Chapter 140
This hotel had a lot of guests on the eve of Easter. Almost all of them were wealthy. The standards were extremely high, matching five–star service.
When Evelyn and Deborah arrived, a staff member immediately came forward to help them with their simple luggage.
Deborah had spent nearly every Easter in recent years at the hospital with Leonard. This year, it was race for the family to be together.
Her expression was joyful as she said, “The air here is great. Spending Easter with so many people around is rather refreshing ”
Evelyn, pushing Leonard’s wheelchair, smiled faintly at her words, “It’s great as long as you like it. Cranny, your and Uncle Lenny’s rooms are next to mine.” “Aren’t there several rooms in a suite? Why aren’t we staying together?” asked Leonard.
Evelyn smiled and replied vaguely, “I might have to join an online meeting with Seb later. I’d disturb you, so I booked two rooms.”
Her bag contained all sorts of targeted medications. Leonard had been ill for years and was very sensitive to those drugs, so she wanted to avoid being discovered
Easter dimmer needed to be arranged with the hotel in advance. As such, after Evelyn settled Deborah and Leonard in, she went downstairs.
After discussing the arrangements with the manager, she was about to take the elevator. However, just as she approached it, she saw Jason nearby on the phone. He saw her from the comer of his eye and immediately stared at her before nodding at her in greeting.
Evelyn, slightly surprised, walked over.
She glanced at the elevator. He had already pressed the button, so she simply stood quietly, waiting.
She stared idly at the numbers changing on the floor display
Jason said into his phone, “It’s a newly developed area. The environment is great, but there probably aren’t any rooms left tonight.”
On the other end, Mason gmaned miserably. “If I’d known, I would’ve gone too. My grandpa chewed me out the moment I got back it was brutal. You have no idea.
Jason hummed in reply.
“Why don’t I come find you now? I’ll crash in your room,” Mason suggested eagerly.
The elevator doors opened with a ding.
Evelyn stepped in first. Seeing that Jason was still on the phone, she asked politely, “Are you going up?”
Jason looked at her right away. “Yes,”
He stepped inside.
Mason suddenly tensed up on the other end of the line. He sat straight as he grasped his phone and asked, “Is that a woman? You’re voice sounds really nice!”
He sensed something fishy.
with
awoman? Who is it? Her
Jason glanced at Evelyn, who stood in front of him. Her expression was calm and distant. He pursed his lips and replied, “You heard wrong. That’s enough–there’s -no signal in the elevator. I’m hanging up.”
“There totally is!”
Ignoring Mason’s protest, Jason put away his phone and looked at Evelyn. “You’re spending Easter here? Evelyn hadn’t intended to chat with him, but since he asked her a question, she replied politely, “Lam”
Jasori instinctively asked, “You’re not going back to Lucas‘ place?”
It wasn’t odd for him to ask that question. During the previous years, Easter.
, they would usually gather to drink and play cards after dealing with their families during
Back then, Evelyn had always worried Locas migla drink too much and feel unwell. As such, she would arrive early to pick him up and even bring homemade soup She wouldn’t just bring the soup for Lucas. She would even thoughtfully prepare extra portion for the rest of them, tog She was gentle, considerate, and easy to get along with. Yet, how had they treated her back than?
After Mason drank the soup she made, he would jokingly say, “Ms. Reed, no offense, but Lucas doesn’t being you out to drink and have fun because he doesn’t wan LE to disturb you. You don’t love to use the soup as an excuse to run after him.”
Lucas was silent back then. Even though he knew those words were far too harsh for her, he hadn’t stopped them and silently agreed with Mason
They all hated Evelyn, dislilding the fact that she climbed into Lucas bed and nutted his manage. They were biased from the start, but now.
