Chapter 101 Hello? Stewart? Why Did You Hang Up?
After Ebony went out of the airport, she turned around to curiously look for her fans to see if they also came out.
However, before she could see the fans, she was thrust into a black commercial car by Lloyd.
While Ebony was leaning on the window, she still looked back.
The car started.
Ebony looked at the airport exit that was getting farther and farther. She sighed and turned back in disappointment.
Mathew who was driving laughed and said, "Ebo...Bah, Ebony, you are so popular now. Why does your agency trust you to go back alone and not arrange a car to pick you up?"
Ebony gave Mathew a strange look and said, "They may haven't expected that there would be persons to pick me up at the airport."
At this moment, Ebony's phone rang.
She took it out and saw that it was a phone from Dolores.
Ebony answered it and heard Dolores's voice immediately. "Where are you going? Whose car is that?"
Then she saw there was a white car following their car.
Dolores was driving the car!
Ebony said to Lloyd, "Pull over. My agent is here to pick me up."
Lloyd's eyes darkened and raised his hand to gesture Mathew to pull over.
Ebony transferred to Dolores' car.
Dolores' sophisticated eyes were staring at the black commercial car that drove away. Then she turned around and asked Ebony, "Is that Lloyd's car?"
Ebony sat in the passenger seat and fastened her seat belt. she said, "Yeah."
"Are Lloyd and you close now?"
"Yeah. Quite close."
Dolores frowned and started the car. Then she said, "I watched your livestream and it's so popular. It is a trending topic every day. You really shoot to fame now."
Ebony heard that and was so complacent.
She pushed her fringe off her forehead with her fingers, leaving no trace. She said casually, "Am I popular? But there were fans who came to pick me up at the airport. Maybe I'm popular."
Dolores glanced at her. "Don't be complacent. It's a temporary popularity. How long can it help you? There were so many young male and female stars who suddenly rose to fame last year. But they become unknown just in a year."
Ebony shrugged her shoulders and said in frustration, "So can"t I feel happy?"
"It's okay to be happy but don't be complacent." Dolores said impersonally, "I'll take you home first and you get a good rest. Tomorrow we will talk about the work in the company. By the way, I have gotten an assistant for you. Her name is Janet. She is experienced. I will tell her to pick you up tomorrow. And the company also provided you with a car. Janet will be your driver."
Ebony heard that good news and immediately cheered up. "A car? How can I take it?"
Dolores said, "Will you feel embarrassed to take it?"
Ebony asked at once, "Will the company reimburse the gasoline consumption?"
Dolores was speechless.
Dolores took a deep breath. "Pay it by yourself!"
"How expensive is that..." Ebony frowned and muttered. Then she thought of something and her pupils dilated. "Should I pay the assistant salary?"
"Of course!" Dolores was so amazed by her. "All stars of the company should pay their assistants salaries themselves. The assistant's salary is not high, just 600 dollars a month. You can raise her salary if she does well."
"Are you kidding me?"
Ebony was shocked. "I can't earn 600 dollars a month!"
"You will earn it in the future."
As Dolores said that, she saw that Ebony was so worried just like she would be sunk. Dolores added. "As for Lloyd, you can't avoid to interact with him in the show. But in private, you should better try to reduce interaction with him as much as possible."
Ebony tilted her head to look at Dolores.
Dolores said, "Netizens joked that your relationship with Lloyd was a friendship and brotherhood. His fans also thank you for you had been protecting him all the way. However, you are not attending a show now. If you are still close to Lloyd, his fans will hate you."
Ebony fell silent.
Dolores asked, "Did you hear my words?"
Ebony nodded. "Yes. But I still have something to do with him. So I can't keep a distance from him unless you help me."
Dolores was stunned. "How can I help you?"
Ebony said, "I owe him money, not much, just over 150 dollars. I had already repaid him some money but I still owe him 180 dollars."
As Ebony said that, she took out her phone and clicked on the WhatsApp payment. Then she showed Dolores her QR code of receiving money. She said, "Thank you, Dolores."
Dolores was speechless.
When she eventually took Ebony home, she indeed gave Ebony money.
She gave Ebony 1,500 dollars.
What Dolores feared was that Janet would be fired by Ebony when she went to work tomorrow.
She was also afraid that Ebony would take buses with Janet and not drive the company car. So Dolores also gave her the money for gasoline consumption.
Ebony received the money and she was so happy.
She instantly repaid Lloyd 150 dollars.
Probably Lloyd was busy now so he didn't receive the money.
Ebony didn't take it seriously. She invited Dolores to have a dinner in her home and cooked two packets of instant noodles. It costed 0.4 dollars a packet. One bowl of noodles was for Ebony and another for Dolores.
When Dolores saw the instant noodles, she rolled her eyes.
Ebony said in a good manner, "I was in the film and then attended the variety show. It's been more than two months since I left. I only have the instant noodles at home."
Dolores stayed at Ebony's home for over an hour and told her something about her work. When Dolores was about to leave, Ebony's phone rang. The property notified her that there was a package for her.
"What did you buy?" Dolores asked casually.
Ebony said confusedly, "I didn't buy anything. I was not in Clarida before. How can I have spare time to buy something?"
Dolores became nervous. It was so common that anti-fans sent bloody packages.
"I'll get it for you."
Ebony also worried that something would happen. In the end, she and Dolores went to get the package together.
They were in the property room and they opened the box there.
The box was opened.
Ebony was astounded as she saw an owl clock in the box.
"A clock?"
Dolores asked suspiciously, "Is it sent by anti-fans? Mean an end?"
Ebony pursed her lips.
She stretched out her hand and stroked the pattern of the clock with her fingertips.
It wasn't the owl clock that her dad once had but it was very similar to it. They might have been made by the same manufacturer.
Her dad's clock was an antique. And this clock might also be an antique which could be known from its trace. But this one was not older than her dad's.
Ebony noticed that there was a folded card in the box.
She took out the card and opened it. A cashier receipt flew out from it.
It was written in German and its price was 30,000 euros.
That was equal to more than 30,000 dollars.
Just at this moment, Ebony's phone rang again. She checked it and saw that Lloyd received the money. He also sent her a text.
Lloyd: [I was on a business trip before and saw a clock. I thought you might like it. So I sent it to you. Don't forget to receive it.]
Ebony stared at the message and fell silent.
After a long time, Ebony raised her hand and handed her phone and the receipt to Dolores.
She asked tentatively, "Dolores, would you help me repay it? 30,000 dollars. I will cut off the connection with Lloyd immediately after repaying it!"
Dolores was speechless.
At this time, in the Vasquez's ancestral house in Sluvale, Lloyd put down his phone and smiled.
When he looked up again, he saw that his father was calling someone in the living room.
Lloyd walked into the living room.
Then he heard that his father said, "It's really unexpected. Stewart, Ebs is your missing child..."
"Yeah, of course I knew her. When she was a child, I hugged her. Of course she is cute. I met her in the hospital. When I was about to leave, she still pulled my sleeve and wouldn't let me go..."
"Why should I lie to you? I said Uncle was leaving and she just kept crying. She must like me very much and didn't want me to leave... Hello, hello? Stewart? Why did you hang up? "
Lloyd was speechless.