"Alice..." Zach put his phone on the roof of the little pink car and looked at Alice in the car, but still didn't say anything, "Be safe."
Alice smiled, started the car, drove out of Grande, and went to school.
Maya smiled on the back porch, "I didn't expect you to be so reserved."
Without Maya's front-end preparation, Zach didn't talk to Alice about their 'girl stuff,' so that was it.
Zach pursed his lips, returned to the back porch, and looked at Maya helplessly, "But you have to promise me that if anything happens to Trisha in the future, you will tell me immediately so that Alice and Laura will not be put in danger. !”
"I, try my best~" Maya tilted her head, her tone was a bit, um, special, "But I can't always be with them, I can only try my best..."
Zach knew what Maya wanted to express, so he simply said it, "Do you want to go to school? With Alice."
"That would be the best~" Maya smiled and raised her eyebrows.
"Maya, I am not your guardian, you are just a guest of Grande. You should know what kind of work you need to do if you want to go to school."
This is what Zach usually observes about Maya:
I don’t know if you still remember that Maya has already shown her position as a black witch. She is the main attacker like Baiying. In the Black Witch's combination, she also lacks a main defense partner. Just like Ryan's malicious judgment, all the banshees see are the deaths of others, and their lack of sense of security will drive them crazy sooner or later. Maya still lacks a partner who can make her feel safe.
The same goes for Grande's sister. Although it makes Zach sad, the fact is that when Alice becomes cheerful, Grande has less and less to offer her. The most obvious manifestation is that Alice has been under the influence of Laura and feels that there are some things that she does not need to tell Zach. The girl who once had to confirm to Zach to confirm the two or three changes no longer exists...
When Maya came to Grande, she said that she came specifically to see Alice. She was curious about Alice's experience, which was completely different from Maya's. By now, she should have seen the life of an ordinary high school girl, but Maya still stayed in Grande. Zach doesn't think that his charm is too great, so the reason why Maya is still in Grande is that she has more private thoughts about Alice.
Maya tilted her head, "Well, my legal guardians are Yuehua and Baiying. But they are now settled in Newton. I don't think they go to Newton to go to school~" She looked at Zach, "I need one, well, A stable family environment, providers, and connections allowed me to go to school here, in Barton, and in Reiput~"
Zach waved his hands, "Whatever, let Yuehua Baiying prepare the procedures, Grande will be your stable environment."
"Really?" Maya raised her eyebrows, and actually jumped to Zach's side, took Zach's arm and started shaking, "Then if Yuehua Baiying doesn't agree, can you help me convince him?"
Zach looked at his hand that was shaken, frowned, and pulled it back, "Who did you learn this from?" Such things as coquettishness.
"Kepler, she always uses this method to get rid of her driver, well, occasionally her father Smith~" Maya was honest and continued to stare at Zach, "Is it useful? For you?"
"No." Zach pursed his lips. What he really cared about was not this, but, "Do you think Yuehua Baiying will agree?"
"Well - I don't know, I haven't asked them yet." Maya had a look on her face, "But I think they might refuse." After a slight pause, "You probably don't know what they were like when they were in Salem. How highly do you think Grande educates Alice..."
Zach touched his chin. Is this sarcasm? To be honest, since Alice started to change, Zach has been accepting the failure of his education. How can he have a high evaluation
"They once had a fierce dispute with the committee (Salem) about whether they should request to accept Alice for formal education as a black witch... "
Well, this is something Zach doesn't know. Our vampire raised his eyebrows, ready to listen.
"Yuehua and Baiying insist that Alice belongs to Grande. She has a complete family and is not an abandoned person by the family. Salem relies on his membership in the black witch organization to even propose this to Grande. The request is an insult to Toledo and Alice herself. That’s why I’m even more curious about Alice and you. During that time, I asked Yuehua Baiying to talk about Alice every day.”
Zach opened his mouth, with mixed emotions, but he probably understood what Maya meant, "Do you think that if you selfishly want to be a partner with Alice, you are dragging Alice into the black witch collective, which is a disservice to Grande?" Disrespectful?"
Maya nodded, with a disappointed look on her face, "I probably shouldn't be so honest with you. Now that you know I'm going to disrespect you, you probably won't agree."
Well.
Zach shook his head and thought for a moment, "Do what you want to do. I don't think this is disrespectful. Not giving you the right to choose is disrespectful. But you have to be clear, no matter what you have for Alice Thoughts, how Yuehua Baiying views the relationship between Alice and Grande, and even the entire Black Witch’s view, the final decision is made by Alice herself.”
Maya raised her eyebrows, and something flashed in her eyes. After a while, a smile appeared on her face, and she nodded, "Then can I quote you, when talking to Yuehua Baiying?"
Zach waved his hand, "Whatever."
Maya smiled and ran to the phone in the showroom. The girl didn't waste any time.
Zach went into the house and prepared to go to the office. Anthony made an appointment last night to call Zach this morning - after returning from Fisher Manor yesterday, Zach went directly to Anthony's home in the Upper North Side. After saying what needed to be said, Anthony asked Zach to go back and think about it. After dinner, I waited for his call this morning.
Passing by the restaurant, Old Hank blocked Zach's path with his unfinished breakfast, and his two untrimmed gray eyebrows squeezed into the middle. That extremely bad face stared at Zach.
"What." Zach pursed his lips.
Snapped!
The newspaper in Old Hank's hand was photographed on Zach's chest.
"Hmph!!" Old Hank turned and returned to the restaurant.
Zach held the newspaper on his chest and picked it up with his lips pursed. The page had been turned over by Old Hank, Barton Daily, People Page.
Usually, this page is filled with reports that show the beauty of society. For example, some time ago, a surgeon successfully performed a series of transplant operations. I still remember that the title was "Barton's Light-Remember Mercy Hospital xx"...
But now, just by seeing the title, Zach didn't feel that the report was showing a good thing - "Speculator of the System-Owner of Grande Funeral Home".
Of course, journalist 'Kate xx'.
Reason is telling Zach not to look, but after all, vampires have human skin, and they are not completely separated from the human heart inside. Zach looked at it while telling himself not to look. Still going upstairs.
The center of the field of vision is '... Zachary Grande looked down at the current chaos in the funeral industry with a beneficiary attitude, *Why don't you go interview my competitors*, he smiled and said to the author Show off...' This completely describes the 'fact' words. At the outer edge of the field of vision, Louise in formal attire was coming down the stairs.
"Are you going out?" Zach needed to slow down, so he closed the newspaper first and asked.
"Well." Louise was putting a notebook, Mother Teresa's diary, into her bag, "I'm going to the nursing home to see Susan. The things in this diary should make her feel better." Laughing. He smiled and took out the thermos bottle in his bag, "Send something to Benjamin."
Zach will keep wine bottles on his body, while Louise will keep a thermos on her body. There is a small difference between men and women. So Louise didn't send something to Benjamin. I'm afraid she was asked by Benjamin to send something to Mokawi.
Alas, Zach had nothing to say, "Do you need Danny to go with you?"
"Haha, no need, don't worry, Benjamin is there, I'm safe." Louise passed Zach and went directly to the basement to load the thermos.
Zach nodded, having nothing more to explain, and continued to go upstairs, while continuing to open the newspaper with a clumsy hand.
Anyone who thinks that words cannot be used as weapons is someone who has never been hurt by words and has no concept yet. They can try to offend a reporter and be attacked in a newspaper with a market share of almost 90% in this city, and feel how Zach feels now.
The stairs that usually only take a few steps now seem to have been extended infinitely, and Zack moved up bit by bit like a turtle crawling...
"You just have to speak." I don't know when, Sam got behind Zach, "I'll make this reporter pay the price."
Zach's gaze went from, '… *He didn't even hire a lawyer! He didn’t even bother to answer the judge’s questions! * Mr. Allen, the owner of the Allen Funeral Home, recalled with anger on his face when he recalled that he sued Grande because he was threatened by Grande... 'The words moved away and glanced at Sam, " At what cost?" Out of pure curiosity, he wanted to know more about his wizard's abilities.
"What do you want? Anything is fine." Sam said calmly, "I can put her soul into a pig's body and make her body your plaything..."
Louise came out of the basement and glanced at the stairs with a strange expression. Sam frowned and changed his mind, "I can pollute her spirit and make her live like a ninety-year-old old woman. I can plant a curse on her and make her grow things that shouldn't appear on her body." s things… "
Louise raised her eyebrows and walked away, walking a little quickly.
Sam said a lot more things that were difficult to repeat, but Zach stopped him, "Go have breakfast, Sam."
"As long as you open your mouth, I've done this kind of thing countless times. It's clean and no one will notice. As long as you open your mouth..."
"Breakfast. Sam." Zach didn't want to comment anymore. God knows what Sam did when he was serving Alpha.
Sam pouted, but still went to breakfast disobediently, "Should I go find Steve Walker after that?"
"Yes." Zach answered simply.
Sam's eyes twitched, "I don't need an identity, I've never had one, I live a good life, I don't need one."
"It doesn't matter whether you need him or not." Zach shook his head, "Steve is an Indian. Only if he is willing to make a deal with you does it mean that Sibella has truly forgiven you."
"I don't need Sibella's forgiveness. It's enough to return the things to her. If she is so petty and continues to encourage the Indians to exclude Grande, we don't need her. I am better than her. I..."
Zach looked at Sam expressionlessly until he shut up automatically, then turned away and continued to go upstairs.
Sam stood on the stairs, not knowing what he was thinking, and stopped talking.
Zach can continue to be attacked by words in peace...
Jingle bell bell bell bell.
The phone in the office rang, and Zach naturally thought it was Anthony who had made an appointment. He closed the newspaper and disappeared on the stairs with a clatter.
Putting the newspaper aside for now, Zach, who was sitting behind the desk, adjusted to a comfortable position and answered the phone.
"Zach." The deep old woman's voice turned out to be not Anthony's but Mrs. Quinn's. "Have you seen today's newspaper?"
Surprised, and inexplicably a little relieved, Zach glanced at the newspaper at hand and said with a relaxed smile, "I'm reading it."
"You can sue her, you know." Mrs. Quinn's voice was also quite calm, with a low tone as if she had just woken up, accompanied by the slight slurping sound of drinking coffee.
"Haha, no need, it's just a report."
"Really?" Mrs. Quinn also took the time to tell the servant something, "It's too bitter." She continued talking to the receiver, "But it will be very bad for your reputation, and it will be very bad for Grande's reputation."
"I know." Zach raised his eyebrows, "I've already been stared at by old Hank."
"Hmph. It would be nice if there were sensible people in Grande." Mrs. Quinn seemed satisfied this time, and the sound of swallowing came from the receiver, "So, what are you going to do? A little advice, don't let her disappear. , and don’t go crazy like Susan, Ethela’s subordinate. The impact will only be worse. ‘Extremely selfish and vengeful person’, huh, she really dared to write it.”
"I'm not going to do anything." Zach replied with a smile.
There was silence on the other side of the receiver for a while, and when he spoke again, "You understand that it will affect Grande's reputation, and I quote, 'the city government policies that made Grande's success' will affect yours." Friend the mayor. You should understand that during the campaign, this is very detrimental to your friends. And then, it is very detrimental to the Quinn family." Quinn has made it clear that he supports Anthony, who is a veteran. Don't forget it.
"I know." Zach nodded and looked at the answering machine that had started to spin. This was a sign that a new call was coming in. "I just wanted to talk to the mayor about recent events. I think it's better first. It’s better to hear from the mayor himself.”
Naturally, Zach thought the new call was from Anthony.
"Okay, just do whatever you think is good, hehe, you have the ability anyway." Mrs. Quinn was about to hang up, "It's okay, hang up." The answer was very tight, "Porchi was complaining yesterday. His and Mu En's things were missing and stolen, you wouldn't happen to know anything, right?"
Sam responded to Zach's order and returned Sibella's things. Hehe, Zach’s order didn’t say that he would also return Pochi’s things.
"Is it something important to the Quinn family?" Zach asked.
"Humph, no. It's dead." This time it was really dead.
Zach also turned on the answering machine directly.
It wasn't Anthony, it was James. "What did you do again!! Today's newspaper is... uh, **!!" Just these two sentences. (.)