Chapter 497: Being Kept (3)
Chapter 497: Chapter 497: Being Kept (3)
The villa’s location was impeccable, as was its price. While it wasn’t the most expensive villa in Veridia, it was certainly in the top three.
As Ronan Tate drove, he kept sneaking glances at how Vera Xavier and Nathaniel Nathan interacted. The way they were with each other now was completely different from when he had first met them.
He couldn’t quite put his finger on what was different. After they got in the car, Vera Xavier seemed a bit tired and leaned back to sleep, while Nathaniel Nathan was on his cell phone the entire time.
The two hadn’t exchanged a single word the whole time, yet Ronan Tate somehow felt their relationship had progressed by leaps and bounds.
After Nathaniel Nathan had returned to his unit for his last mission, he had sent Ronan Tate to Veridia to oversee the renovation of the house. At the time, Ronan Tate didn’t understand why Nathaniel wanted him to renovate a house, but he finally understood after seeing Vera Xavier.
’So the Young Master had planned to bring Vera Xavier to Veridia even back then. Could it be that he already knew she would get into Veridia University?’
Ronan Tate hadn’t been in Crestfall for the past few months, so he didn’t know what Vera Xavier had been up to there. Even so, he still felt that she wasn’t good enough for his Young Master.
As his mind wandered while he drove, he saw the usually cold and unapproachable Nathaniel Nathan actually take out a thin blanket and carefully drape it over the seemingly asleep Vera Xavier.
Ronan Tate’s eyes widened in utter disbelief. ’Since when does the Young Master know how to take care of someone?’
’And you, Vera Xavier! You’re clearly not asleep, yet you don’t even sit up to thank the Young Master. How can you just accept his care so naturally!’
This lapse in concentration nearly made him kiss the bumper of the car ahead.
Nathaniel Nathan didn’t speak, but reached out and tapped lightly on the back of the driver’s seat.
Ronan Tate knew at once that his Young Master was displeased. He quickly reined in his jumbled thoughts and focused on driving.
Vera Xavier had actually noticed Ronan Tate studying her for a while. The rearview mirror allowed him to see her, but it also allowed her to see the expression on his face. Naturally, she also saw his horrified look when Nathaniel Nathan covered her with the blanket.
She simply smiled to herself. In her last life, Ronan Tate had been quite hostile towards her, the root cause being that he felt she wasn’t good enough for Nathaniel Nathan.
But he had never done anything to harm her. On the contrary, because of Nathaniel Nathan’s orders, he had taken rather good care of her whenever Nathaniel was away on missions, despite his disapproval.
After a little over half an hour, the car arrived at Nathaniel Nathan’s villa. Once the car came to a stop, Vera Xavier sat up, rubbing her eyes.
’In my previous life, Nathaniel Nathan hadn’t bought a villa here. It was probably because I didn’t get into Veridia University back then. So, he must have bought this villa for me.’
She silently calculated the value of this location twenty years in the future and concluded that Nathaniel Nathan’s foresight was simply incredible. The potential for appreciation was frighteningly high.
Ronan Tate took out a key and opened the villa’s main door, and Vera Xavier saw the rather sweet decorating style inside.
The corner of her mouth twitched. In truth, after everything she’d experienced in her previous life, she no longer liked this kind of style. But at the end of the day, she was currently just a girl who had recently turned eighteen.
This style was quite a good match for a girl her age; it was just that the soul inside this shell was far older.