Chapter 197 - Betty (1/2)

“It’s okay. We’ve got nothing to do anyway. Let us help you,” said Zhang Heng.

Seth forced a smile when he heard Zhang Heng had offered to help.

“What’s going on? Seth, do we have guests?”

“It’s Sean and… erm… two more friends.”

“Aren’t you going to invite them in?”

“Oh… I almost forgot! My house is kind of messy now, and I hope you guys won’t mind.”

Seeing that he was about to have visitors, Seth moved the chairs back into the house. Zhang Heng, Anne, and Sean followed him from behind.

“Tracy, go make our guests some coffee, will you?”

Seth was talking to a voluptuous lady. This should be the woman that Seth married not too long ago. Tracy nodded and headed into the kitchen. After a short while, she talked to Seth again.

“Seth, where are the coffee beans that Beth gave us?”

“Ah! I know where they are. Let me go get them.”

As he talked to Tracy, Seth went upstairs. Half a minute later, Tracy emerged from the kitchen with a plate of fruit in her hands.

“I’m so sorry. Seth kept away all the utensils and there are only some fruits left in the kitchen,” said Tracy.

Zhang Heng took the plate of fruit and thanked Tracy and started a conversation with her. Talkative by nature, she answered every question he asked with no misgivings. Obviously, she wasn’t the cautious type. When he was done talking, he knew then that Seth didn’t tell her anything about the carrack. It also seemed that she knew nothing about what happened last night.

Zhang Heng looked at Anne. Both of them knew that Seth was the person that they were looking for. They decided that it was time to confront him once he came down.

“What’s taking him so long? All he needs to do is to get the coffee beans,” said Sean while looking at the stairs.

“Let me go get him,” replied an embarra.s.sed Tracy.

She proceeded to the storeroom beside them.

“Ahem… Seth is upstairs,” Sean reminded Tracy.

“Huh? But the first floor is empty. There’s n.o.body there.”

Immediately, Zhang Heng ran upstairs and found out that there was indeed no one there. All he saw was an open window. Through the window, he spotted Seth running away from his house as fast as his legs could carry him. He even looked back a few times!