Chapter 186 - You can work for me (1/2)

Caspar and Finland hurriedly finished their activities before leaving the study to take Aleksis from Kara and admire the drawings she made.

The little one drew lots of worms and leaves on her drawing paper and proudly blurted out the names of each of these animals, making her parents laugh.

”For a two-year-old child, her pictures are great...” commented Caspar. ”She takes after my artistic talent...”

Finland looked at Caspar and shook her head with a faint smile on her lips. Apparently, this husband of hers still liked to compliment himself.

”I didn't know you had artistic talents...” she said. Finland immediately remembered that Caspar intended to enroll at an art school in Hong Kong three years ago when he decided to take on a new identity. She did not know that Caspar really could paint.

”Oh... I never showed it to you, huh? I haven't painted for the past few years, but I have a gallery in Singapore. I built it on the month we first met, after I bought the Continental Hotel. I've painted for hundreds of years. I first met Katia at my painting exhibition,” Caspar explained.

Finland remembered that Katia was an artist and Finland was even in charge of the details of Katia's exhibition gallery 3 years ago in Singapore. She did not know that Caspar and Katia shared the same artistic interests and met through paintings.

Thinking of that evil woman made her heart feel very painful.

Caspar was thinking the same thing and he regretted mentioning Katia's name in their conversation. He wanted to distract Finland from their problems and keep her calm and happy while they waited for the results of The Wolf Pack and Lauriel's missions.

”Three days from now, we will definitely have our news. Meanwhile, I will not stay quiet either. I will hit the Meier family business so that Alexei will be struggling and complacent,” Caspar said later. ”I'll be busy all day tomorrow taking care of a lot of things. You can take Aleksis on a trip to town with Kara and Jadeith if you're bored.”

Finland nodded. Her cellphone suddenly rang, and she saw a video call from Lauriel.

”Take it, that must be important...” Caspar said. Finland received the call and immediately saw Lauriel's handsome face on the screen. His eyes were squinted due to sunlight that hit his face.

”Hey, how are you?” Lauriel asked.

”Uhm... fine. Where are you now?” Finland asked.

”I just arrived in Manaus. While I still have internet connection, I want to talk to Aleksis and ask how she is doing. Soon, I will go into the jungle to get my ingredients for the potions. I won't have any connection for 3 days,” Lauriel answered.

”Oh... Aleksis is fine, she took a walk to the lake and then drew some worms and leaves. Let her show you the results of her drawing...” Finland smiled as she pointed her cellphone at Aleksis.

”Ahh... worms again?” Lauriel sounded amused. He then talked with Aleksis for a few minutes and asked for the names of the worms in the picture, then praised her tidy hair - not messy as usual - and her nice drawings, while Caspar and Finland looked at the scene with complicated feelings.

Lauriel was practically a father figure for Aleksis during the first two years of her life and the two were very close. Caspar was a little jealous seeing his daughter's closeness to Lauriel, but he could only swallow his feelings, since he didn't want to cause new problems.

He knew that he was indebted to Lauriel, who had taken care of his family during their separation.

After Lauriel was satisfied chatting with Aleksis, he talked to Caspar and listened to the results of the meeting with the Wolf Pack.

”I will come to London as soon as possible to meet Marion and set up a plan to administer the poison to Katia. I will need her expertise to infiltrate and poison that evil woman...” Lauriel thought for a moment, ”I think I can come in a week.”

Caspar suddenly remembered Marion's surprised face when she heard that Lauriel was going to make the Medusa poison and its antidote. He felt that there was something odd about the girl's expression and assumed that it wasn't very simple to formulate the antidote for Medusa.

”Lauriel... about the antidote for Medusa... You said you would only take that road if you had to,” Caspar swallowed hard and tried to arrange his question well. ”Is the antidote very difficult to make?”

Lauriel was silent for a few seconds and finally answered, ”Yes.”