The Reunion After Seven Years

Chapter 266 Familiar Place

Jay was a little embarrassed. "No, I'm not. Come on, Mommy, don't starve my little sister. Let's get up." He urged Nicole.

After freshening herself up, Nicole had lunch with Jay and Harley. Then she returned to her room and changed her clothes. Before she could tell Harley that they were leaving, she was dragged out by Jay.

"Wait. We have to tell Harley that we are going out." Nicole felt something wrong but she couldn't tell what it was.

"No, Mommy. Uncle Harley is busy. Come on, Mommy, we are going to be late." Jay couldn't wait to see Callie. The gift box that he was holding in his arms had been made by Harley just a moment before.

Nicole shook her head helplessly, but she was pulled out of the hotel by Jay. Then she saw a Rolls Royce parked at the door, and a man in a black suit emerged from the car.

The man looked at Nicole and asked politely, "Are you Ms. Ning?"

Nicole faced the man in front of her, and she nodded. "I am. Who are you?" It was strange to be greeted like this, since she didn't know anyone in D Island.

"Hello, Ms. Ning. I'm here to pick you and your son up," the man explained.

While Nicole hesitated whether she should enter the car, Jay‘s phone rang. Seeing that it was Callie calling, he answered eagerly.

"Callie." Jay's face revealed his great excitement. After Callie gave him an explanation, he hung up the phone with a smile.

"Mommy, it's Callie who sent someone to pick us up." Jay looked at Nicole beside him.

Nicole's doubts about the man wholly dissipated, and she nodded politely to him. "Thank you." Then she led Jay into the car.

The car drove off to a villa district, which was even wider than the range of the Gu family’s old house. For a moment, Nicole couldn't help but begin to doubt Callie's identity.

But next to her, Jay didn't seem to be suspicious at all. And since Callie's driver was there, it would have been improper for Nicole to ask more.

At last, the car stopped in front of a wide estate. Standing at the door, Nicole had a mysterious familiar feeling, but she couldn't figure it out.

"Ms. Ning, this way please." Following the driver, Nicole walked into the estate. Seeing a fountain in the center of the manor's yard, she couldn't help but stop walking.

"Mommy, what are you looking at?" Jay finally noticed that something was wrong with Nicole. He looked up at his mother, and saw that she was absorbed in thought.

Nicole shook her head silently. A white swan-shaped statue was in the middle of the fountain. It was very beautiful and elegant, and it was obvious that it had been built many years ago.

Nicole instinctively put her hand on the edge of the fountain. As she did, a spray came out of the middle of the fountain, and she looked at her hand again.

Somehow, she knew that there was an automatic switch on the fountain.

"Ms. Ning, you seem to admire this fountain very much?" Ben Xue walked out of the villa and wore a faint smile on his face as he looked at Nicole, who was in a state of distraction.

Hearing someone call her from behind, Nicole turned around and came to her senses. "I'm sorry." Looking at the man in front of her, an image suddenly appeared in Nicole‘s mind.

In the image, a little girl was running around and playing with a little boy on the grass.

"It's okay. This fountain was my sister's favorite. I'm not surprised that you would like it." There was a meaningful look in Ben's expression.

"Uncle, here is the gift I prepared for Callie." In his little suit, Jay looked very dignified and upright. He bowed slightly to Ben in a polite manner.

Lowering his head to Jay, Ben bent down to pick him up. "Thank you, Jay. Callie will like it."

Jay blushed.

As she looked at Ben and Jay, Nicole's intuition gave her a strange foreboding. She took out her phone and tried to call Kerr. However, her phone couldn't pick up any signal.

This shocked Nicole. She looked around suspiciously, but she had no choice other than to follow Jay and Ben into the villa.

Ben put Jay on the ground. Callie was there to greet Nicole, and then she and Jay went into the living room.

The interior design of the villa gave Nicole a strange familiar feeling once gain. The deja vu was really unexplainable.

"You seem to be very interested in my decoration. I have kept everything as it was when I was a boy. It has only been renovated earlier this year."

Ben poured out a glass of milk and offered it to Nicole.

"Thank you. It's very beautiful." Nicole held the milk in her hand politely, but didn't drink it. Her eyes instinctively glanced at Jay.

It was only at that moment that she realized how rash she had been. She had brought herself and her child to a strange place just because she wanted to make Jay happy.

She regretted her imprudence.

"It seems that you don’t believe me?" Ben said with a smile. He held a glass of wine in his hand and took a sip of the wine.

Nicole smiled. "Mr. Xue, you must be kidding. I've brought Jay here, haven't I? I just think I should tell my husband about it. Otherwise, he will be anxious if he doesn't know where we are.

But there's something wrong with my phone. I can't make a call. Mr. Xue, can you help me solve this problem?" Nicole asked tentatively.

If she was merely overthinking, then Ben would solve the problem for her. On the contrary, if Ben only gave her excuses, then Nicole would really have to think of a way to escape from there.

"Of course," Ben answered gently, with perfect equanimity. Then he raised his hand and told the maid to bring a phone to her.

Nicole looked at the phone warily, then dialed Kerr's number. No one answered the call. She dialed three times in a row, but still no one answered.

Anger emerged on her face. She couldn't imagine how Kerr could be so busy that he didn't answer her calls. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

"What? Is there any problem?" Ben didn't seem surprised at her reaction at all.

Putting down the phone, Nicole said, "My husband may still be busy. I'll call him later."