One o'clock in the morning.
The black Mercedes was speeding on the road. Ruben glanced at the sleeping woman in the back seat and lowered his voice subconsciously as he asked the man in the front passenger seat, "Do you want to take her back to the villa?"
"Yes," Vincent answered while closing his eyes to rest.
"Aren't you afraid of being exposed? Don't forget that she doesn't know you're not Howard."
Vincent frowned slightly.
Ruben added, "Unless you want to come clean to her about your identity."
Silence ensued.
"I bet you don't want to come clean now, right? After all, there's something you need to do using Howard's identity, and it will only bring problems to you in the future if you come clean now," Ruben suggested. "Let's go to Howard's place. He won't be back in the next few days anyway."
Slowly opening his eyes, Vincent blurted after a long while, "Go to the villa."
His response made Ruben sigh helplessly.
Fine, he couldn't pursue this stubborn man to give up on the things he had decided to do.
Pursing his lips, Ruben turned the steering wheel and drove straight in the villa's direction.
At this moment, Vincent's low voice rang out again, "If she asks, just say that the Perkins Family bought the villa for me, and tell Morgan and the servants to be on the alert."
So he planned to ask everyone to participate in this play with him!
Dumbfounded by his extraordinary action at first, Ruben finally made sense out of it after thinking about all the bizarre and ridiculous things that he had done in the past.
As another thing flashed across his mind, Ruben frowned. "Do you remember the woman we saw in Elaine's ward who seems to be close to her?"
Vincent raised his eyebrows and asked, "Yes? What about her?"
"She knows Stanley Jones, and they are quite close too." Ruben looked at Elaine through the rearview mirror. "Don't you think it's strange that a nobody maid like her knows the people around Stanley?"
"What do you mean?" Vincent twitched his lips.
Shrugging indifferently, Ruben huffed, "Nothing. I'm just telling you so that you can think ahead."
After saying that, when he didn't get any response from Vincent, he asked again, "Shall we investigate her?"
He pouted his lips towards Elaine.
"Yes." Vincent thought about Elaine's brother whom he met at the hospital. "But I'm not interested to know about her connection with Stanley. Instead, investigate her family background and her past."
"What?"
Ruben looked as if he was doomed.
He had already made it so obvious that he was worried about how well Elaine knew Stanley, but he was more interested in her family instead.
Was Vincent planning to learn about Elaine's entire life history?
He did fall for her, didn't he?
Ruben sighed and expressed sympathy for her...
When Vincent found something he was interested in, he would think of every way to obtain it. But once he got his hands on it and tired of it after some time, he would ditch it away mercilessly.
He was indeed ruthless and cold-blooded!
Although it was midnight, Morgan was still waiting for them, and he immediately rushed to the door when he saw the car coming in.
He went straight to the front passenger seat and opened the door, and then Vincent exited the car.
"Mr. Bradbury." Morgan greeted hurriedly, "I thought you wouldn't be back tonight..."
As he spoke, he leaned to one side to make way for Vincent to go into the house, but he opened the door of the back seat, bent down, and leaned inside as if he was looking for something.
What was he doing? Morgan glanced at him in confusion.
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