"Get out of my way! Do you know who I am? How dare you stop me!"
The arrogant, domineering voice caused Mango to frown slightly and it made Nathaniel unhappy as well.
"I'll get someone to deal with it."
As he spoke, Nathaniel stood up to leave but Mango suddenly grabbed his wrist.
"Don't go, it's Andrea."
"Who?"
Nathaniel felt that the name sounded familiar, but he couldn't seem to place it.
Mango replied in a low voice when she saw Nathaniel's confused expression. "Andrea is Minster Xiao's other daughter."
Nathaniel finally had a vague idea of her, and a trace of disgust appeared in her eyes.
"Isn't she in the United States?"
"Since we're all back in Ocean City, it would be strange if she didn't come back. I think she's here for Minister Xiao."
Mango was visibly affected by Andrea's presence as she referred to Queena as Minister Xiao again.
Nathaniel still remembered Andrea's determination to pursue him, but he didn't know if Dylan had come along with her.
Right now, Mango really needed to rest and who knew what kind of trouble Andrea would cause if she showed up in front of Mango.
Although no one dared to openly provoke Mango in Ocean City, there may be people with malicious intentions who lurked in the shadows. Hence, Nathaniel was quite worried about that.
"I'll give Dylan a call."
At that, Mango nodded her head.
Then, Nathaniel picked up his phone and went to the window before he called Dylan.
"Hey, where are you?"
"Ocean City."
Dylan's voice sounded frustrated.
Then, Nathaniel laughed rather coldly and said, "Can't you handle her?"
Dylan was absolutely embarrassed at Nathaniel's obvious provocation, but he sighed when he thought of Andrea. "No, I really can't."
"Ugh, you're such a coward. As long as you don't bother me or my wife, you two can do whatever you want. I'm not going to bring up what happened in the United States, but I won't be so forgiving to her again if she insists on coming after me."
After saying that, Nathaniel hung up the phone.
As Dylan listened to the dial tone on the phone, he rubbed his temples in frustration as he looked at Andrea screaming in front of him.
Meanwhile, Nathaniel whispered to Mango, "Why don't we go somewhere else to rest?"
"Sounds good! We're bound to run into trouble here, and I wouldn't know how to explain the situation if I ran into Madam Hans. But, I don't really know where we should go.'¹
Mango immediately agreed to Nathaniel's suggestion.
To be honest, Mango didn't like the smell of hospitals at all. Before this, she'd stayed in the hospital for half a year and Rita had been living in a hospital for five years. Frankly, that was enough to traumatise her.
On the other hand, Nathaniel was glad to see that Mango had agreed to his proposal so easily.
"I'll handle it, but you still have to stay here for a few more days under observation. Well go once the doctor gives his approval."
"Okay, but you'd better not head out now, in case you bump into Andrea. I don't really want to see her for now."
In fact, Mango didn't feel like receiving guests right now.
"Okay. Let's ignore whatever that is happening outside and just do our own things."
"All right."
Mango had the same thoughts as Nathaniel.
Meanwhile, Andrea was still kicking up a fuss outside. However, she fell silent after someone came and told her off.
Then, both Mango and Nathaniel exchanged a sly smile before they went about their own duties.
Mango slept well that night despite some ruckus from Andrea, but Nathaniel wouldn't go outside no matter what. Hence, he didn't bump into Andrea at all, so it was relatively quiet for now.
The next day, Queena called ahead to let them know that she wouldn't be coming because she had to run some errands. After Nathaniel received the news, he had Thomas arrange to have food delivered to them, but he didn't expect that the deliveryman would be Charlotte.
"Charlotte? You came!"
Mango was especially delighted to see Charlotte.
Then, Charlotte held up the thermos in her hand and said, "Well, since I'm unemployed, what else can I do besides taking care of you?"
"What happened?"
In fact, Mango recalled that Charlotte had been doing well at her job, so why did she suddenly get fired?
Could it be that Charlotte got fired because she went AWOL after of the incident with Walter?
Before Mango could ask, Charlotte answered angrily, "It's all because of that Walter Song! I just found out that his family owns the company I work at, and he used his position as CEO to make me clean the toilets! I'll be d*mned if I willingly keep doing that! Hmph! I don't believe that I won't be able to find a job elsewhere! But that son of a b*tch used his influence to ban me from every other company in Ocean City! Well, I'm too tired to play games with him now, I'll deal with him after you get better."
Mango was quite surprised when she heard
Charlotte's words.
She never thought that Walter would really screw with Charlotte.
"Do you need me to call him? Perhaps it's all just a simple misunderstanding, so by then..."
"No need for that. I'll deal with him myself, so all you need to do is focus on your recovery."
As Charlotte finished speaking, Nathaniel cut in faintly. "Despite knowing that she needs to recover, you're still annoying her with your problems."
"Oh, what's your problem? I'm just talking to Mango, why are you getting jealous?"
Although Charlotte had a more favourable impression of Nathaniel now, it didn't mean that she would be nicer to him. Hence, this annoyed Nathaniel so much that he gave up on talking to her.
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