8. What's Wrong With Jack?

"Choose me? What do you mean choose me?" Elena asked as she chased after Nina who had waltzed away with many paper bags in both hands.

"Why are you and your brother so mysterious? What's so hard about answering?" She grumbled when Nina continued on to her car.

Nina stared at her for a moment, then shook out her hair, which Elena realized was now brown and wavy.

"You're a businesswoman. You should understand why not all questions should be answered immediately."

She could only open her mouth when Nina entered the car and started the engine. The loud horn made Elena jump.

"Hurry up! My brother will kill me if you don't arrive at his house."

Without much protest, Elena quickly got into the passenger side next to Nina. The girl immediately drove the car at high speed, making Elena cling to the seat behind her again.

"Why do you seem to know so much about me and my scandal? You even know about Lucas," Elena asked curiously.

"I'm Jack's sister. So you shouldn't be surprised."

"What? But Jack is a bodyguard, not a detective. Does a bodyguard have to know so much about his employer?"

Nina laughed until her eyes narrowed. "There's a lot you don't know about my brother. You just have to be pretty and he'll keep looking after you."

There was implicit meaning in her words, but Elena chose not to bother. It was enough that she was messed up with what happened to her life in a short time, she didn't want to pry into her bodyguard's personal life.

Wait, can Jack still be called her bodyguard now? She would even live with that man.

"We've arrived. Let's go inside. My brother is waiting inside."

Nina's cheerful voice made Elena jump. She looked at the building in front of her. She blinked her eyes several times, unsure of what she was seeing.

"Nina, are you sure we're not at the wrong house?"

Nina had already gotten out of the car and was busy opening the trunk before taking out their groceries.

Elena scanned the house once more. A three-story house, no, more like a mansion! Wait, something is wrong here. Mansion? This building was even bigger than the Pierce family's mansion.

Her mouth involuntarily gaped when she saw a man dressed as a butler rush over to Nina and act as if she were a princess.

Elena looked back at the building in front of her. Unmistakably, it was the mansion.

What bodyguard would have a mansion that big? At this point, Elena suddenly felt inferior. She felt she didn't deserve to be Jack's employer. Instead, Jack seemed to be accommodating Elena, who had suddenly become homeless.

Now she was curious, who exactly was Jack? There was no way he was just a bodyguard. Lucas' house was nothing compared to Jack's mansion.

"Elena, come on in! Don't make my brother angry." Nina shouted from the front door of the mansion.

Elena's view of Nina now changed. She thought Jack was from an ordinary family, and so was Nina. Now she felt ashamed of herself for acting like she was the richest.

Oh, she even forgot when Nina took out the black card at the beauty salon. No wonder Nina looked so used to the salon.

"He is a rigid and annoying man. Really dislikes delays and spoiled women. It's strange that he would even want to be the bodyguard of a conglomerate's daughter."

Sometimes, Nina would ramble on about things that made Elena wonder and think hard. The man who was her bodyguard sounded more like a boss than a personal bodyguard.

"Nice house," Elena said as she entered the living room.

She should have felt normal because a luxurious mansion like this was nothing new to her eyes. But as an unemployed person, she felt like a pauper now.

Moreover, the owner of this mansion was her subordinate. Someone who should only live in a small apartment. How much did a bodyguard make anyway? She didn't even know who recruited Jack.

She had only gotten a bodyguard a year ago. Even then, she had refused her father's decision. But her father was silent. She was forced to accept the bodyguard.

"Jack's tastes are modest. Our father offered him a bigger house than this, but he refused," Nina said casually as she flopped down on the plush sofa.

Elena almost choked on her own saliva. Nina said a mansion this big is modest? The curiosity was getting the better of her. Their family must be extremely wealthy beyond the Pierce family.

She was even more convinced that Jack was no ordinary bodyguard. Maybe he was just a bodyguard on a whim?

She suddenly felt hot. The hoodie she wore had made her sweat since she left the beauty salon in the mall earlier. Probably the effect of the massage given by the violet-haired woman.

She took off the hoodie and put it on the sofa.

"What took you so long? Where have you been taking Ele..."

Bruk!

Elena jumped when she heard the sound of something falling hard. She turned her head to where the sound came from and her forehead furrowed when she saw the man she had been looking for.

In front of her right now, the man who still looked too handsome and sexy despite wearing only home clothes was staring at her with his body frozen. His eyes widened.

"Jack, are you okay? I didn't see you at the hospital earlier," Elena said with a smile on her lips.

Suddenly, Jack tightened his jaw and clenched his hands tightly. He turned around and left them to walk up the stairs to the second floor.

Elena who didn't expect to get such a reaction could only stand where she was. Her eyes blinked, digesting what was happening.

Moments later, Jack came down the stairs in jeans and a jacket. Passing by Elena in a hurry without even looking at her. The door to the mansion slammed loudly after he walked out.

Elena could only stare open-mouthed at Jack's sudden departure. What had happened? Why?

"Oh my God, this is all my fault."