Chapter 223

With Nana’s help, Eliana managed to join the chat group of Eli’s fans and soon developed a good

rapport with them.

By talking to them, she found out a lot of information about Eli, including about his dog and the ring.

According to Eli’s fans, Eli had gotten his dog three months ago, which coincided perfectly with the time

that Bowling went missing.

Eliana also went through Eli’s recent photos on his fan page. In many of those photos, Eli was wearing

a necklace, and the pendant on that necklace looked exactly like Preston’s ruby ring.

So not only did Eli’s dog look like Bowling, but the ring he wore around on his necklace looked like

Preston’s. It was too much of a coincidence.

Eliana was sure of it now.

Bowling and Preston’s ring were both with Eli!

However, without evidence and a valid reason, Eliana knew that she couldn’t just demand those things

back from Eli.

While she was contemplating how to proceed, she received an offer from Eli’s studio.

The coordinator informed Eliana that they were inviting her to work as Eli’s stylist after Nicole had

recommended her to them.

Eliana’s face lit up when she heard that. It seemed that luck was on her side.

All she needed was a chance to get close to Eli. She would definitely get the ring back and return it to

Preston.

With that thought in mind, Eliana accepted the offer without hesitation. In no time, the studio emailed

her the job duties as well as the contract.

Eliana skimmed through the contract easily, but when she looked at the job duties, she froze in shock.

It turned out that Eli’s client was the Moran Group! He was shooting an advertisement for jewelry at the

Moran Group’s building, so Eliana would have to meet him there.

“Oh come on! Why can’t I ever get rid of Maurice?” Eliana groaned, tilting her head back with her palms

on her face.

She regretted accepting the offer from Eli’s studio so readily without asking any questions.

If Eliana had known that the job entailed going back to the Moran Group, she would have turned it

down immediately! Now, she didn’t know when or where she would run into Maurice. Just thinking of

having to deal with him again gave her a headache.

Noticing that her best friend was in low spirits, Nana came over and asked, “What’s wrong, Eliana?”

“I just got a job offer.” Eliana paused, looking glum.

“Congratulations! But why do you look so down? Isn’t this good news?”

“It turns out that for this job, I’ll have to go back to the Moran Group’s building. I’m afraid I’ll end up

running into Maurice again. Nana, what do you think I should do?”

“You silly girl, I thought it was something serious!” Nana clucked her tongue and shrugged. “Anyway, I

think you should go. Why not? You need a job to make money and pay Maurice back, right? Otherwise,

you won’t be able to get rid of him forever.”

Enlightenment flashed in Eliana’s eyes when she heard these words.

Nana was right! ‘The sooner I pay off my debt to Maurice, the sooner I’ll be free from him,’ she thought.

With that thought, she made up her mind.

“Thank you, Nana. You always know just the right things to say. You’re so smart! I’ll accept the job.”

“Good. This sounds more like the Eliana I know.”

The two women smiled warmly at each other.

Neither of them noticed the two kids at their bedroom door, who were eavesdropping on their

conversation.

“Adrian, do you think Mommy will find a daddy for us? That Maurice who Nana mentioned, will he be

our new daddy?” Aileen asked Adrian in a low voice, with her big eyes widening in a mixture of

eagerness and curiosity.

Adrian frowned in thought. “I don’t know… Have you ever seen this Maurice before?”

Aileen pouted and shook her head. But then an idea suddenly occurred to her, and she clapped her

hands.

“I know! How about we look him up online?”

Adrian’s eyes lit up. “That’s a good idea. We can use Nana’s cellphone. She is such a scatter-brain.

She probably would have left her phone in the living room.”

The two kids quietly tiptoed into the living room.

“Woof, woof, woof…” The dog, Foodie, was curled up in the living room when it saw its young masters,

and immediately jumped up to greet them.

“Shh! Be quiet, Foodie. Adrian and I are doing something top secret. Don’t make any noise!” Aileen

hissed.

Foodie stopped barking, and quietly followed the children.

Sure enough, after looking around the living room for a few seconds, Aileen found Nana’s phone

tucked away in the corner of the sofa.

“Adrian, I found it!” Aileen shouted excitedly in a low voice.

“Great!” Adrian came over at once.

Aileen easily unlocked the phone, opened Google and typed in “Maurice Moran”. Within the first few

results was a Wikipedia page titled by that name.

While carefully looking through the few photos on the page, Aileen widened her eyes in surprise.

“Adrian, don’t you think that our new daddy looks a lot like Silas’s uncle?”