Chapter 540 From Finland
The anticipated first love ended without success before it even began. The sad girl couldn't rest all night. Until dawn, Caroline simply packed her luggage and left her room.
She had planned to leave quietly, but he might not care about him anyway.
The hotel corridor was empty, leading to the elevator to the left, and Eric's room was not far from the right. She looked around and hesitated, but in the end she couldn't resist some expectations in her heart. She also found a very reasonable reason for herself. It would be too rude to say goodbye to the upbringing she received since childhood.
When she arrived at the door of Eric's room, Caroline reached out and rang the doorbell, then waited quietly, thinking quickly in her heart about what she should say after waiting. Maybe he would keep herself again. In this way, she would forgive him what he said yesterday. She always felt that she was a very tolerant girl, not to mention that she liked him so much.
Then the door opened, and the tall blonde girl appeared in front of her yesterday afternoon. The girl was simply wearing a pink silk pajama. The marks supported by the Huns showed that there was nothing else inside, and two smooth and round legs were exposed below. Anyone could see this situation that she must have lived here last night.
"Good morning, Miss Wilson, Eric happened to be taking a shower. Are you doing anything?" Claudia politely signaled Caroline to come in, and did not make any other manifestations because the girl in front of her suddenly became depressed. She was a very smart woman and would never take the initiative to ask about other women around Eric.
Caroline stood in front of Claudia, who was much taller than herself, shrank her neck with some inferiority, suppressed the sourness in her heart, gently twitched her nose, and whispered: "Miss Shiver, I'm just here to say goodbye to Eric. Please tell him, I'm back to London."
After the girl finished speaking, she walked towards the elevator in panic without waiting for Claudia to reply.
Claudia leaned over and looked at the girl's distraught back. She walked back to the guest room, knocked on the bathroom door, and told Eric what had just happened.
Caroline walked out of the hotel and was standing on the side of the road to stop a taxi. She heard a voice behind her calling herself, turned her head and looked at her, and Eric had already chased her out.
Eric came to the girl and stood there before he breathed a sigh of relief. He buttoned the last two buttons of his shirt and said, "Carolyn, I'll take you to the airport later. I'm not at ease, you are a girl."
The girl was a little moved when she heard Eric's words, but immediately turned around in anger: "No need, Eric, you'd better... go back with Miss Shiver, I can go back myself."
Eric tied up the buttons of his shirt, ignored Caroline's words just now, and took the girl's luggage bag: "Let's go. I will ask someone to buy a plane ticket for you. It's better to have breakfast first, it's not OK to eat breakfast."
After Eric finished speaking, seeing Caroline still pursing her thin pink lips, she had to use her trick, reaching out to hold the girl's little hand, and walking into the hotel.
The moment he was pulled by Eric's warm and rough big hands, Caroline's resistance disappeared completely, with her little head lowered and her face red. She followed Eric quietly like an obedient and good baby.
After breakfast, Eric took Caroline to Berlin's Shenefeld Airport by hotel car, helped the girl get the tickets, and contacted Rachel in London to pick up the plane at that time. She kept accompanying the girl until the flight to London started boarding, and Eric watched Caroline walk on the boarding passage with confidence.
Hearing the movement of the door being opened, Claudia, who was leaning on the living room sofa watching TV, supported herself and leaned on the back of the sofa, looking at Eric: "Send it away?"
Eric nodded slightly and walked over to stop the girl's slender waist from leaning against the sofa.
Claudia felt Eric's somewhat disappointed mood and couldn't help but say, "Since you like her too, why do you let her leave?"
"Because I'm a good person." Eric shook his head mockingly, and saw the girl in her arms rolling her eyes and said, "Do you know who she is?"
"How could I not know, the only daughter of Count Wilson, Berkshire. I heard about it last month when I was in Hollywood. The newspapers were saying that you were planning to marry each other. When I came here yesterday, I was afraid that you would drive me away because of my civilian origin."
Eric gently pinched Claudia's soft waist: "Okay, don't tease me, have you had breakfast?"
"Of course," Claudia chuckled, rubbing into Eric's arms: "I'm going out to play today, I can be your tour guide."
As soon as Caroline was sent away, he immediately took another girl to appear in public. Eric himself had no worries, but if he appeared in the newspaper, it would definitely make Caroline's family feel extremely embarrassed. Eric originally planned to refuse. After thinking about it, he found a travel album from a bunch of magazines under the coffee table. After searching for a while, he said, "Let's go to other cities to get rid of paparazzi. How about Prague?"
Claudia also put her head around. Prague is the capital of the Czech Republic, only more than 200 kilometers away from Berlin. However, the girl shook her head and said, "You need to apply for a visa when you go to Prague. Although the tourist visa is very fast, it is definitely impossible for us to go anywhere today."
Eric also realized that the EU has just been established for two years and has only six member states. After drawing on the map for a while, Eric picked the Netherlands, which is also an EU country: "Then go to Amsterdam."
"Okay, I'll go change my clothes and call my agent by the way. He's now in Paris to help me negotiate an endorsement contract," Claudia stood up and walked towards the bedroom.
Eric finished rummaging through a travel album and walked into the bedroom. Claudia had already changed her clothes and was standing by the desk, taking out her mobile phone and address book from her Chanel bag and searching for the number.
Eric glanced at Claudia casually and was about to walk towards the closet, but was attracted by the mobile phone in her hand.
Claudia had just found the agent's temporary number and was about to call it, she felt Eric coming behind her, reaching out to take away her mobile phone, and hugging her waist.
Claudia thought Eric was suddenly intrigued, and turned her head and glared at him with some anger. Just as she was about to lie on the big desk, she found Eric was playing with her mobile phone carefully.
Claudia blushed at what she had just thought, turned her body toward Eric: "Is there any problem?"
Eric held the mobile phone in his hand. He came to Claudia apologetically and kissed her curved lips: "Sorry, baby, we may not be able to go to Amsterdam, but maybe in a few days, I can take you to Finland."
"What," Claudia asked in confusion.
Eric pointed to the eye-catching 'nokia' logo on the mobile phone: "This mobile phone is from Finland."
Claudia still had a confused expression, but Eric was a little excited. He kept caring about Apple, but ignored the emergence of Apple phones. Nokia, which dominated more than 40% of the global mobile phone market, is also a giant with a highest market value of more than 200 billion US dollars.
Moreover, in the original time and space, Apple only started to rise slowly in 2007, which is too far away from now. However, Nokia's rapid development is something that will happen in recent years. If it can intervene now, it will be another huge amount of wealth.
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Rachel sat in the Heathrow Airport waiting hall, listening to the noise of a pickup beside her helplessly, staring at the entrance and exit not far away. Until a familiar figure appeared in her field of view, Rachel breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and said to a young man who looked pretty attractive next to her: "Sorry, Mr. Luke, my girlfriend is back."
Rachel deliberately emphasized her tone on the ‘girlfriend’. After saying that, she ignored the young man’s surprised expression and walked straight towards Caroline.
After approaching, Rachel discovered Caroline's strangeness. The girl's pretty white and tender face had no previous aura. Her thin lips were pursed into a line. Her eyelashes were drooping, and her beautiful blonde hair, which was originally fluffy and slightly curly, was soft and drooping. Every strand looked so listless, and a small person floated in the crowd. It gave people the feeling of a poor cat who had just been abandoned by her owner and was drifted in heavy rain.
"Carolyn, what's wrong with you?" Rachel quickly walked forward and asked with concern.
Caroline looked up and saw that it was Rachel. Her pursed lips immediately collapsed, and her eyes pounced on Rachel's arms with red eyes: "Woooo, wuwoo. Rachel, he...he rejected me."
Rachel, who had thought something big had happened, felt relieved when she heard Caroline's words, but she also knew that this little girl who had just started to fall in love was definitely a big blow, so Rachel still hugged the girl tightly, patted her back and comforted her: "Okay, don't cry anymore, I've told you a long time ago, Eric Williams is a playboy, you were..."
"Woooooo, he is not," the girl sobbed and retorted.
Rachel was a little helpless, but had to follow the girl in her arms: "Okay, he is not."
"Woooo, he's a bad guy," the girl said quickly again.
"Well, he's a bad guy," Rachel said in cooperation.
Caroline leaned in Rachel's arms and cried for a while before finally stopping her sobs and whispered: "Rachel, I miss my mom."
Rachel wiped the girl's face, hung her backpack on her shoulder, grabbed Caroline's little hand and walked out: "Let's go, I'll take you home."
Caroline followed Rachel obediently until the two left the airport hall, and suddenly murmured: "He took my hand."
Rachel took out the key, opened the door of his high-displacement Jaguar King, stuffed the girl into the passenger seat, and said, "I know, today's Daily Mail has a photo."
Caroline looked at Rachel nervously: "Well, what do they say?"
"No matter what they do, the Daily Mail is a gossip tabloid that likes to talk nonsense."
Rachel said, turning around and turning onto the highway. When Caroline saw her habitually trying to step on the accelerator, she didn't bother asking. She quickly put on her seat belt and said, "Rachel, can you drive slowly? It's too dangerous."
"Okay, little baby, listen to you all today," Rachel lowered her speed. She visited Caroline's manor several times, so there was no need for the girl to guide her. After leaving the airport, she drove along the highway towards the northwest.
After the speed was stable, Rachel carefully tentatively: "Do you feel better? Do you want to tell me what's going on?"
After a moment of silence, Caroline whispered: "He suddenly said yesterday that we were not suitable."
When Rachel saw the girl throwing such a sentence, she didn't speak anymore. She couldn't help but sigh and didn't ask anything. She knew that Caroline still had a deep affection for Eric, and must have hidden some things for him at this time. However, Rachel also knew that although this girl was a little weak, she sometimes liked to be stubborn. Even the eight cows could not get back the matter they knew.
The Jaguar King passed by Windsor town and walked forward for more than ten kilometers before coming outside Wilson Manor next to a tributary of the Thames River.
The manor's doorman saw the car parked outside the gate and went forward to ask a few questions. Then he saw the car window rolling down, revealing his lady's obviously haggard face: "Mark, it's me."
"Miss, you are finally back. The lady mentioned you in the morning, so I will notify the lady now. Oh, I will help you open the door first," the middle-aged man named Mark greeted Caroline respectfully, then hurriedly opened the large iron door of the manor before entering the security booth to pick up the phone.
Although this is not the first time I visited here, I drove through the long corridor of Wilson Manor and looked at the large manors in front of me. The British aristocratic class had long declined, and the traditional aristocratic manors and castles were extremely expensive. Because of the 75% inheritance tax in Britain, most economically weak nobles could not maintain their ancestral property, and they had to donate a large number of manors or castles, or simply abandon them. The Count Wilson family is one of the few nobles in Britain who still remain prosperous until now.
The car stopped on the side of the road, and before Rachel got out of the car, she saw a graceful woman with a few maids walking out of the castle. Seeing her mother's figure, Caroline hurriedly jumped out of the car and ran towards the woman.
Rachel got out of the car and opened the rear door and just took out Caroline's luggage bag when a maid came over to pick up her backpack.
Mrs. Wilson also came over with her daughter and reached out to Rachel, "Miss Weizi, thank you for taking care of Caroline during this period."
"You're welcome, Mrs. Wilson, Caroline is my good friend, this is what I should do," Rachel replied politely. The British awe of nobles was almost deeply engraved in her bones. Rachel was able to get along well with Caroline, mainly because the girl's simple personality concealed the sense of distance brought by the aristocratic behavior she had cultivated since childhood. However, facing Mrs. Wilson, Rachel always felt a little restrained and couldn't wait to say goodbye and leave: "Madam, since Caroline has arrived home safely, I think I should go back to London, and I still have some things in the afternoon."
"If it's not a big deal, stay for lunch," Mrs. Wilson still smiled gently and made a gesture of invitation. Caroline went forward and grabbed Rachel: "Stay, Rachel, we were on the phone the night before yesterday. I know you must have nothing to do in the afternoon."
Rachel was poked on the spot, her cheeks were slightly hot, and she really wanted to reach out and pinch the silly girl's face. Looking at Mrs. Wilson whose smile had not changed at all, Rachel could only nod slightly: "That's disturbing."
Hearing Rachel's agreement, Caroline couldn't wait to pull her towards the castle, and Mrs. Wilson, who was following her daughter, said at this time: "Caroline, go and say hello to your father later, he is in the study."
"I get it, mom."
"Also, Matthew and Robert will come back for lunch, and the little guy will come here too."
Caroline asked in surprise: "What about Charles?"
"He went to New York a week ago," Mrs. Wilson looked at her daughter drowningly: "You sister is so incompetent that she doesn't even know the whereabouts of her brother."
Caroline spitted her tongue cutely, and quickly took it back under Mrs. Wilson's stare.
Rachel, who was following them, only felt her scalp numb. Because of Caroline's little chatter, she knew very well about the situation of the Earl Wilson's family. The current Earl James Wilson has three sons and one daughter. The three sons happened to be the names of the three just now. Caroline is the youngest child in the family. Although Countess Edith Wilson looks like she is in her forties, she is actually much older because of the good maintenance. Her eldest son Matthew and second son Robert have both got married and had children. Charles, who is only four years older than Caroline, is still single, but it is said that she is already engaged.
Listening to the conversation between the mother and daughter, the people from this big family were almost gathered at noon. Thinking of this, Rachel's discomfort became stronger, and the facts proved that there was no mistake in her feeling in her heart.
With the arrival of noon, the castle in Earl Wilson's house increased and the owner's two sons, with his wife and children, and several other waves of other guests, made Rachel feel a strong sense of escape. Fortunately, the considerate Countess seemed to feel Rachel's emotions. As soon as the lunch ended, she whispered a few words to her daughter, and Caroline took Rachel back to her room. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!