Hearing his explanation about the assassin woman, Eva felt that she might have really stumbled upon something valuable, and her curiosity was piqued. So, with a gleam in her eyes, she looked at the assassin, who was struggling to stand on her own, and said.
"Ooh, to that extent?"
Christian, not minding Eva's expression, which now showed curiosity, simply answered,
"Yes." Then, while scrutinizing the assassin's face, he added,
"Most importantly, how were you able to find that she's beautiful with that bruised face and disheveled hair in the first place?"
Eva, smiling charmingly, simply replied,
Feeling like she was deliberately trying to be mysterious, Christian, with a deadpan expression, said,
"For me, it's not, and that's why I asked."
He then walked toward the assassin woman, Read the latest chapters on NovelHub - completely free! Feeling genuinely curious, he extended his hand, and holding her chin, turned her face to either side, but in the end, he couldn't get that feeling Eva talked about.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Interrupted by Eva's voice, he let go of her chin and turned his head toward her, only to find that she was glaring at him, half-jokingly, but also half-seriously.
So, feeling that maybe he had done something wrong, he answered innocently,
"To a young woman? And rudely like that?"
Hearing her reprimand as she continued lecturing, where it turned out that the identity of being a woman came first, even before being an assassin.
Christian just went along with that, not caring. Then, he looked at her car, a little distance away, and finally remembered something. He interrupted her,
"You know? Take my car this time and leave yours. I don't want to bother myself with the repairs and the like."
Eva, seeing how he didn't even try to listen to what she said, helplessly replied.
"Okay." She then turned her head to the side, where her maid was, and added,
"Sophia, you heard that?"
Eva replied casually about the car, and Christian, who didn't know much about them, and how this one, especially, was a car that had cost Eva a fortune due to all the features she tried to include, naturally didn't understand Sophia's reaction and displeasure.
So, when he started feeling the faint signs of warning from his danger awareness skill, Christian couldn't help but turn his sharp eyes toward the source of it.
Looking at the person responsible, he found it was Eva's maid, Sophia, who seemed no different than usual. It turned out she was the one, not the assassin next to her, who was looking at everything impassively, seemingly resigned to it all, and that made Christian feel his mood sour even further. So, he glared at her and addressed Eva.
"Eva, are you actually training your people to think it's okay to have the intention to attack their owners?"
Suddenly hearing Christian growl as he questioned, with his unpleasant expression on top of that, Eva took a moment to piece things together. In the end, her expression shifted to one of displeasure as she looked at Sophia and asked instead.
"Sophia, what did you do?"
Being glared at by two people, one she served and the other one she could potentially serve in the future, Sophia seemed to find that a little uncomfortable. Still, with her characteristic neutral tone, she replied.
"I didn't do anything."
Eva, despite knowing it was a lie, didn't want to make a problem out of whatever this was. She didn't want to lose her only valuable person through infighting, after all. At least not .
So, taking a deep breath to suppress her irritation, she finally returned to her smiling expression, looked at Christian, and said,
"It seems there was some problem in communication between us. I will see to it later."
"More importantly, we should take care of the assassin now, right?"
Christian, catching the displeasure in Eva's expression despite her attempt to hide it because of her maid, simply nodded in the end. He felt that she probably had her own reasons and didn't want to snap at her maid in front of him. While it was a move he didn't like, as it suggested some reservation between them, he decided to address it later and just nodded for now.
Seeing Christian nod in agreement, Eva felt relieved that he didn't say anything more and responded.
"Well, then, I will get going."
Christian, holding Eva's hand, stared at her for a moment before finally saying,
"I will be waiting for you tomorrow morning."
After nodding to him, Eva finally left with the maid, the assassin woman, and the damaged car.
Once they had covered some distance, Eva opened her mouth, her anger barely contained, and in a cold voice devoid of warmth, she said.
"What do you think you keep doing lately, even with my orders?"
And Sophia, in the face of that, seemingly finally bursting with frustration, spoke in a voice slightly louder than usual, the calm demeanor she always maintained breaking due to her growing concerns.
"In just three days, he's already been visited by two assassins. Does the miss really think he can keep coming out of these situations unscathed?"
"How much longer can he endure, in the first place?"
"Most importantly, with young miss Olivia now attending the Academy, and with her talent, do you really need to place all your hopes on a kid who has nothing but some measly abilities?"
"So, seeing him up close, when he casually asked about your most expensive car, the one you put so much effort into, as if it were spare change, I couldn't help but entertain the thought that maybe I should just get rid of him myself. To establish a clear line between him and us, so no trouble will come our way later."
While Eva felt like she was on the verge of exploding at any moment, listening to Sophia's words, she managed to endure, though rage bubbled fiercely inside her heart, nonetheless.