When Zach returned to the office, the phone had been hung up, but Louise was still wrapped in a blanket, hugging her curled legs and sitting boredly in Zach's special chair.
"I told him to wait a moment." Louise saw Zach coming in and pointed to the phone, "But he seems to be in a bad mood. I'll see you again in the afternoon." There was a trace of curiosity in Louise's eyes and she asked: " who is he?"
"Mayor Barton." Zach replied with a smile, walked to his seat, and motioned for Louise to get up.
Louise blinked, holding the blanket that had slipped slightly on her chest with one hand, and gave up her seat. But the other smooth arm was placed on the back of the chair, stroking it back and forth, as if it had no intention of leaving.
While admiring the scenery, Zach sat back in his seat, picked up the wine that Louise had poured for him in advance, and looked sideways at the woman hanging around: "You should go put on some clothes."
Louise moved her body and sat on the desk. Her smooth legs were exposed from under the blanket and folded beside Zach. "Why bother? Anyway, you will take them off again if I tell you." Slender His fingers were drawing circles on the table beside him, as if he was thinking about something.
After the alien crisis was resolved, the charm pupil applied to Louise had long since lost its effect, but this 'single woman' did not leave, but completely moved in here. No one in the Grand House objected to Louise's move in, except for Old Hank's occasional complaint that there was an extra beautiful woman here.
Zach licked the bright red from his lips and chuckled: "This is easy to solve, just don't ask questions I don't want to answer." The corners of the vampire's mouth curled up, "Unless you really like the method I used this morning, Stop your words."
Louise's cheeks turned red and she jumped off the desk, "Then why did you ask Benjamin to tell Kim, no, tell James, that you wanted to create offspring."
Louise's tone was not friendly, and her slender eyebrows were slightly wrinkled. Now we know what the reason for the weird atmosphere between the two is.
Zach put away his smile, obviously this topic was very close to a question he didn't want to answer. Zach said calmly: "That was Benjamin's own behavior. I have no right to interfere with him. James will tell you that it is just to protect you. You should thank him."
"Why should I thank him?" Louise didn't like Zach's plainness. Her emotions became excited, and the blanket on her chest was rising and falling, in danger of slipping off at any time. But obviously, now is not the time to care about such details, "If James hadn't told me, then I wouldn't know, and I wouldn't think about that! He messed with my thinking! Now, all I think about every day is , 'What is a descendant of a vampire', 'How to become a descendant of a vampire'!"
Louise's casually disheveled head swayed from side to side as she asked excitedly: "And 'your descendants'? I don't even know what the relationship between us is now! Is it normal for us to be like this? Will I What danger is there?!" She glared at our vampire: "And you, you refuse to do anything with me!"
Zach looked at the excited Louise, a beautiful and intelligent woman who now seemed vulnerable. Zach realized that his silence on this issue had disturbed this woman's heart.
Although she was blaming Zach for his 'silence', for some reason, she pushed this anger onto James who 'told her about it'. I'm afraid only women can have such complicated emotions.
Zach had a slight complaint about Benjamin's talkativeness.
Zach looked away from Louise, thought for a while, and asked softly: "Are you worried about your safety?"
Louise watched Zach's eyes slowly widen, seeming a little surprised by Zach's attention. But at the same time, she seemed to regret expressing her fear.
Zach said before Louise could speak again, "If you feel unsafe, you should trust your instincts and get out of here."
Louise hugged her shoulders and opened and closed her lips several times, but no sound came out. After a moment, Louise, biting her lower lip, turned around and rushed out of the office. The sound of her bare feet stepping on the steps gradually faded away. Zach sat silently on his seat, listening to the sounds coming from upstairs, getting dressed, opening the wardrobe, taking off clothes, stuffing the suitcase, and dragging the suitcase downstairs...
"Hmph!" Old Hank's voice said: "Beautiful woman, you dislike the old man, are you leaving?"
Benjamin pushed open the side door of the office, still leaning sideways, watching Louise on the stairs dragging her suitcase and running down the stairs. She seemed not to want to see Zach again, ignoring Benjamin pushing them away, and almost said with a He hit it, pushed open the back door on the stairwell side, stepped out of the porch, and rushed out!
On the second floor of the warehouse, Alice, who was holding Benjamin's photo and telling Laura a story, saw this and chased him out anxiously, but Louise had already left the backyard of the Grand House and walked onto the road. The banshee wandered anxiously by the roadside, but did not dare to chase her out.
"What's wrong with Louise?" Benjamin closed the door in confusion and asked, holding an old newspaper in his hand.
Zach shook his head and did not answer, but looked at the newspaper in Benjamin's hand: "Did you find it?"
Benjamin headed: "We found it, are we going to investigate? It doesn't seem to be easy." Benjamin handed the newspaper to Zach.
Zach took it, glanced at the poor man's last name on the report, and shook his head. He folded the report and put it in a drawer. "If it can be proven that it did not enter Barton because of the rumors of the skinchanger, leave it alone for the time being."
Benjamin sat down opposite Zach, twiddling his fingers idly.
Zach frowned, what happened today? Why didn't everyone seem to be willing to leave their offices!
"You should go change some clothes." Zach pointed at Benjamin's torn shirt sleeves and reminded him.
Benjamin tilted his head, "Lola."
Zach's head seemed to be clear. It seemed that the two brothers of the Grand House had encountered similar problems...
"Well." Benjamin trailed off, trying to find a topic, "How was your conversation with Anthony?"
Zach shook his head: "He will go to the mill in the afternoon. Then, do you want to go with him?"
Benjamin thought for a while and shook his head: "I'll forget it. There are still some stones at the Ford Funeral Home. I have to make a few more trips."
Ford had previously promised to give useless stones to the Grand House. Although it was a gift, they did not lose anything because these stones were once purchased with city government money. After privatization, these stones are no longer available. Useful things have no value other than taking up space. No one would want to buy the stones for making tombstones for home use.
But the people at Grand House were too thrifty and were not even willing to pay for a fleet of trucks to transport the goods, so they relied entirely on Benjamin's old truck for towing. Ford was already a little dissatisfied with this competitor always coming in and out of his territory, and urged Benjamin to go faster.
"Okay." Zach nodded, "I have nothing to do now." Zach was a little upset and didn't want to stay here: "I'll go over first, and you can take Madison and I to the mill."
"Okay." Benjamin stood up: "I'm going to change clothes first." Benjamin thought he had found an excuse to avoid Laura.
Today is Sunday. Laura, who doesn’t have to go to school, has a reason to come here. After spending today, after five days of campus life, Laura may not remember this admiration. Benjamin takes his own charm too seriously.
While waiting for Benjamin to change clothes, let me introduce the 'mill'.
The mill was where I, Madison, was going to work.
Grand House successfully obtained the project to cooperate with the Southern District Branch of the Patton Police Department. But as everyone expected, the South Precinct here in Barton South, which is considered suburban and rural, is very. In previous cases here, if there were victims who needed forensic identification, they were sent directly to the North District General Bureau. After all, Barton is still a young city and is considered a suburban place. It is understandable that public facilities are not perfect, and 40 A minute's drive isn't too far.
The city government took the opportunity of this funeral privatization to upgrade the South Branch. It acquired a piece of land not far from the South Branch to build standard appraisal facilities.
Not far from the soon-to-be-established appraisal facility, Grand House acquired an abandoned mill that became Grand House's semicolon and, while working with the South Precinct, built a cremation facility. For the sake of the psychological stability of himself and his "brothers and sisters", a vampire will never allow himself to live in a place where such a terrifying thing as an "incinerator" exists. So, this is a great opportunity.
However, Zach himself did not take out a penny. He just transferred the check for the contract with the police department and sent it back to the city hall. And I was so lucky to go from the bottom of society to a wealthy person. The middle class people in their own industry...
Well, this is what makes Anthony unhappy. After all, at this moment, Anthony doesn't know that I am just a harmless sidekick.