Chapter 266
After three hours, Ethan’s car finally arrived. Tim called Grace, but she pretended not to answer the phone since Jodie would pick them up anyway.
And Jodie did go to pick them up. The moment she saw Ethan, she exclaimed excitedly, “Uncle Ethan!”
She ran over and immediately clung to his arm. “I specifically asked Grandpa to let me come with you to gain some experience. So, don’t you dare find me annoying.”
Ethan’s eyes glanced afar for a moment, but Grace was nowhere to be seen.
Standing beside him, Tim quickly took out his phone and gave Grace another call. “Ms. Lambert, Mr. Henderson has arrived. Have you made your way down?”
Grace pretended to let out a yawn. “I’m sorry. I overslept. You’ve probably settled in by now, right? I won’t be going down anymore. We’ll talk when we meet up tomorrow morning.”
Tim wanted to say something else, but she hung up before he could say anything.
On the other hand, Jodie’s expression instantly turned vicious when she heard that Grace was also here. She couldn’t understand why Ethan always brought Grace along wherever he went. She was worried that Ethan might have taken a liking to Grace, just like Alice had mentioned before.
She had visited Alice the day before yesterday. Alice had been locked up in a psychiatric hospital, and her state of mind had been quite unstable. She kept talking about how Ethan had a crush on Grace and that Grace would suffer a lot in the future because of it.
Of course, Jodie didn’t believe any of it. Someone as distinguished as Ethan wouldn’t just have a crush and do nothing about it.
However, she would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one get away.
Her eyes were filled with venom, but her face showed an innocent smile when she looked back up at Ethan.
Tim went to check into the hotel. As expected, Lucy Jones told him that there was only one room available.
Tim raised his eyebrows slightly and quickly understood what was going on. He pushed a business card toward her with a smile.
Lucy’s face went pale when she saw the card and quickly checked their group into a few rooms. When Tim was pushing Ethan into the elevator, he saw Jodie walking straight toward Lucy.
Jodie was filled with rage. She couldn’t understand why Tim was still able to check into another few rooms when she had already informed Lucy about it.
She didn’t care for Lucy’s explanation and just gave her a slap across the face. “Bitch, are you looking to get yourself killed? If I’m angry, all of you are going to be fired!”
Lucy covered her face as she started to cry quietly.
Jodie took a deep breath. She was afraid Ethan would be angry at her again if he knew about it, so she threw out a few hundred dollar bills at Lucy, clearly annoyed. “Take it to treat your face. Don’t you dares anything unnecessary in front of Uncle Ethan!”
She quickly turned around and followed Ethan upstairs.
The other receptionists hurried over to console Lucy. They were all just regular employees. It wasn’t like they hadn’t dealt with such a spoiled heiress before, so they knew that there was nothing they could do.
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Tim wheeled Ethan up to their floor. When they passed by the room Grace was in, Tim deliberately mentioned it. “Mr. Henderson, this is Ms. Lambert’s room.”
Ethan hadn’t said a word in the car this morning, so no one knew what he was thinking about. When he heard Tim’s words, he lifted his head and looked toward Grace’s room. The door was tightly closed, and no sound came from the room.
Ethan’s fingertips that were resting on the wheelchair’s armrests stiffened slightly. He looked away, wanting to leave just like that. However, the door opened at that moment.
Grace showed up at the door. Because of how she had slept, the hair on the top of her head had stuck up slightly.
Ethan stared at her for a few seconds.
Grace exchanged a glance with him and immediately felt her mood turn sour. She figured luck was not on her side today for letting her run into Ethan the second she stepped out.
Her change in expression was very clear in Ethan’s eyes. In the next second, however, she showed a professional smile.
“Mr. Henderson, I thought both of you had already checked into the hotel. I didn’t expect you two to come up this late.
“The rooms here are a bit shabby,
but you get a view of the sea. The view should be nice if you look out of the window.” She spoke half-heartedly as she walked toward the elevator. “I’m going to grab something to eat. I’m a bit hungry right now.”
Grace didn’t care about Ethan’s response. As far as she was concerned, she had said everything she wanted to say and that was the end of it.
Tim originally wanted to push Ethan to the room that he had checked in, but he saw that Ethan was still looking in Grace’s direction. So, he reminded Ethan, “Mr. Henderson, she has already walked away.”
Only then did Ethan finally look away while murmuring a soft reply in response.