Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Chapter 5 Similar Problem

Translator: Doggotranslation

When Zach returned to the office, the phone had already been hung up, but Louise was still wrapped in a blanket, hugging her knees, sitting in the chair that belonged to Zach in a daze.

“I told him to wait a moment.” Louise saw Zach coming in and pointed to the phone. “But he seems to be in a bad mood. He said he will meet you in the afternoon.” Louise’s eyes were curious and asked, “Who is he?”

“Mayor,” Zach replied with a smile, walked to his chair, and signaled Louise to get up.

Louis blinked, held the blanket that had slipped off her chest with one hand, and stood aside. But her other clean hand rested on the back of the chair, stroking back and forth. It seemed that she had no intention to leave.

Zach sat back to his seat while admiring the beautiful scenery. He picked up the ‘wine’ that Louise had already poured for him in advance, and looked sideways at the woman who didn’t want to leave: “You should go get dressed.”

Louise moved her body and sat on the desk, her smooth legs protruding from under the blanket, crossing each other beside Zach, “Why bother? As soon as I speak, you will take them off again anyway.” Her slender fingers circled on the table next to him as if she was thinking about something.

After the crisis of the shapeshifter was resolved, the effect of hypnotizing eyes applied to Louise already disappeared, but this “single woman” did not leave, but moved in completely. The people of Grande Funeral Home, except for the old Hank who occasionally complained that there was a beautiful woman here, no one objected to Louise’s stay.

Zach licked the bright red liquid on his lips and smiled lightly: “This is easy to solve, don’t ask me the question I don’t like to answer.” The corner of the vampire’s mouth curled up, “Unless, of course, you like the way I tried to stop you from talking this morning.”

Louis’s cheeks flushed red and she jumped off the desk, “Then why did you ask Benjamin to tell Jim, I mean James that you want to create a descendant?”

Louise’s tone was not friendly, her slender eyebrows were slightly wrinkled, and now we know what was the strange atmosphere between the two.

Zach stopped smiling, obviously, this topic was very close to ‘the question that he didn’t like to answer’. Zach said lightly: “That was Benjamin’s own behavior. I have no right to interfere with what he does. James wanted to tell you because he wanted to protect you, you should thank him.”

“Why should I thank him?” Louise didn’t like Zach’s indifference. She became slightly excited, and the blanket was in danger of slipping off from her body under the quick undulation of her chest. But obviously, now is not the time to care about such details, “If James did not tell me, then I would not know about it, and I would not think about those things! He disturbed my thinking! Now, what I think about every day is, ‘what are the descendants of vampires’ and ‘how to become the descendants of vampires’!”

Louise’s loose hair swayed from side to side as she said excitedly: “And become ‘your descendants’? I don’t even know what kind of relationship we have right now! Is this normal for us? Will I be in any danger? !” She stared at our vampire: “And you, you refuse to tell me anything! ”

Zach looked at the excited Louise, the beautiful and smart woman now seemed vulnerable. Zach realized that his silence on this issue had disturbed the woman’s mind.

Although she blamed Zach for his silence, for some reason, she shifted all her anger to James for telling her about it. Probably only women can have such complex emotions.

Zach couldn’t help but feel a little resentful about what Benjamin did.

Zach looked away from Louise’s body, thought for a while, and asked softly, “Are you worried about your safety?”

Louise looked at Zach’s eyes, and was quite surprised that Zach seemed to have missed the key point. But at the same time, she also regretted that she had just disclosed her fear.

Zach said before Louise could reply, “If you feel insecure, you should trust your instincts and leave here.”

Louise hugged her shoulders, and opened and closed her mouth several times, but not once was she able to make any sound. After a moment, Louise bit her lower lip, turned around, ran out of the office, and the noise of her stepping barefoot on the stairs guardedly faded away. Zach sat silently in the chair, listening to the noise from the upper floor, dressing, pulling open the wardrobe, removing the clothes, stuffing the suitcase, dragging the suitcase downstairs...

“Humph!” Old Hank’s voice: “Pretty woman doesn’t like this old man anymore and wants to leave now!”

Benjamin pushed open the side door of the office, leaning on the side, watching Louise dragging the suitcase down the stairs. She didn’t seem to want to see Zach again, ignoring the office door Benjamin had opened, almost slammed the door open and then stormed out.

Alice, who was on the second floor with a picture of Benjamin and was telling Lola a story, saw this and hurried out. But Louise had already left the Grande Funeral Home’s backyard and headed to the main road.

The banshee wandered anxiously on the side of the road, but she dared not chase out.

“What happened to Louise?” Benjamin asked in confusion, and closed the door, holding an old newspaper in his hand.

Zach shook his head without answering but looked at the newspaper in Benjamin’s hands: “Did you find it?”

Benjamin nodded, “I found it, are we going to investigate it? It doesn’t seem to be easy.” Benjamin handed the newspaper to Zach.

Zach took it, glanced at the poor man’s surname in the report, and shook his head. He folded the report and put it in the drawer. “It can be proved that it was not done by the things that were attracted to Barton by the shape-shifter’s rumor. We can ignore it at the moment.”

Benjamin nodded and sat opposite Zach, played with his figures in a bored manner.

Zach frowned, what happened today? Why did everyone seem to be reluctant to leave his office?

“You should change your clothes.” Zach pointed to Benjamin’s torn shirt sleeve and reminded him.

Benjamin tilted his head, “Lola.”

Zach nodded. It seemed that the two brothers of the Grande family encountered the similar problem...

“Hmm...” Benjamin drawled, trying to find a topic, “How was the conversation with Anthony?”

Zach shook his head: “He will go to the mill in the afternoon. We will talk about it later. Do you want to go as well?”

Benjamin thought for a while and shook his head: “I think I will pass, there are some stones over [Ford’s Funeral Home], I will have to go there a few more times.”

Ford had previously promised to give useless stones to the Grande Funeral Home. Although it was a gift, they did not lose anything, because these stones were bought using the city government’s money. After privatization, those things that were no longer useful had no value other than taking up spaces. No one would be interested in buying the stones that were used for making tombstones for home use.

But the people at Grande Funeral Home were too thrifty. They didn’t even want to hire other people to transport those stones for them. All of them were transported by Benjamin’s junk truck bit by bit. Ford was already somewhat dissatisfied with this competitor’s always going in and out of his territory. He had already urged Benjamin to hurry up.

“Okay.” Zach nodded. “I don’t have anything to do now.” Zach felt slightly upset and didn’t want to stay in the office. “I’ll go first. You can take me and Maddison to the mill.”

“Okay.” Benjamin stood up: “I’m going to change clothes first.” Benjamin thought he had finally found an excuse to avoid Lola.

Today is Sunday, Lola, who didn’t have to go to school, had a reason to come here. As long as he could get through today, and after five days of campus life, Lola may not remember this little admiration again. But Benjamin has underestimated his charm.

While waiting for Benjamin to change clothes, let me introduce the ‘Mill’.

The Mill is a place where Madison, I will be working.

Grande Funeral Home has successfully obtained the opportunity to cooperate with the Barton Police’s Southern District Branch. But as everyone expected, the southern part of Barton was considered to be a suburb and the countryside. So the Barton Police’s Southern District Branch was very small. Previously, regarding all the cases here, if any victims needed forensic identification, they would need to be sent directly to the head office in the Northern District. After all, Barton was still a young city. It was sometimes still considered a suburban place, and the public facilities were not very perfect. Besides, a 40-minute drive wasn’t that far.

The city government took the opportunity of this funeral business privatization to upgrade the facility of the Bartron Police’s Southern District Branch. They requisitioned a piece of land not far from the Barton Police’s Southern District Branch was, and intended to build standard identification facilities.

At a place not far from the place where the forensic identification facility was going to be built, Grande Funeral Home acquired an abandoned mill, which was going to be a branch of Grande Funeral Home, and was going to establish a cremation facility while cooperating with the Barton Police Southern Branch. The vampire would never allow himself to live in a place that had an incinerator, for the sake of his own safety and that of his siblings. So, this was a good opportunity.

However, Zach did not pay a single penny, but just transferred the check signed by the Barton Police to the city government, and I was so lucky that I went from the bottom of the society straight to the middle class and had my own business...

Well, this was what made Anthony angry. After all, at this moment, Anthony didn’t know that I was just a harmless minor character.