Chapter 218 - Good Night Kiss

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Neil spent most of his time cooped up in the office after they returned from Z Town.

While Mike was recuperating in L City, Neil made time to accompany Edith to the hospital and look after her grandfather. Now that Mike has returned to Z Town, Neil turned his focus on his piling workloads.

After Jamie had returned, Neil had assigned her to sneak into the Accounting Department to find out evidence that someone was messing up with the accounts. With Henry's help, he found a few people that he could trust and send them over to various departments as spies.

Now that Neil had decided to work together with The Rainmaker's blogger, Charles Tang, Neil had some clues at which directors and shareholders were involved in embezzling the company's money.

All they have to do now was to find the evidence quickly before his enemy figure out what he was going to do and destroy whatever hard work he had made.

As Neil busy with his work and would not go home for dinner, Edith took the opportunity to pester Lily and had their meals together.

As soon as Edith and Hazel entered the house, Alex greeted Edith at the door and pulled Hazel to his playroom so that he can show off a new model that he had build with his father a few days ago.

Edith watched the two kids retreating and heaved a sigh. Until this time, Edith found it hard to believe that Alex had influenced Hazel to like building models so much. 

After receiving a model on Alex's birthday, Hazel's interest in building the model peaked. A few days ago, Edith overheard Hazel's conversation with her grandparents and heard her mentioning wanting one of those models for her upcoming birthday.

Edith walked into the dining area and watched as Lily prepared some dishes.

As Lily was currently pregnant, the food she made this time was light and non-spicy. Looking at the friend's glowing face, Edith was relieved that her friend's pregnancy reaction was not that bad as the time she was pregnant with Alex.

"How is your grandpa?" Lily asked as they sat down at the dining table. 

Edith heaved a long sigh when she recalled her grandfather. "He's doing good. I asked Aaron's mother to keep her eyes on him and she told me that my grandfather has been running around with her Grandpa George these days."

"Going fishing again?"

"Fortunately no." Edith watched as Alex took some chunks of carrot from Hazel's bowl and ate them. A chuckle escaped her, knowing that although Hazel was not picky with her food, she did not like carrots that much.

"Grandpa said that he was bored staying at home and Grandpa George took him to play mahjong with a few friends," Edith said. She lowered her head and frowned. She did not know why, but Edith always had this feeling as if her grandfather was lying to her. 

She did not know what her grandfather was up to, but she had a feeling that whatever her grandfather was doing was not playing mahjong with his friends.

Edith was worried about what her grandfather was up to, but could not do anything to keep her eyes on him.

If Aaron was in Z Town, she could at least ask him to look over her grandfather. However, Alex has been staying in L City for months to assists the team is investigating a serial murder.

It has been a while and the police haven't caught the person who was responsible for Amanda and the few girls' murders. The public was still worried, but these days people did not talk about the murder as much as they used to, and instead, most people would be talking about the shift in politics in the city.

After chatting with Lily for a while, Edith finally left her place and headed back to their apartment.

When both of them arrived, Neil has still not returned.

Edith accompanied Hazel until she was asleep before she went back to the bedroom. As she walked out of the bathroom, Neil entered the bedroom with a tired look on his face.

"You're home." Edith walked over and helped him with his coat. "It's late. Go and take your shower and rest early."

Neil replied with a soft hum, pecked at her lips, and entered the bathroom with his pajama.

Edith watched his retreating back and heaved a sigh, knowing that he was busy with his work this recently. After hanging his coat, Edith slipped into the bed. Though she was planning to wait for Neil, Edith soon fell asleep.

After a while, the side of the bed sunk and Edith felt a warm hand draped around her waist before she was pulled into a warm embrace. Feeling slightly ticklish on her neck area, Edith opened her eyes and frowned at the man in front of her.

Edith put a hand on his chest and gave him a gentle push. "What are you doing?" 

The man blinked his eyes innocently and answered, "Giving you a good night kiss and hugging you to sleep."

Edith stared at Neil speechlessly. The two of them have been together for a while and he was aware that she would easily get ticklish around her neck area. What good night kiss?

Seeing her dazed expression, Neil leaned to kiss her forehead and speak, "You don't have classes tomorrow, right?"

"Hmm." Edith buried her face to his chest and inhaled his scent.

Her French class officially ended last week, and Edith was still contemplating whether she wanted to join the next class into another level.

"Let's go out somewhere with Hazel."

Edith pulled back and stared at Neil. "Aren't you busy with work?"

"I have to attend a banquet tomorrow evening. It will be held at a resort. I'm thinking about taking both you and Hazel with me," Neil said. "I haven't been spending a lot of time with you and Hazel recently. What am I going to do if my girlfriend gets upset if I neglected her for too long?"

"Do I look like such a person?"

A deep chuckle escaped him as his hand subconsciously moved to caress her body. "Come with me, alright? We'll spend a night there and return the next morning."

Her heart grew soft as she looked at his tired face.. At the thought that a short break from work would be good for him, Edith quickly agreed. 

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