Chapter 265: Escaping The City
"What are you hiding?" Arthur asked in a skeptical tone. One of his eyebrows was raised higher than the other and with his thumb and his long slender index finger, he was rubbing his chin that had a five o’clock shadow.
"Nothing! I’m having work tomorrow and... It is going to be a long day. Me and Celine are visiting Luxxenshire. I’m not sure when I’ll be back." Talia spoke about her plans.
"Hmm," Arthur didn’t care much about her daily schedules. She seemed like she was doing well and that’s all he cared about.
"Celine is in love with Walter..." Talia couldn’t help but pass this information to Arthur. Issue with Walter brought a fight between them two and Talia felt like telling him that.
Now he could relax as he knows that there would be nothing but friendship between Walter and her in the future, since her friend is in love with him.
"But her family doesn’t seem to like him much..." Talia added some details. He was staring at her blankly and she didn’t know how much he was listening, but he didn’t ask her to stop and so she explained it all to him.
"Hmm," Arthur gave the acknowledging nod often as if he was listening to her.
In fact, he wasn’t very attentive to Talia as he was in his own thoughts. Iris did say not to meet with King Titus, but he has already booked an appointment with him the next day. He will fight to the bitter end to finish what he had started.
Also, he found out that Belfauger group had cut a dealing with a successful real estate company based in an unassuming country that has nothing to do with Esteria or Rosandale, but then suddenly backed off just before the owner disappeared.
What got his attention was Ralph J. Runtley, the founder of the real estate company, disappeared into thin air right around the time of the attack on Talia at Rebecca’s hometown. His very successful company broke to pieces suddenly, as if some invisible forces tore it apart and took their share.
Is he connected to the attack on Talia?