Chapter 22

Eleanor stole a glance at Cedric sitting in the passenger seat.

Seeing him focused on looking out the window, the embarrassment in the her heart gradually eased.

She held a tissue, bowing her head and silently cleaning the rainwater off her body.

Cedric looked in the rear–view mirror at the thin figure in the back seat.

In such cold weather, she didn’t even have a coat on, and was out in the rain trying to hail a cab. Cedric was quite curious.

“Ms. Shultz, why didn’t Mr. Caporal give you a ride home?”

Hearing the name Mr. Caporal, Eleanor furrowed her brows in confusion. It took her a moment to remember that she was currently Josef’s “girlfriend“.

She clenched the tissue in her hand and lied, “We had a fight, and he just left me by the road.”

Cedric nodded, “I see.”

Seeing her shivering from the cold, he raised the car’s heating without asking further.

The sudden increase in temperature inside the car gradually warmed Eleanor’s icy, stiff body.

She glanced at Cedric gratefully, then carefully explained, “I actually wanted to take a taxi, but my phone was out of power, and the nearby shops were closed. I had no place to wait out of the rain, so I stood by the road. Sorry to trouble you.”

and uneasy Eleanor in the rear–view

finally relaxed and leaned her head against the car window, closing her eyes wearily.

warm air blowing, she soon

the car stopped at the entrance of her residential

around, Cedric said, “Ms. Shultz, we’re

no response from the back seat, Cedric turned

Eleanor leaning against the window, sound

this woman too naive? Could she just fall

she think he was a

motioned to his

quickly got up, went to the back seat,

Shultz, you’re home.”

with difficulty, opened her eyes to see the darkness,

condition, but luckily, her mind was still clear, and

car.

straightened up and thanked him again, then pushed the door open

“Ms. Shultz.”

an umbrella from the back seat, “It’s raining

the umbrella, knew it was worth tens of hundreds, and was afraid she wouldn’t have a chance to return it to him. So, she gently refused, “Thank you, but it’s just a few steps away. I’ll run over.”

eyes. He simply tossed her the umbrella, “you

look, she had to

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