"James." Zach stood inside Benjamin's warehouse door and looked at the three people sitting on the back porch, a strange middle-aged man, Benjamin, and finally old Hank who looked at the man with strange eyes. The vampire shook his head and continued, "James, do you know how stupid your behavior is?"
James didn't speak and stared in the same direction. The man avoided Old Hank's eyes and kept looking at Benjamin and the warehouse with a strange expression. He reluctantly wanted to smile and say something, but he didn't want to say anything. Stopping again.
"If he is really a foreigner, you have already gone to see Crowley." Zach smiled and waved to the back porch, and the words in his mouth were indeed cold and gloomy.
James looked away, the disgust on his face flashed away, and he retreated into the warehouse, arguing in a dark and angry voice, "What can I do! Give him a shot!"
Zach also stepped back slightly so that the people on the back porch could no longer see this side. He turned to face James. He looked at James who was obviously in a bad mood and suddenly felt funny, "Ha. Okay, James Mus, thank you for bringing him here, you don’t have to worry about the rest.”
James stared at Zach with a look of disgust on his face, "Do you think I want to take care of it!" After saying that, the detective snorted loudly and walked out of the warehouse, glanced towards the back porch, tugged the corner of his mouth, and sat back In the car, drove away.
Zach raised his arms to block the sun, put on a smile, trotted onto the back porch, glanced at Benjamin who shrugged, and his eyes fell on the face of the man who immediately showed nervousness and anticipation, "Derek ,Right."
Derek was obviously a little nervous. He rubbed his legs with his outstretched palms. He nodded and said in a high pitched voice, "Yes!"
"Zachary." Zach dropped his last name very thoughtfully. This meeting was awkward enough. There was no need to make the atmosphere worse. Zach stretched out his hand, as if he was already very familiar with it, to help the other person sitting, "Everyone calls me Zach. How about we go into the room and talk?"
"Zach!" Derek misunderstood and held Zach's hand. "Everyone calls me Derek..."
Zach was stunned, and the smile on his face became much more natural. He used his hand to pull the other person up, "Come in." He didn't forget to look at Benjamin, "You come together."
Benjamin pouted, slapped his thigh, stood up impatiently, and the three of them opened the back porch door. Inward.
"Hank?" Zach asked in confusion as he saw old Hank silently crowding beside him without saying a word.
Old Hank's wrinkled face tightened, which was his serious face, and he suddenly yelled, "What's her name!"
"Hank?" Zach frowned, looking at this weird old man who didn't know what he was thinking.
"Let me ask you! What's her name!" Old Hank ignored Zach and stared at Derek, "Your mother!"
Derek frowned. Also looking at the old man who had been staring at him from the beginning, "Lidya."
Old Hank's expression softened instantly. Every wrinkle on his face relaxed and he turned away.
Zach pursed his lips, he got the message. Ignoring Old Hank, he patted Derek who was looking abnormal and stepped through the door.
Entering the office, Zach hesitated for a moment. Instead of sitting behind the desk, he sat on the workbench next to the bookcase with Benjamin and Derek.
No one seemed to want to say the first thing, and the three of them looked at each other.
Alice held the tea tray, silently placed it in front of the three of them, and ran out quickly with her head lowered.
There are new things. The three of them all started to focus on the cups in front of them, and the silence continued.
I don’t know how much time passed.
"In this way..." Someone finally spoke, it was Derek. He was holding the teacup in both hands, lowering his head, with an awkward smile in his tone, "This is definitely not the way I wanted to meet, haha." He picked up the tea, Take a sip.
If the vampire follows up, if not now, it will be embarrassing forever!
"Haha, I can imagine, haha." Zach was also holding a tea cup, "Detective Lance, ugh..." Zach took a long breath, "Sometimes, he will be very..." Zach was stuck on his words.
"Too nervous," Benjamin added.
James Lance has become the key to opening the dialogue between the three 'Grands'!
"Yes, yes." Derek's cheeks twitched and he smiled bitterly, but he finally felt a little more relaxed.
It's now. Zach stretched out his hand and put his hand on Derek's arm, patting him comfortingly, "But I really hope you can forgive him. He doesn't have any bad intentions."
Derek's expression became strange, no bad intentions? Half an hour ago, his face was still pressed against James' car door, and he had no idea what was going on and was being questioned by the young police detective!
"I... uh." Derek frowned. He wanted to ask, but he didn't know whether he should ask.
Regardless of whether he asked or not, Zach had to explain, for himself, for James, and for the real Grande in front of him. It is precisely because of the last 'real Grande' that the vampire knows that he cannot use the Eye of Charm!
"Well, um." Zach said in a hesitant tone, "We Grand..." Zach looked at Derek apologetically and changed his words, "We have a special relationship with Detective Lance. .”
Zach looked at Benjamin, his eyes signaling this guy who didn't like acting very much to at least cooperate.
Benjamin pouted and pushed the cup in his hand, "We are his informants."
"Benjamin!" Zach used a reproachful expression, then looked at the surprised Derek, and tilted his head helplessly, "Yes." Zach lowered his voice and said slowly, "This is your first time. People who come to Barton may not know that recently, there was a... "
"Prisoner." Benjamin seemed to dislike his brother's ink marks. "He escaped from prison. We happened to help catch him..."
"Benjamin!" Zach was very satisfied with Benjamin's performance, but still used a reproachful tone.
"What!" Benjamin stared at his 'brother' impatiently, "I was going to tell him anyway!"
"No, no need!" Derek looked at the two brothers nervously. Of course, he had no idea that these two guys were just deliberately feeding him information and deflecting the truth. He only knew these two brothers, one was careful and rigorous, the other was rough and direct, but they both seemed to be good people.
"You don't have to tell me this!" Derek stopped the two of them from telling such confidential things to themselves, who were still strangers. However, he could feel that these two people really did not regard him as an outsider. This feeling is very strange and very, well, comfortable.
"I don't blame Detective Lance!" Derek looked at the two of them. The misunderstanding had been solved. He wanted to put an end to this topic quickly. "He checked my ID and confirmed what I said. He brought me here! I’m so grateful to him!”
The 'cautious' brother, Zach, smiled, and the atmosphere was no longer so awkward. He said in a relaxed tone to an acquaintance, "That's good, haha. Then, how did you get to the east? You went to the wrong place too. Too far!"
Derek felt the relaxed atmosphere, but he felt embarrassed again, "Maybe I am also deceiving myself. I don't dare to come here directly, so I asked clearly, Glen... There is still another branch of the funeral home. department."
Zach raised his eyebrows, it turned out to be the mill on the east side. However, Derek's statement was a bit special and he was deceiving himself. I'm afraid he already had Grande's business card and was timid and hesitant for a moment. He didn't know how to get there, so he took a small detour to relax and learn more about the current Grande situation. Rand, give yourself time to prepare.
Derek frowned and clenched the tea cup in his hand. "In the end, I only dared to walk around outside until I made up my mind to come over." He smiled self-deprecatingly, "I got lost."
The three people laughed and laughed, but there was no sound.
"Then." Zach suddenly raised his voice, "You must be very tired!" Zach stood up, "Let us get you a room and take a rest."
"I… "
"No, no!" Zach smiled and started to signal to Benjamin, "You can't refuse, come on!" Zach took Derek's arm, "I'll show you around!"
Unable to resist Derek's refusal, he was already pulled up by Zach, "This is the office."
Zach took Derek and patted the chair in front of his desk, and said the next words very smoothly, "Our father made it himself." Zach smiled and pointed to the other furniture in the office, "Most of the furniture It's all our father's doing, it's what he left behind, oh yeah, and old Hank."
Derek's heartbeat was a little fast, and the moment Zach said it, he was a little stunned. He never thought that his identity would be accepted by the owner here so quickly. But immediately as Zach pointed at various pieces of furniture, his mind was no longer entangled with these. Following Zach's voice, he looked at the furniture made by his father.
As for why Zach accepted Derek's identity so quickly, in fact, the vampire had no choice. The detective James had already conducted an investigation. The young detective "responsibly" checked all Derek's documents. What else could he do? reject
"Oh, Old Hank." Zach said in a relaxed tone and waved his hand, "We will call him Daddy Hank in front of outsiders." Zach blinked and pulled Derek through the reception room and towards the exhibition hall. , lowered his voice, "After all, he is the oldest one here! His hobby is not furniture, but these!"
Zach touched his hand on the coffin displayed in the exhibition hall and looked at Derek with a smile, "Although he is a little weird, he is a good man, you will find out."
Derek looked at the coffins around him, and something was clearly in his eyes.
Zach smiled, "Every day, Old Hank will wipe the coffin here in the morning and in the carpentry shed behind the backyard in the afternoon. It's quite boring. I think he would like to have a company."
Derek looked at Zach and nodded, "Thank you."
Zach smiled and waved, and walked back, "Follow me, there are still many places, let's go outside first... Uh, no, let's go to the restaurant. I don't like the sun." Zach touched his face , blinked, and said seriously, "This face can't stand the summer sun."
Derek smiled. The other party was sincerely introducing himself. He was an easy person to get along with. Derek felt lucky that he liked the brothers very much and followed Zach. (..)