Chapter 368 - Nicolaes Suspicion (1/2)

”Well, let's go to campus now, I want to immediately find my phone-watch ...” Aleksis said. She quickly prepared to take her bag and wore her shoes and then bid goodbye to Lauriel. Nicolae followed behind her.

”You can just buy a new phone with the same privacy settings as your old one, right?” Nicolae asked curiously as he walked around Aleksis who had pressed the elevator door button. ”If you buy it online now, you will get it in an hour. All your contacts and lost data can be recovered. I can help with that ...”

”It's okay ... I don't like to be wasteful and buy new things if I still have my old one ...” Aleksis answered casually.

She actually didn't need her phone-watch back. She only needed the connecting chip to Alaric. She didn't care about any other contacts ... she just needed to contact Alaric.

But of course, she wouldn't let Nicolae know that.

”Why is it wasteful? Do you know the value of the entire Schneider Group's wealth?” Nicolae asked her in confusion. Buying one of the most sophisticated mobile phones was for the Schneiders the same as buying a cheap candy.

Aleksis did not reply. Finally, Nicolae just shrugged and followed the girl without saying anything more. They went down to the basement where Carl and Sascha were waiting for them in a bulletproof Mercedes.

They did not want to take any chances at all; this time they would take their young miss anywhere she wanted to go with extra security. Their attitude was exactly like when the special forces soldiers would advance to the battlefield. If Aleksis wasn't feeling upset about losing her phone-watch, she might even be amused by her bodyguards' behavior.

”We can use my car ...” Nicolae said, pulling out his keys.

”We  can't. There is too much blood in your car. Yesterday, I asked the staff to take it to the car salon,” Aleksis answered. ”Carl and Sascha can take us.”

”Uhm ... okay.” Nicolae put the keys back in his pocket and walked toward the Mercedes. Carl quickly opened the door for them and after the two sat down nicely in the back seat, he closed the door and sat next to Sascha who would be driving.

”Miss, we are very worried about what had happened to Miss yesterday,” Carl said worriedly. ”As per your orders, we kept our distance because you had those two other guards. We didn't expect that yesterday they didn't work well enough when Miss was almost kidnapped. Where were the two bodyguards sent by your boyfriend? Why didn't they help you?”

BAM!

”Boyfriend?” Nicolae muttered to himself when he heard Carl's words. He then turned to Aleksis who was still feeling upset and did not hear at all what the bodyguard just said.

”Uhmm ... What did you say, Carl?” Aleksis asked him with half-closed eyes and a mind that was not properly attached to her body.

”Carl asked you where the bodyguards that were sent by boyfriend were.” Nicolae answered Aleksis' question. He looked at her with a complicated look, ”Do you have a boyfriend?”

OUCH!