The two of them froze in action imdiately.
"Miss Jacobs?"
Florence Sinclair knocked on the door again from outside.
Juliana snapped back to reality and pinched Adrian Langley on the chest, "Saying over and over that she hopes you marry Isabelle Sinclair, I don’t believe she’s not plotting for herself. You, with your tea-drinking nature, are really a bother!"
Adrian Langley, "..."
"Hurry up and hide already."
After speaking, Juliana got off him, dimd the indoor lights, grabbed a towel, and walked to the door.
When she opened the door, she held the towel in her hand, but she was quite surprised.
Because Jared Langley was also there.
"So late, what do you want?"
She looked like she was about to take a shower.
Jared Langley stood on tiptoe to peek inside, "Juliana, she said she heard a man speaking in your room, so... she asked to co and check."
"Do you believe everything she says?"
Florence Sinclair didn’t answer, but Jared Langley was quite anxious.
Especially seeing her standing at the door blocking the way, he was even more inclined to believe Florence’s words.
"Move aside!"
Jared Langley pushed her away.
Juliana bumped into the door and didn’t fall down.
But Jared couldn’t care less, he walked into the room, turned on all the lights, but didn’t see a fourth person in the room.
So, he rushed to the bathroom.
Juliana’s heart tightened for a mont, because Adrian Langley had just hidden in the bathroom.
However, there was no one inside.
Her heart hanging in suspense finally relaxed.
Jared wasn’t willing to give up, he even checked the bathroom windowsill, and only ca back when he didn’t find footprints.
Juliana pushed open the wardrobe door, "Check here too, and under the bed, the dressing room..."
She paused, then laughed, "Look, I forgot, this is your house, you can check wherever you like, take Miss Sinclair with you to check, I’ll wait outside for the result."
With that, she turned to walk outside.
"Juliana!" Jared grabbed her.
"Don’t touch !"
Juliana shook off his hand.
This shout left Jared stunned.
Florence quickly smoothed things over, "Miss Jacobs, don’t be angry, I just went to find my brother-in-law, but no one answered at his room, so I brought the young master to help look for him, and who knew, when we passed by your room, we heard a man’s voice, so we..."
"Is this it?"
Juliana played sothing on her phone.
A short drama was playing.
So the man’s voice was coming from the phone?
"Juliana..."
Jared wanted to explain, but Juliana interrupted him, "I don’t want to hear anything you say now. Florence whispered sothing to you, and you rushed over as her pawn? Jared, as a ’fiancé,’ if one day the Sinclairs asked for my bleeding heart to save a life, you might not blink an eye before cutting open my chest to give it to them."
Jared’s face turned several shades of green and white.
Florence imdiately explained for him, "Miss Jacobs, don’t..."
Juliana interrupted her with a smile, "Second Miss Sinclair, you’re the ’kindest’ person I’ve ever t. Clearly, you wanted to find soone in my room, yet you act harmless, pretending ’it’s for my own good.’ Considering others so much, it must be tiring for you."
Florence was choked by her words.
"Juliana, I’ll explain to you tomorrow, get so sleep tonight."
Jared knew that her anger at the mont wasn’t sothing that could be soothed with ordinary persuasion, and further entanglent might push the relationship to a more strained state.
He urged Florence to leave the room with him.
The two just reached the door when they saw Adrian Langley and Quinn Shepherd coming up the stairs while discussing sothing.
Both of them were dumbfounded.
At this mont, Juliana slamd the door with a "bang," and they both simultaneously got a shock.
Florence turned back and t Adrian Langley’s cold stare, her heart plunged, and a chill quickly spread through her body.
"Tomorrow morning, Quinn will take you to the airport, get so rest."
After Adrian Langley finished speaking, he didn’t look at them again and continued into his room with Quinn Shepherd.
Florence struggled to maintain her carefully constructed façade of composure, yet defeat and resentnt intertwined in her eyes like a web.
No matter who Juliana really is, she absolutely cannot be the true daughter of the Sinclair Family!
...
In the middle of the night, Juliana woke up from the heat.
She rolled over and realized she was clinging to a man’s furnace-like chest.
"Why did you still co? Aren’t you afraid your sister will look for you?" she mumbled.
Adrian Langley, eyes closed, replied, "Leave here, whatever you want to check, I’ll help you."
Juliana nudged his chin, "The things hidden here are all not wanting you to know, what can you find out?"
Adrian Langley remained silent.
Juliana yawned and fell asleep again in his arms.
The next morning, Adrian Langley was, as usual, nowhere to be seen.
Juliana got up late, planning to grab sothing to eat from the kitchen before heading to the office.
As she passed the dining room, Jared intended to say a few words to her, but she chose to ignore him.
anwhile, Leona Sheridan was praising Florence Sinclair for being sensible and capable, and upon seeing Juliana like that, she imdiately remarked, "Florence, it’s thanks to your parents for raising you well, for being considerate as a guest to accompany for breakfast. So people don’t respect or their fiancé, acting so arrogant, truly lacking any upbringing!"
Juliana heard all of it but couldn’t be bothered to respond.
She went straight to grab a piece of bread from the kitchen, intending to leave, but Leona chased after her persistently.
"Your husband is waiting for you to have breakfast, and you’re just going to leave?"
Juliana paused and turned around.
She didn’t look at Jared but directly responded to Leona’s words, "I’m not married yet, where did I get a husband? Mrs. Langley, has your mind gone off?"
Leona was at a loss for words.
With so business to attend with Aetherfla, Juliana didn’t waste ti arguing and hurriedly left.
Leona sighed with a furrowed brow.
Florence sincerely comforted her, "Miss Jacobs is a career-oriented woman with precious ti, being busy is normal, it’s just... seeing soone this busy is rare."
Sure enough, Leona perked up her ears to look at her.
Florence smiled softly, "Oh, I’m letting my thoughts run wild. Miss Jacobs has a career and connections, a mark of success, we can’t just speculate if she’s using business as an excuse to et so shady people, right?"
At this point, Quinn Shepherd appeared at the dining room entrance.
"Miss Sinclair, sir instructed to take you to the airport, have you finished eating?"
Florence’s eyes darkened, but she smiled and got up, "Yes, I’m done, please wait for a mont, I’ll go get my luggage."
After Florence left, Leona fell into deep thought.
...
Two hours later, while Juliana was out handling so matters, her phone rang.
It was Caleb Shaw calling.
He sounded anxious over the call, "The lab suddenly said they were going to examine my sister today, so I rushed to the hospital..."
Juliana tightened her grip on the phone slightly.
It seed pushing Florence to leave was a smart move.
But then, Caleb ntioned a problem he was facing.
"... but now Leona is bringing people to the company, saying they won’t leave until they see you."
Juliana furrowed her brows.
Thinking for a mont, she felt another opportunity had presented itself.
She quickly sent a ssage to Adrian Langley.
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