Chapter 700

Chapter 700

The news was so sudden that when Rachel heard it, she froze.

“Why so sudden?”

From the other side of the line, Vulture pressed his lips together and briefly summarized the call he’d

had with Lone Wolf earlier. “There’s some unrest at the border. We need to go over and control the

situation urgently.”

When Vulture finished, he added, “By the way, Lone Wolf asked me to ask you something. Do you

have family in Aureliana?”

“Why do you ask?” Rachel frowned slightly, a hint of contemplation flashing in her eyes.

“Maybe Lone Wolf got the wrong information.” Since there was an emergent situation, Vulture didn’t

explain much but repeatedly reminded Rachel, “The Jones family’s situation is complicated. You have

to be careful.”

“Got it.”

After hanging up the phone, Rachel frowned slightly, her eyes filled with contemplation.

Why did they say that she had family in Aureliana?

For some reason, what Mr. Davies had said about her looking like a friend of his resounded again in

Rachel’s mind.

Could this so-called family be the friend that Mr. Davies had mentioned?

Just as she was feeling baffled, David approached Rachel, bringing with him a crisp woody fragrance.

David reached out his finger and tucked Rachel’s hair behind her ear. “What are you thinking about?”

Rachel looked up and suddenly met David’s deep black eyes.

Rachel pursed her lips. “Nothing. Vulture called just now and said that something urgent came up and

he had to leave early.”

“So urgently?” David asked.

Rachel responded affirmatively as she looked at David, her lips moving slightly.

“You want to send him off?” David watched as Rachel lowered her eyes and figured out what she was

thinking. David placed his palm on the top of her head and caressed it gently and lovingly. “Go.”

“Go where?” Rachel looked up at him.

Perhaps it was because of the tacit understanding that they had developed after interacting with each

other for so long but the moment their eyes met, Rachel immediately understood what David was

saying.

“Then you…”

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Before Rachel could finish her sentence, the butler’s voice came from behind them. “Mr. David!”

Rachel turned and saw the butler who was hurrying towards them. The butler nodded slightly at Rachel

and said, “Mr. David, Mr. Jones, the heads of the other branches, and the Elders have been waiting in

the meeting hall for a long time.”

The banquet prepared by Old Mr. Jones was coined a family banquet, but it was actually a family

meeting before the cabinet meeting.

As the head of the family, David naturally could not leave.

Moreover, now that the Elders were here, it was all the more reason David couldn’t leave.

The Elders had already picked up on the fact that David had dealt with the nine branches in a swift and

decisive manner a few days ago. If David left at this juncture, the Elders would probably be dissatisfied

and take the opportunity to get a hold of his weaknesses.

Rachel tugged at the corner of David’s shirt. “Quickly go. Don’t worry about me. Chris will accompany

me.”

Rachel wasn’t officially married to David yet so strictly speaking, she wasn’t considered part of the

Jones family.

As such, it didn’t matter if Rachel participated in this so-called family banquet.

Just as Vulture had said, as the only female around David, Rachel was like a walking target.

In that case, regardless of whether Rachel wanted to see those people or not, they would always find a

way and reason to see her.

David pursed his thin lips.

The butler sized up the expression on David’s face and spoke at just the right moment, “Mr. David,

since Miss Grey has to leave, why don’t I arrange for her to take Mr. Jones’ car? No one will dare to

crash into Mr. Jones’ cars.”

“No need,” Rachel said. “A car is a car.”

Rachel figured that based on the Jones family’s status in’ Aureliana, no one would carelessly crash into

a car leaving the Jones family’s estate.

David waved his hand to dismiss the butler, taking Rachel’s hand and walking towards the old

residence’s exit.

When he reached the door, David was still holding Rachel’s hand tightly. David turned to look at Yann

and Billy behind him. “You guys escort her personally.”

In unison, they both cried, “Yes, sir!”

After Rachel had said goodbye to David, she leaned forward and

climbed into the car.

Rachel lowered the window and waved at David before the car was started and they left.

“Is this the legendary loyal husband who watches his wife until he turns to stone?” Yann glanced at

David, who was still standing by the door, through the rearview mirror.

When Rachel heard this, she turned around and looked behind her.

David was still standing at the exit where they’d said goodbye and even though they were far away

from each other now, Rachel could clearly sense his worried expression.

Rachel pursed her lips helplessly and sighed softly.

Ever since Rachel came to Aureliana, she could feel that David was in a highly tense state, as if

something bad would happen to her at any time.

As the car slowly moved out of sight, David turned around with a cold expression and walked into the

old residence, heading straight for the meeting hall.

On the other side, Vulture and Blackhawk quickly packed their things and prepared to leave.

However, since they had received Rachel’s call, they deliberately waited for a while.

A blade of grass stuck out from the corner of Blackhawk’s mouth as he looked out at the gradually

sinking sun in the distance. Blackhawk couldn’t help but mutter, “To be honest, before I saw Twelve, it

didn’t bother me. After seeing her, I suddenly don’t want to leave.”

Blackhawk couldn’t help but miss those days when they had gone through tough times together.

“Since we know where she is, she won’t be able to run away from

us.” Vulture glanced at the time on his phone. “With Lone Wolf’s navigation system, I’ll be able to find

her even if she runs to the ends of the earth.”

As he spoke, a message from Lone Wolf popped up.

Vulture clicked on the picture.

The picture was a blurry side profile and although it was blurry, one could tell from the facial outline that

it was Rachel.

No!

To be precise, it was someone who looked a lot like Rachel.

“Who is this woman?” Vulture muttered thoughtfully.

“Let me see.” Blackhawk spat out the grass in his mouth and took the phone to have a look. “Isn’t this

Twelve?”

The moment the words were out of his mouth, Blackhawk added, “Looking closely, it doesn’t seem like

it either. Who is this woman?”

“How am I supposed to know?” Vulture rolled his eyes at Blackhawk, figuring they would know more

once Rachel arrived.

Vulture looked down at the time. It was now the time that he and Rachel had agreed upon, but there

was no sign of her. Vulture frowned slightly. “She should be back by now.”

“Let’s wait a little longer. Women have so many things to do before they leave,” Blackhawk said.

However, after 20 minutes, Rachel was still nowhere to be seen.

Vulture had a bad feeling about this.

Twelve had always delivered what she promised. She would never promise anything she could not do.

Since Rachel had said that she would send Vulture and Blackhawk off, she would definitely be here.

Could it be that she was in trouble?

With that in mind, Vulture took out his phone and dialed Rachel’s number.

A mechanical voice came from the other end of the line. “I’m sorry, the number you’ve dialed is

temporarily unavailable…”