Chapter 507 Never Offend a Woman
Frostine remained silent as she was lost in her own thoughts.
Then, Elise placed her hand on Frostine’s shoulder and said, “I know that you want to look for Clemence right now. I also do, but out of the two of us, who do you think has a higher chance of finding her?”
“You.” Frostine slouched sadly.
“The plane is landing soon. You still have 5 minutes to think of whether you want to continue waiting aimlessly or help me to find her soon.” Elise patted Frostine’s shoulder before withdrawing her hand.
“There’s no need to think. I’ll follow you,” Frostine answered with firm eyes. “I believe you will be able to find her.”
“Do you trust me that much?” Elise chuckled.
Frostine explained, “It’s because she trusts you a lot. Since you’re someone whom she trusts, I’ll trust you.”
Elise smiled without saying anything.
When the plane landed, Elise entrusted Tom to take care of Frostine and the jadeite. “I want you to take care of that and Frostine. I will bring away the blood jadeite with me, so don’t worry about it. As for the reopening of our business, we’ll just proceed with what we have discussed before with Frostine in charge of the designs. I want Shaw’s Jewelry Co. to make a name for itself at Landred City’s jewelry convention next month.”
In one month’s time, all the jewelry companies in the country would exhibit their new designs at the event, so it would be helpful to gain more clues about Clemence’s missing husband if they could locate her.
Of course, all of this depended on whether Clemence was really missing.
Whether her company—‘Alexis’—would get a slice of the action in the jewelry industry depended heavily on their performance at the convention.
After arriving at her hotel room, Elise had a bite before unlocking her safe.
The blood jadeite was peacefully resting in the safe as if it was a beating heart.
She couldn’t help but touch the contour of the jewel one more time.
This was the second blood jadeite that she found in a month.
It was rare for any jadeite to be in different colors other than green. Whenever that happened, it was often accompanied by strange changes in its material.
The only possible cause that Elise could think of in this case was radiation. That’s right. The origin of these blood jadeites must be releasing an unreported radiation, which in turn caused the change in color.
Radiation wasn’t allowed to be present for a long time in any country unless it was privately or spontaneously created, like being produced by shady organizations working in the black market.
The first thought that came to her mind was that these blood jadeites could have been the work of those missing physicists.
However, she couldn’t convince herself that the sole purpose of those physicists in creating the radiation was to produce these rare jadeites.
It all circled back to the physicists.
She unconsciously clenched the blood jadeite as her gaze gradually drifted away. This thing holds the secret of those missing scientists and the reason why Grandma and Alexander were poisoned. I need to investigate the secret.
After a while, she snapped back to reality and locked her safe again.
Just as she pressed the last number of the password, Elise suddenly thought of someone whom she had forgotten, so she murmured, “It’s time to settle it once and for all with Faye.”
…
Faye approached Elise on her own accord.
The next day, Elise received a notification regarding the ancestral recognition ceremony.
The short and straightforward notice was sent to her under Austin’s name. They knew that she had the blood jadeite and hoped that she could show it during the ceremony for the other friends and members of the family to see. In between, they didn’t forget to add some polite compliments while reminding her in the end to bring the deed that she had snatched from Faye.
Then, Elise called Alexander to rant about it.
After listening to her, he felt angry for her. “They’re quite intelligent for giving you a hollow name just to naturally take credit for all your achievements since you are now one of them. Don’t they think that this is a bit too much? I think you shouldn’t attend the ceremony. Maybe you can ask them to delay the ceremony until I’m back. After all, as your fiance, there isn’t a reason for me to not be there.”
“There’s no need for that because I can handle this myself. I must be there!” Elise revealed a smirk with something in her mind.
“It seems as though you have everything planned?” Alexander asked tentatively.
“Of course I do.” She originally had no intention to hide it from him, so she explained without any hesitation, “A while back, I found out about the illegal deals that Faye had done, and I planned to use them someday. This is a great chance for me to cement my name in the family. By then, it’ll be much easier to ease myself into the Anderson Family in the future. Doesn’t Faye want that land very much? I’ll just give it to her, but as a professional businesswoman, I’ll be wanting more from her in return.”
“This is why you should never mess with a woman,” he joked.
“I learned it all from you.” She pouted her lips. “This proves that you are a good teacher, Mr. Griffith.”
“Thanks for the compliment.” He giggled. “What do you need me to do for now?”
Elise mentioned, “I just want you to return quickly. After all, I’m going to leave the place in a huge mess, and I’m afraid that I can’t handle the situation if it escalates.”
“Hehe… Okay, I will return as soon as possible.” After that, Alexander ended the call.
Meanwhile, Melody, who was sitting beside him waiting to report her work, was left speechless. Who was the one who looked heartbroken yesterday? He has now completely recovered from one single phone call. Men are weird when they’re in love!
…
Elise flew back that day itself and Joey followed suit.
At night, the two of them went to a branded clothing store together to select their dresses for the next day’s ceremony.
However, while they entered the store, they were unlucky to have bumped into Faye and Celina, who accompanied her to the auction in Landred City.
“Oh, looks like times have changed. It seems like traitors these days have the shame to use their family’s money openly to buy luxurious items for themselves!” Celina mocked while rolling her eyes.
“Who is it with her filthy mouth?” Joey called her out straight away as she hated people like Celina the most.
“How dare you say that I have a filthy mouth!” As Celina’s chest trembled in anger, she had her arms on her waist and stomped her feet. “Where is the goddamn security?!”
Not long after, two security guards ran in and asked politely, “Miss, is there any problem?”
They were asking Celina since they could tell that she was someone who was rich and could not be offended, so they instinctively became biased toward her.
“Kick these two rude b*tches out of this place. Their presence is affecting my mood to shop!” She crossed her arms, looking arrogant.
At the same time, Faye pretended to calm her down. “Don’t be mad, Celina. After all, Yoona is my little sister.”
Of course Celina knew that Faye was putting on an act, so she pushed Faye away and shouted even louder at the security guards, “What do they pay you for? Can’t you recognize that she is the daughter of the Anderson Family? If you offend her family, there will be no place in the city for you for the rest of your lives!”
