Los Angeles at night , or, Las Vegas."
Caroline paused, opened her eyes again, looked at Eric resentfully, still holding his hand, shrank silently into the quilt.
After such a stalemate for a while, Eric had to coax softly again: "Carly, I actually like you very much, but we can't do this."
After another short silence, Caroline finally raised her face and whispered, "Eric, I'm already twenty-seven years old."
Feeling that the girl was no longer holding his hand tightly, Eric withdrew his hand, stroked Caroline's soft blond hair, and said with a smile: "Yeah, time flies, but little Carly is still It's so small. Maybe, you should also find a... well, girlfriend, I hope you find a girlfriend, girls are more considerate."
Caroline blinked quickly a few times when Eric said that, and hugged Eric's big hand back, resting her small head on his arm, and said in a low voice: "Eric, You are really bad."
Eric nodded, and defended himself: "It's not that bad, I'm a gentleman now."
"You," Caroline paused, avoiding Eric's eyes, hesitated, and said, "I, just said, I'm already twenty-seven years old. You, you can't treat me like a daughter. "
Eric froze for a moment, and couldn't help laughing: "Why do you have such a strange idea?"
"I… "
Caroline wanted to say something, but she just uttered a word, but she couldn't find a suitable explanation. After all, Melanie helped her 'analyze' it.
Eric also realized something, and said with a smile: "It seems that I must punish Mei well this time."
"You won't," Caroline responded, and said, "Then, if you didn't treat me... why did you treat me so well?"
"Because I regard you as my younger sister, brother cares about my younger sister, what's wrong?"
Caroline turned her head around, and felt that this reason was very reasonable, so she stopped worrying about the idea that Melanie buried in her heart at the beginning, and then, the girl's thoughts turned to tonight's matter again, thinking for a while , she blushed, took Eric's hand, and carefully wanted to send it to her chest.
Eric sensed the girl's intentions, struggled a little, and easily got rid of Caroline's little hand.
The situation in the room fell into silence again. Faced with Eric's rejection, Caroline slowly retracted her small body into the bed.
Eric sat on the edge of the bed and watched the girl's movements in embarrassment. Seeing that she hadn't moved for a while, he reached out and pulled some quilts away with some worry. Caroline was curled up like a kitten, her small face was covered with tears. Although she didn't cry out, big drops of tears kept overflowing from the corners of her eyes.
"Carly, actually, I like you very much too," Eric took out a few tissues from the bedside tissue box, and helped Caroline wipe away her tears with distress, and explained in a low voice: "But we really can't do this. Do."
Caroline still didn't cry aloud, and quietly let Eric wipe her tears. Then he asked in a low voice, his voice inevitably choked with sobs: "Why, why? You, obviously, like it very much, a woman."
Eric said: "I just said that I regard you as my sister."
Caroline's voice was still soft, but this time she immediately retorted: "I don't want to be your sister."
After saying this, the girl finally couldn't hold back her sobs, her tears became more violent, and she turned around to avoid Eric's hand wiping her tears.
Seeing Caroline's small body trembling slightly as she sobbed, Eric sighed again. After a brief hesitation, he got up and found his mobile phone, sat back on the bed, and slowly dialed a long time string number.
After asking Katzenberg to help with the DNA test, Eric couldn't hold back his curiosity after all, and secretly entrusted a private detective to inquire about a certain woman's information. He thought he would slowly forget about it in his heart , did not expect to face these today.
The room was very quiet. Although her back was facing Eric, Caroline could still hear a clear beeping sound from the microphone of the mobile phone, and then a female voice responded with some doubts: "Hello, this is Austria Livia, who are you?"
Hearing her aunt's familiar voice, Caroline stopped her sobbing, thinking that she should be in a state of 'angry' with Eric, so she resisted not turning around.
After all, he inherited all the memories of this body, and Eric still had some strange emotions in his heart. He exhaled softly, and then he said: "I am Eric Williams, and Carly is beside me. , come and give her an explanation."
After speaking in one breath, Eric handed the phone directly to Caroline, got up and walked out of his suite, and walked along the hotel corridor to the terrace at the end of the second floor.
I don't know who put a chair here, Eric sat on it without thinking too much, and looked at the dark mountains under the light starlight in the distance.
Maybe it's because of his two lives, Eric always has a natural alienation and indifference towards the world in his bones, which is probably because he had many women after his rebirth, but there are not many women staying by his side now for the sake. From the beginning, he didn't care much about whether to reveal his relationship with Caroline and some other people, he just didn't want too many people to intervene in his life.
But now, maybe, probably, suddenly there is a little cousin, which should be considered good.
Wearing a bathrobe and unable to find a cigarette, Eric sat for a while, confirmed that the phone call just now should be almost over, then got up and walked towards his room.
When I came to the door, I remembered that I forgot to take the room card when I came out, and raised my hand to knock on the door. After thinking about it, I walked to the door of the room next to Melanie and Caroline. The two women were in charge of his daily life. , also has a spare room card in hand.
With just two knocks, the door was pulled open.
Melanie thought Caroline was back, but when she saw Eric standing at the door in a bathrobe, she shrank her neck and said guiltily, "Ai, Eric, what's the matter?"
Eric stretched out his hand: "Give me the room card."
"Huh? Oh!" Melanie quickly took out a room card from her pocket and put it in Eric's hand. Just about to muster up the courage to ask a question, Eric just threw her a "I'll find you when I'm free." With a reckless look in his eyes, he turned and walked away.
Opening the door and walking into the bedroom lightly, Eric found that Caroline was still lying on his bed, and she hadn't hung up her phone either.
Seeing Eric appearing at the door, Caroline whispered, "Auntie, he's back, then, I'll hang up first... Well, bye."
After Caroline hung up the phone and put it aside, Eric came over, sat down by the bed, looked at the girl who was still huddled under the quilt, but didn't speak first.
Caroline also looked at Eric with bright eyes. After a while, the girl seemed to muster up her courage, and got out of the quilt and leaned over.
Eric was a little dazed, watching the girl in little clothes snuggle up, his body was a little stiff.
This unfolds, it doesn't seem right.
Didn't the woman tell her the truth
Looking around, Eric leaned over slightly, pulled up the quilt to wrap Caroline's small body, and said, "She, what did your aunt say to you?"
Caroline let Eric wrap herself in a quilt, and said softly: "My aunt asked me to say sorry to you for her, and she asked, can I come to Los Angeles to see you?"
Eric didn't care about these, and asked: "What else?"
Caroline's little courage seemed to stop at snuggling up to Eric, but she didn't dare to make too many movements, she just hugged his arm carefully, blinked her eyes, and said, "I, I didn't expect , you will be my cousin, no wonder you are so kind to me. Also, you all treat me as a child and don't tell me anything. "
When it came to the end, Caroline's tone contained a bit of coquettish resentment.
Feeling that something was wrong, Eric gently moved the arm held by Caroline, and said, "Then do you know what you are doing now?"
"Yeah." Caroline nodded slightly, following Eric's movements, she moved a little shyly, but did not let go of him.
"Well, Carly, don't you think you should go back to your room now?"
"I don't want to go back."
"But, I, am I your cousin?"
Caroline asked softly, "So what?"
"..."
Eric suddenly realized that he was a little speechless.
Feeling Eric's bewilderment, Caroline quickly said: "Eric, my aunt hopes that I can marry you, but I know you definitely don't want to, I just stay by your side, okay? "
"Well, well, huh? What did you just say?"
From Eric's reaction before he called his aunt, Caroline naturally knew his scruples. Seeing Eric's at a loss, the girl whispered: "In England, cousins can also get married. The Queen and his wife are cousins."
Eric retorted: "But this is California."
Caroline blinked and said, "California, it seems to be possible."
"..."
I didn't pay attention to this information before, Eric's three views were suddenly refreshed, and a series of complaints flashed in my mind.
This evil capitalism is really rotten!
Caroline was very happy when she finally understood why Eric was so special to her in the past but deliberately kept a distance.
The girl was pure-minded, and didn't think of too many family past events. She just thought that her parents, aunts and others knew about this matter but deliberately kept it from her out of good intentions.
Although, um, due to the relationship between the two, Eric seems to be unable to accept being too close to him, but as long as he takes the initiative, it will be fine.
He is such a bad guy.
Thinking of this, Caroline moved slightly, and tentatively called out in a low voice: "Cousin."
Eric felt his whole body trembling, and quickly said, "Don't call me that."
Caroline curled her mouth and nodded obediently: "Then, I will call you Eric from now on."
Eric finally regained his senses from the corrupt status quo of capitalism, feeling that he had a long way to go, and replied: "That's good, Carly, it's already late, can you go back to your room tonight?"
Caroline also knew that nothing would happen between the two of them tonight. She let go of Eric, pulled the corner of the quilt by herself, and said in a slightly coquettish tone: "May took all my clothes away, Eric , can you carry me back?"
Eric thought of deducting someone's salary again, but he had to get up, carefully picked up the girl wrapped in the quilt, and walked outside.
Caroline, who was trapped, only showed a small head, looking at Eric with bright eyes, and when she got out of the bedroom, she suddenly said: "By the way, Eric, I can tell you about this matter." May?"
Eric is a bit 'self-defeating': "Let's talk about it."
Caroline immediately said, "If you don't like it, then I'll keep it from Mei."
"It's okay, anyway," Eric shrugged, and said, "As long as you don't do bad things under the banner of my cousin being Eric Williams."
"Hehe, no way."
After leaving the room, he came to the door of the two women's guest rooms in a few steps. Eric held Caroline in his arms and had to lightly kick the door twice with his feet.
"Eric, it's very impolite," Caroline felt Eric's movement, subconsciously said so again, then stretched out a small white arm from under the quilt, and knocked on the door a few times .
This time, Melanie didn't know if she had fallen asleep or what, so she didn't open the door for a while.
The two waited at the door in strange postures. Caroline had no choice but to knock a few more times. Then she remembered something and said, "By the way, Eric, I just said that my aunt wants to come to Los Angeles to see you?"
Eric nodded: "Yes."
Caroline felt that Eric's tone was a bit cold, hesitated for a while, and said, "Then, Eric, will you call her mother?"
"Uh, maybe, no." Eric shook his head, looked at the girl in his arms, and said, "I don't think she would care."
Caroline also shook her head and said: "I must care, my aunt must have been paying attention to you all the time, I only understand now, why did I suddenly receive a letter from my aunt from Greece, and she also said she missed me. I'm a niece, well, my aunt obviously wants to know about you through me." Although she wrinkled her little nose slightly, the kind-hearted girl obviously didn't take this matter too seriously, after saying this, she still didn't forget to emphasize Said: "She must care."