Chapter 27: Amah rock or Not?

Elara looked at Arabella.

“Miss- I mean,Big sister. Why do you suddenly ask?”

Arabella smiled behind her cup but still said nothing more in regards to that, Instead she stretched out her phone to Elara.

“Can I have your WeChat, Little sister?”

Elara's eyes widened.

She looked between the phone and the beautiful smile on Arabella's face. She couldn't believe that this A-list actress was asking for her WeChat.

This is the most sought after actress we're talking about here.

‘And she really takes you as her little sister.’ She heard that tiny voice in her head again.

‘Hmph,I guess you're now a little sister to everyone.’ Another taunting voice spoke.

Elara almost spat out blood at the painful reminder.

She quickly scanned Arabella's phone and got her contact information.

The rest of her stay in Arabella's home was warmer than she expected.

The actress really took her as a younger sister.

By the time her driver arrived, Arabella offered to send her down but Elara politely refused because she wouldn't want to draw attention to Arabella.

While in the car, Elara's mind drifted to the entertainment agency left behind by her parents.

It wasn't really a big deal because it was one of the investments her parents had done on a whim.

So no one really paid it much attention. But now Arabella mentioned it,she supposed she could look into it.

Her eyes moved down to her phone that lay on her lap.

‘As for Cassian, I'd stop being overly anxious. That's why I was destroyed in the first life anyways.’

With that thought in mind,she rested on her chair and closed her eyes, thinking of her next plan.

—---

Across the globe,Cassian alighted from a private jet after a rigorous twenty hours of flying around for meetings in two different countries.

He just stepped down at the airport for the third. Tugging his tie loose,he felt thoroughly exhausted as he turned on his personal phone for the first time in all these hours.

He saw notifications dropping into his phone, making that unfamiliar but not unwelcome ping sound.

A smile bloomed on his once dark face.

When he clicked her message open,the latest message made his heart drop.

‘I think I'll just let you be. Sorry for the disturbance.’

The jet’s engines were still whining in the background, a high-pitched scream that matched the sudden roar in Cassian’s ears. He stared at the words 'let you be' until they blurred. To anyone else, it was a polite withdrawal. To him, it was a door slamming shut in his face.

“Oh shit!” Cassian cursed out loud for the first time.

Vincent and the other people with him felt their steps freeze.

‘What happened?’

They all looked at Vincent for an answer,but he was clueless as well.

Suddenly, Cassian turned around.

“Vincent pack everything up, we're going back to Valemont now!”

Cassian commanded, taking long strides towards the private jet.

Vincent was confused but he reacted quickly.

“Wait..wait sir,we can't go back now.” He took the risk and stood in front of Cassian, blocking his way.

“And why is that?” The impatient look on Cassian's face was enough to send everyone sprawling but Vincent had to hold his ground.

“Sir pleaseee,” he drawled. “I don't know what caused you to make such a decision. But I beg you, the client finally agreed to meet you after all your planning and everything.”

Vincent looked like he was about to have a mental breakdown.

“Please sir, whatever it is could wait. If it can't I'm willing to help you anyhow. You can't just let all your sleepless nights go down the drain.”

Cassian watched Vincent quietly without uttering a word.

He so wanted to shove Vincent aside and run back to explain things to Elara. But seeing the dark circles around Vincent's eyes,he knew he couldn't just let all his efforts go down.

So he relented.

“Fine! But let's make it fast.”

Vincent let out a shaky breath he didn't know he was holding. Then he ran off to make preparations.

Cassian looked in the direction of Valemont.

‘Please,wait for me.’

He knew this wasn't what he wanted to explain over the phone.

Author's note: Amah Rock is a famous landmark in Hong Kong, named after an ancient legend of a devoted wife who climbed a hill every day waiting for her husband to return from sea — not knowing he had already drowned. She waited so long that she and her baby were turned to stone.