novelxo Chapter 1411
Julien's cold voice sounded, "Where are you?"
Why did he suddenly ask where she was?
Did he go to her place again?
She was not sure. Vanessa asked him back, "Where are you?"
Julien repeated his question, "Where are you?"
Julien's words were cold as usual. Vanessa could feel that his patience was running thin, so she'd better answer him quickly or she would have to suffer.
Vanessa thought for a moment and asked, "What's the matter?"
Julien asked again, "Where are you?"
Since she could not dodge the question, Vanessa racked her brain for a solution. She thought that Julien probably was not at her place. Moreover, he looked angry when he left her house the night before. According to her understanding of Julien, she was almost certain that Julien wouldn't go to her place in the coming few days.
Vanessa answered, "I'm at home."
Julien said, "Go freshen up now. I'll get the driver to pick you up in five minutes."
"What?" Vanessa unconsciously raised her voice. However, she felt that it was not good to talk to him in such a tone, so she quickly softened her voice and said, "Umm, it's Saturday today. Didn't we agree that we won't meet on Saturdays?"
"It seems like you've forgotten an important term." After saying that, Julien hung up the phone. Vanessa listened to the disconnected tone and thought of the term that Julien was talking about, that is, no matter when, as long as he called her, she must go to him.
However, at this moment, she was not in Chatterton Town. It was impossible that the driver would be able to pick her up in five minutes. Vanessa bit her lips, thinking that she was really done for. It looked like she would be losing a large sum of money again.
"Big bad guy!" Lawrie shouted out all of a sudden.
"Baby, who is the big bad guy?" Vanessa bent over to hold Lawrie's tiny face in her palms and asked.
"The person calling you is a big bad guy!" Lawrie pouted, speaking in a tone filled with righteous indignation.
"Why do you say that?"
"Because he made you unhappy."
"No... It's just that..." Vanessa didn't know how to explain it. If it weren't for Julien, she couldn't even afford the down payment for Lawrie's surgery. In fact, he was their savior.
"I don't like that big bad guy!"
"Okay. Since you don't like him, I'll just switch off my phone so that he couldn't call me anymore, okay?" Since she couldn't go back to Chatterton Town in five minutes, Vanessa thought that she might as well switch off her phone and not think about it anymore. She would just let Julien deduct the money if he wanted to.
"Okay." Lawrie took Vanessa's mobile phone and helped her turn it off. Then, he held Vanessa's hand and said, "Mommy, let's go get chicken wings."
"Okay. I'll listen to whatever you say," Vanessa said. She picked Lawrie up into her arms and enjoyed the rare family time they had together.
After hanging up the phone, Julien glimpsed across the empty room with his cold eyes.
She was at home?
Humph!
Vanessa was really getting more daring now. She actually lied to him. He would really like to see how she would cover up this lie.
However, after waiting for another five minutes, Julien still did not receive any calls from Vanessa.
Huh...
She's indeed getting bolder.
Julien once again dialed Vanessa's phone number. However, the only thing he could hear coming through the phone was a cold automated voice, "The number you have dialed is currently unavailable. Please try again later."
Julien's expression changed repeatedly, just like the weather before a storm.
He immediately dialed another phone number. "Freeze Vanessa Love's bank account now."
Lawrie was young, but because his mother was not by his side all the time, he was much more sensible than his peers. Whenever Miss Ziglar brought him out, he had never asked for any toys even if he liked i very much. However, it was different when he was with his mother. After all, a young child like him would like to bring the things that he liked back home.
He was holding a toy car as he said, "Mommy, I want this toy car!"
"Sure, if you like it, we'll buy it." Children's toys did not cost a lot of money. As long as Lawrie liked it, Vanessa usually would not refuse his request.
After putting the toy car into the shopping cart, Lawrie turned around and saw a ball. "Mommy, I want this ball too."
Vanessa nodded. "Okay, let's take it."
After spending some time at the supermarket, the shopping cart was already filled with Lawrie's toys. However, Lawrie did not plan to stop. He wished that Vanessa could buy each and every toy at the supermarket for him.
Vanessa took Lawrie's hand and poked his face. "Baby, if you keep putting all these toys into the cart, I'm afraid that we won't be able to bring it all back home. Why don't we go get the ingredients that we need for the honey chicken wings first?"
"Okay." Lawrie nodded and spread his arms towards Vanessa. Vanessa picked him up and put him on the seat in the shopping cart. Then, she heard Lawrie say sweetly, "Mommy, I want a kiss." "Sure, Baby." Vanessa kissed Lawrie's cheeks a few times, and Lawrie did the same thing to
Vanessa too.
The mother and son kissed each other and laughed. Both of them looked at each other and anyone could tell that they were happy from the bottom of their hearts.
After getting the ingredients, Vanessa pushed the shopping cart to the till.
Vanessa took out her credit card and handed it to the cashier, but the payment could not go through. The cashier said, "Madam, your credit card is frozen. Do you have another one?"
"It's frozen? Why though?" Vanessa made sure she paid her bills on time and she had never encountered any problem with her card before this. She asked, "Why is it frozen?"
"Well, you'll have to call the bank to ask," answered the cashier politely. "I don't know much about this."
Vanessa took out another card and handed it to the cashier. The cashier tried doing the payment but it was the same. Vanessa instantly understood what was going on. She must have offended Julien for switching off her phone. However, she didn't expect that he would do things to this extent.
Vanessa took out her mobile phone and opened a mobile wallet application. However, the first thing that popped up on the screen was, "Your account is under suspicion of illegal trading so we have frozen your account. If you have any further enquiries, please feel free to contact our customer service."
All her accounts were frozen. Hence, she could only pay by cash. However, in a time where mobile payments were so widely used, Vanessa did not have much cash on her.
Vanessa took out all the money she had on her and counted them. She only had 100 dollars with her. Looking at the cart filled with toys, she knew that it wasn't enough to pay for everything.
Vanessa didn't want to disappoint Lawrie, so she moved to the side so that the other customers could pay first. She gave Julien a call but no one answered. She tried over and over again... Until the sixth time, the call finally got through. Julien said in a cold voice, "What's the matter?"
Vanessa took a few deep breaths before she said, "Why did you freeze all of my accounts?"
Julien asked, "Do I need a reason to do that?" Vanessa did not know how to answer him.
She took another few deep breaths and said, "I need the money now."
Julien hung up on her. Other than when she was in need of money, had there been an instance that she would actually think of him? Julien wondered.