Spoiled By The President: My Wife Is A Little Sweet
Chapter 715 Putting Her Guard Up

Chapter 715 Putting Her Guard up

While cooking the fish, Flora said to Natalia beamingly, "The fish in the pond are all bred by me. The meat is delicious. Tonight, I'll treat you to my best dish."

Natalia smiled and thanked her out of courtesy. She helped her get the fish ready, then lit the fire and began to cook.

But she had never cooked with fire before, and she was not good at controlling the fire.

Thus, Flora spared her from these chores. Yet, seeing that Natalia was eager to help, she told her to wash the vegetables instead.

As Natalia was on the task, she heard Flora ask, "By the way, how come you and your friend ended up here? I forgot to ask you yesterday."

Natalia puckered her lips and put the freshly washed vegetables on a basket on the side.

Seconds later, she replied, "We came here for sightseeing. Our car turned over in an accident and we fell out."

Flora turned around and looked at her in surprise.

"Geez! How dangerous that was!"

Natalia just smiled.

"But I saw you were carrying a parachute that day."

Natalia froze.

She felt perturbed.

"Oh, how poor my memory is! Why could I forget that?" she thought in annoyance.

She lied again, "Well, we were going to do skydiving that day. That's why we drove toward the mountaintop. But we had an accident on our way."

As if frightened by that thought, Flora clamped a hand over her chest.

"Good Lord! Young people like you are too reckless with their lives. Why do you love such a dangerous and thrilling sports event?"

Moments later, she asked, "So you came here only with your friend? Do you have other companies?"

Gazing at Flora, Natalia instinctively lied. "We also came with a man. But I don't know where he is at the moment."

"A man?"

"Yes."

Flora then fell silent.

Her brows knitted slightly. Natalia couldn't figure out what she was thinking about.

She had no idea why Flora asked her so many questions. But since she was in a strange place and had been hunted by some killers, she had to put her guard up.

She knew lying to her lifesaver was not what a person of integrity should do.

Even so, she was aware that she should never relax vigilance against evildoers. Plus, she was in a foreign place that she knew nothing about. To protect herself, she had to resort to lies.

A long while later, Flora forced a smile and said, "If your friend is still alive, she must also be looking for you. Do you want us to help you look for her?"

Natalia smiled faintly and said, "That would be good."

After that, Flora posed a ton of questions.

She asked about her friend's appearance, her job, age, and family members.

The more detailed her questions were, somehow, the more uneasy Natalia became.

As a result, she subconsciously lied about her life.

She told her only half of the truth.

Flora seemed astonished when she learned that Natalia was already a mother of two.

"You're already a mother?"

Natalia nodded. "Yeah. Can't you tell?"

She thought it was a given.

Flora frowned a little and clicked her tongue. Shaking her head, she said, "No, you don't look like a mother at all."

Then, she remarked with emotion, "Girls in big cities like you don't age as fast as we do. Those who are approaching 30 may still look like 18-year-old girls. If you didn't speak, I'd thought you just graduated from college."

Natalia smiled but didn't reply.

As they chatted like this, the dinner was ready.

When it was getting dark, they heard footsteps from outside.

The children who followed Natalia around were dismissed since Flora came back.

Thus, the footsteps they heard at this time must be made by Flora's husband.

Sure enough, when the two came out of the kitchen, a brawny man with dark skin strode in from outside.

"My man is back!"

Flora hurried over with joy. The man greeted her, then rested his eyes on Natalia, who was standing behind Flora.

The man's eyes slightly brightened up.

"Who is this lady..."

"She is Seven. She came here for sightseeing with her friend. But their car turned over on the way. I saw her lying in the field, so I brought her back."

As she spoke, she attentively drew the man to sit by the table, took over his coat, and dusted it. Then, she said, "You must be hungry. I bring dinner out right away."

The man waved and said, "No rush. The boy's uncle has come here. I gotta go see him in a moment."

Flora was taken aback by this.

But the next moment, she put on a big smile.

"OK. Then we'll wait for you to come back before we have dinner."

The man nodded. His eyes lay on Natalia again.

Perhaps this was Natalia's imagination, but she felt that the gaze the man gave her was too piercing. He was wantonly eyeing her with a kind of shrewdness that she couldn't understand. Then, he chuckled and said, "You're here for sightseeing? That's bold. You and your friend are lucky to have met us. If not..."

Natalia's nerves tensed as she heard him talk about her friend.

"You saw my friend?"

The man fetched out a pipe from his back and stuffed some tobacco in it. He lit it and took draws as he said, "Of course, I saw her. She's pretty. One of her legs is broken. She is now resting in that boy's uncle's. Just wait for some days for her injury to heal. Then, you can go see her."

Natalia perked up at once.

But she got a bit worried as well.

She hastily said, "I don't need to wait for her to recover. I can go there to see her right now."

The man narrowed his eyes. He sized her up as he took more draws.

A moment later, he slowly shook his head.

"You can't. That village doesn't allow outsiders to enter. They've already made an exception for your friend. They won't do that again."

After a short pause, he said in a lower voice, "You'd better wait for some time."

Now, Natalia had learned where Nancy was, but she couldn't go check on her.

How could she stand that?

She immediately became anxious. "Why won't they let outsiders in? As you can see, I'm all alone. I'm not a threat. You have no electricity or any modern ways of communication, so I can't possibly send any messages out. Then why are you still guarding against me?"

The man was clearly dazed for a moment by her remark.

For a moment, the room was silent, except that the tobacco was burning in his pipe with some faint noises.

It was so quiet that one could have heard a pin drop.

A long while later, the man finally spoke, "Fine. Now that you insist, I'll take you to meet his uncle. If he agrees, you can go check on your friend."

Natalia secretly sighed in relief.

She compressed her lips. After some hesitation, she still said, "Thanks."

The man didn't say anything. Yet, the look he gave her carried a trace of derision.