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“Whoa!” Julia suddenly shrieked, pointing out of the car window. “Claire, look! There are so many cars parked here today!”
Claire had noticed that as well and nodded. “Yes. It seems like people have
moved in today.”
Julia hissed as she narrowed her eyes and stroked her chin in faux contemplation. “I don’t really get it. No one else was living here two days ago, so why are there so many people here now? It’s like a pop– up market. All of a sudden, they’re gone. Then, they’re back again just as suddenly.”
Realization seemed to have struck her as she looked up to stare at Claire in shock. “They seem to treat this place like a hotel, coming and going as they please.”
Claire was tempted to ignore Julia as she continued to chatter on.
When the elevator arrived at their floor, they found the door to the unit next to theirs open. They could hear someone moving about some furniture. Julia curiously peeked into the apartment and was stunned by the luxurious decor found inside.
“Oh my god! This must have cost a lot! The entire place is renovated to a traditional aesthetic.”
Julia grabbed Claire’s sleeve. “Look at the painting on the wall. Is that real? How expensive is it?”
Claire was somewhat familiar with classical paintings, but she would need to
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Claire was somewhat familiar with classical paintings, but she would need to be closer to the painting to authenticate it. She shook her head and dragged Julia back to their apartment. “I don’t know either. Let’s go home. Stop
staring.”
She had just taken a few steps away when she stopped and turned around. Standing at the doorway, she carefully examined the apartment inside with a frown. “Why does this place look so familiar? It looks like Mr. Vanderbilt’s
place.”
Just then, a tall man walked out from behind the divider. The man had a pair of white gloves on as he held a white vase. Upon seeing Claire, he smiled and gently said, “What a coincidence.”
Victor, who was standing behind the divider, nearly choked on his saliva wher
he heard Sean say that.
Sean really was shameless to have the audacity to say that. Was he not afraid Claire would slap him for that?
Claire did not expose him for his lie and simply nodded with a smile. “What a
coincidence!”
Victor was rendered speechless.
He was wowed by how kind Claire was.
“Whoa! Mr. Vanderbilt!”
Julia was wondering why Claire had suddenly turned around. When she saw Sean standing in the apartment, she excitedly skipped over. With her hand on Claire s shoulders, she did her best to peek into the unit while saying, “You’re the
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Sean’s gloved hands gently rubbed the white vase in his hands as he elegantly smiled. “Yes. We’re neighbors now.“”
Julia clicked her tongue. “Did you buy out the entire complex just to be Claire’s neighbor after you found out she bought an apartment here, Great–Grandpa?”
“Julia.”
Claire gently tugged on Julia’s shirt. It did not matter if Sean had actually bought out the entire complex because of her. Being too direct with that question would only cause embarrassment.
Julia did not find the situation awkward at all and continued to ask, “Well, Great–Grandpa?”
Sean calmly looked back up at her. “I bought the complex for the company
staff.”
“Whoa!” Julia excitedly pushed Claire away and rushed over to Sean’s side. “Great–Grandpa, is your company still hiring? What about me? If I work for you, will you give me an apartment?”
Julia’s mischievous side was showing itself again, but who was she even teasing right now?
Claire pursed her lips in a sigh and dragged Julia by the arm back to their unit. “Let’s go home, Julia.”
Julia refused to go along and started pleading just like a child who was begging for candy from their parents. “Claire, I want my own unit too!”
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“The bonus I paid you is enough for you to buy a house, okay?”
Claire opened the door and shoved Julia into the unit with a kick. “You, ungrateful brat! Are you going to betray me just for an apartment?”
With her hands over her own butt, Julia dashed into the apartment and fell onto the couch, laughing hard.
Claire glared at her before closing the door.
“Claire, Great–Grandpa has come all the way here for you, right? Back in the
car, a certain someone said that if a man chased her down so relentlessly, she would marry him,” Julia said.
Claire rolled her eyes and tossed her keys on the coffee table before heading
into the bathroom.
When Julia heard the sound of water rushing inside the bathroom, she quickly hopped off the couch and sneakily slipped out of the apartment.
“Great–Grandpa, I’m back,” a voice called from outside the door.
Sean instantly knew who it was.
He put down the white vase and walked over to the apartment door. “Do you need something?”
Julia smirked and innocently blinked at him. “You like Claire, don’t you?”
Was there a need for him to answer that?
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Sean calmly took off his gloves. Even with his head hung low, he was so tall
that Julia could see the emotions warring in his eyes.
“Hahaha! I know it’s true, even if you don’t say it. You do like Claire.”
Sean looked up once more with bright, clear eyes as he gracefully asked, “What ideas do you have for me?”
Julia knew that Claire was back in Silverton because she wanted to take her
mother’s company back. Hence, Claire had never once thought about love.
She licked her lips and lowered her voice to a whisper. “Great–Grandpa, Claire‘ s love life has been very treacherous. She once met a scumbag who… Well,
he…”
She found it hard to explain the situation. No matter how she phrased it, nothing sounded right. It was so hard coming up with a lie.
Sean’s eyes narrowed at her. His stern glare frightened Julia into silence.
“G–Great–Grandpa, d–don’t look at me like that. It scares me …”
She shrank back to the door like a frightened rabbit.
Sean shoved his right hand into a pocket and looked down his nose at her. “Just what do you want to say?”
Under his oppressive gaze, Julia silently gulped. “I … I was going to say that even a raging fire fears a persistent man. Claire said it herself!”
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Under his oppressive gaze, Julia silently gulped. “I … I was going to say that even a raging fire fears a persistent man. Claire said it herself!”
Julia ran off as soon as she was done speaking, and Sean turned back to the Copyright Nôv/el/Dra/ma.Org.
unit. After shooting a look at Victor, who was eavesdropping from behind the divider, he silently headed further into the apartment.
Victor could sense a murderous rage brewing inside Sean’s eyes.
Was Sean going to demand he investigate this scumbag so that Sean could destroy the scumbag and his family?
As Sean’s confidant and someone who knew him well, Victor did not need Sea to order him to do that before he ran off to take care of the investigation.
Sean’s apartment was unlike Claire’s apartment. His unit comprised of four bedrooms, two living rooms, and two bathrooms. One of the rooms was being used as his bedroom while the second room was converted into a guest room. A for the remaining two rooms, they were being used as a study room and a gyr
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