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Romina looked away and turned to Hayden beside him: “Grandpa, I don’t need anyone to take care of me. I can just sleep in the guest room.”
With that, she staggered to her feet, intending to head upstairs.
“Jericho, hurry and follow her.”
As soon as Hayden finished speaking, his gaze fell on Jericho.
Jericho hesitated for a moment, but in the end couldn’t refuse Hayden and got up to follow.
Behind them, a long, narrow gaze was following the direction in which they left.
“Joaquin, did you bring a driver tonight?”
The man withdrew his gaze and looked at his father beside him.
Joaquin let out a low, hoarse laugh: “You keep your grandson and granddaughter-in-law here, but you’re kicking me out?”
“That’s not what I mean, you know that.” Hayden suddenly leaned in, lowering his voice: “Your room is right next to Jericho’s. The couple hasn’t seen each other for so long, it’s inevitable that…”
He left the rest unsaid.
Joaquin, always clever, could hardly fail to understand what his father meant.
The man curled his lips, responding with a half-smile: “This fire of yours might not catch.”
Hayden didn’t quite understand what he meant, and when he looked up, Joaquin was already striding toward the sec- ond floor.
When Joaquin reached the second floor, he saw Jericho locked out of the room.
Jericho was knocking on the door: “Romina, open the door right now.”
As Joaquin passed by, Jericho glanced back at him.
Seeing the man behind him, he was momentarily stunned: “Joaquin? Are you staying at the Bowman’s mansion tonight too?”
“Yes.”
Joaquin gave him an indifferent look, then strode toward the study.
Behind him, Jericho’s knocking continued.
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“Romina, open the door.”
As Jericho passed by the nearby guest rooms, he saw that all the doors were locked.
The man couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh.
Hayden really went to great lengths to bring the two of them together!
Unfortunately…
The man is indifferent, and the woman is unwilling.
How could this fire ever be lit?
At this moment, inside the room.
Romina, drunk, leaned against the balcony, while urgent knocking sounded at her ear.
But she acted as if she hadn’t heard, continuing to admire the night outside.
During dinner, she had tied up her hair with a rubber band, and now her neck felt a bit chilly.
She intended to take her hair down, but perhaps pulled too hard, and the rubber band in her hand had already snapped onto the neighboring balcony.
Romina’s brows furrowed instantly.
Her gaze passed over the transparent glass railing and saw the rubber band on the next balcony.
She hesitated for a moment, but in the end, lifted her foot and climbed up without hesitation…
The glass railing was not very high; just a single pane of glass separated the balconies of the two rooms.
She climbed over it with ease.
As she bent down to pick up the rubber band on the floor, her head felt increasingly heavy, and a wave of drowsiness washed over her.
The room next door had always been empty.
Up until now, Romina still had no idea whose room it actually was.
Her head throbbed with pain.
She couldn’t care about anything else anymore, staggering toward the large bed in the room and collapsing onto it.
At that moment, a phone rang outside the door.
And then came the man’s deep voice: “Nadine, were you looking for me?”
She had no idea what the woman on the other end had said to him.
After Jericho gently comforted her for a few moments, he said softly, “Wait for me there, I’ll be right over.”
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Romina heard the man hurriedly leave.
Soon, the sound of an engine came from downstairs.
She no longer cared about him, closed her eyes, and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
Half an hour later.
As Joaquin was about to return to his room, he ran into Jericho’s mother, Lenora, in the corridor.
“Joaquin, you came back today as well?”
As Lenora stepped onto the stairs, she looked at the man’s back with a beaming smile.
“Mm.”
Joaquin greeted her politely, then immediately opened the door to his room.
The lighting inside was dim, but he immediately noticed the figure lying on the bed.
“Bang-”
In an instant, he closed the door.
At that moment, Lenora was just about to pass behind him.
His sudden action left Lenora somewhat baffled.
She frowned and stared at him: “What’s wrong? Joaquin…”
Joaquin glanced back at her, quickly changing the subject: “Lenora, why weren’t you home tonight?”
Lenora was momentarily taken aback.
Joaquin held great authority in the Bowman family, second only to Hayden. Even Lenora was always polite to him whenever they met, and it was rare for him to take the initiative to ask about her whereabouts.
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