Chapter 410 – Her Sudden Departure: A Tale of Love and Redemption (Lucian & Roxanne)

“Essie’s allergy was suddenly triggered last night. I took her for a checkup and was told that she had come in contact with an infectious bacterium,” Lucian said, then glanced at Aubree meaningfully. “Looks like you weren’t infected. I suppose I don’t need to bring bad news to Mr. Pearson.”

Aubree was stunned. She wondered if it was a good or bad thing that she wasn’t infected. Steeling herself, she changed the topic and asked, “Essie had an allergic reaction? How is she?”

Lucian looked at her silently.

“Why did you come back all by yourself? Is anyone taking care of Essie right now?” Aubree stubbornly put on an act despite his lack of response.

However, Lucian continued to remain silent. Unable to go on with her one-woman show, she asked sheepishly, “Where is she? I’ll go and visit her.”

Lucian pursed his lips and replied, “You don’t have to. Essie has recovered.”

An imperceptible astonishment flashed past Aubree’s eyes. How did she recover so quickly? Frieda said that kind of bacterium is very difficult to detect. It’ll take normal doctors days to find the cause and even longer than that to come up with a treatment. But he doesn’t seem to be lying. He also doesn’t have any reason to lie to me about Essie’s condition.

Aubree forced herself to calm down, then flashed a casual smile at Lucian. “I’m glad that Essie’s fine. Her body has always been quite weak since she was a child. She must have been terrified this time.”

Lucian ignored her question and scanned the room. Besides the woman in front of me, who else could have brought the bacterium here…

“It’s done, Mr. Farwell,” Catalina reported after she and the other housekeepers sanitized the entire mansion.

Lucian nodded and ordered, “Investigate who had left the manor for a long time in the past few days.”

“Will do, Mr. Farwell.”

Aubree panicked a little when she heard that Lucian planned to investigate the matter thoroughly. Her heart clenched again as she pretended to avert her gaze from Lucian calmly.

“Pack your things. I’ll send you back,” Lucian said in a deep voice.

Upon hearing that, Aubree pushed her guilt aside and snapped, “What are you saying, Lucian? My dad is still angry right now. How can I go back?”

How can I leave so easily when it took me so much effort to move into the manor?

Unfazed, Lucian looked at her emotionlessly. “Then go to a hotel. The entire manor has only been disinfected one time. I don’t know if there are more bacteria hiding around, but what I do know is that if I let you stay here despite knowing you might get infected, I wouldn’t know what to tell the elders.”

Although what he said were words of concern, he sounded apathetic. A chill ran down Aubree’s spine. She wasn’t stupid, for she knew that it was just an excuse from Lucian to chase her out.

Sadly, she didn’t have any valid reasons to insist on staying.

At that realization, she started hating Estella for recovering so fast. I should’ve let her suffer more!

“I’ll wait for you in the car.” Lucian didn’t plan to give Aubree a chance to speak. He left the mansion right after he finished his sentence.

Aubree gritted her teeth in anger as she watched him leave. I did all this because I wanted to teach that little b*tch a lesson, yet I was hoisted by my own petard and gave Lucian a valid reason to chase me away! Looks like I have no other choice but to leave.

Aubree stood at the same spot for a long while before she went upstairs unwillingly to pack her stuff.

When she saw Estella’s towel that she had swapped back last night, she clenched her jaw and stuffed it into her luggage furiously.

She had planned to get rid of the thing in the morning until Lucian denied her of the chance to do so.

As such, she could only take the risk and leave the building with the evidence.

Not wanting to leave, Aubree intentionally packed her things slowly.

Catalina showed up at the door after some time and asked politely, “Do you need my help, Ms. Pearson? Mr. Farwell has been waiting for you downstairs for a long time.”

Lucian didn’t want Aubree to delay her departure any longer, so he had sent Catalina to urge her to speed things up.

Of course, Aubree knew what Catalina’s presence meant. She closed the luggage with a scowl and stood up from the ground. “No, thanks. I’m done packing.”

Then she dragged the luggage downstairs with a long face.

When she arrived at the door, Lucian didn’t even alight from the car. It was a housekeeper who helped her place her luggage in the vehicle.

Aubree was infuriated, but she didn’t dare to show it on her face. All she could do was walk to the passenger seat in frustration.

Just as she wanted to pull the door open, she realized it was locked from the inside.

After pulling the handle twice, she still couldn’t open the door. Dumbstruck, she stared at the man inside the car.

In the past, he wouldn’t have cared about the details and definitely wouldn’t have done something so obviously directed at her.

Did that b*tch Roxanne really change him that much?

Lucian simply ignored her.

He locked the door to the passenger seat because he didn’t want to watch her putting on an act in front of him anymore.

The two reached an impasse for a long while. Seeing that the man wasn’t going to change his mind, Aubree opened the door to the back seat unwillingly and sat inside.

Lucian glanced at her through the rearview mirror and asked, “Have you thought about where you want to go?”

Aubree bit her lip and replied, “I… don’t know.”

There was silence in the car.

Instead of waiting for her to say something, Lucian broke the silence. “Then I’ll decide for you.”

He promptly started the engine and drove out of the manor.

Aubree didn’t know where Lucian was taking her, but she didn’t dare to ask. She was afraid that he would send her straight to a hotel if she did.

As she stared out the window silently, the road became more and more familiar to her. “Where are we…” She spoke hesitantly. “I’m sending you to my mom’s place.”

Sonya had always been biased toward Aubree. If she learned that he had kicked Aubree out of the house, she might annoy him with her rhetoric again.

He would rather send Aubree there directly and then explain the situation to his mother. That way, there would be nothing she could say about the matter.

Aubree’s heart sank when she heard that.

The only reason she had promised to leave the Farwell residence was that she wanted to visit Sonya at a later date. She was hoping to talk to Sonya about the matter during the visit with the intention of regaining the chance to return to the Farwell residence.

If Lucian was going to send her to Sonya’s now, then there was no way she could embellish her story in front of Sonya.

However, it was already too late when she found out where she was heading. All she could do was watch him drive into Sonya’s mansion.

“Mr. Farwell. Ms. Pearson.” The butler quickly and politely welcomed them.

Lucian nodded and gestured for the butler to grab Aubree’s luggage.

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