Chapter 14 - Mystical Words (2/2)

Right after Uncle Frank finished his greetings, aunt Emma hurriedly grasped this chance to talk with Jeremy.

But she had to stop in mid-speech abruptly because 'her mouth' had almost spilled out the words to remind Jeremy about his sorrowful past of losing his parents to the plane crash.

”I'm sorry... I didn't mean to hurt your feelings...” Said apologetically, aunt Emma.

Hearing that Charlotte, Frank, and Suzan shook their heads from side to side at Emma, who had almost slipped her own tongue.

”It's okay. I'm doing fine now. All of my wounds have already been healed thanks to your 'lovely' daughter completely.”

Nevertheless, Jeremy answered back with his usual easygoing smile to alleviate the sudden mood change within the room.

Anyhow, the 'past' Jeremy had already gotten used to Emma, whom she was just like Charlotte whenever she got a chance to talk; she would talk nonstop.

They were a pair of a chatterbox and also a heaven-sent duo made especially to annoy Jeremy.

Well, that didn't mean the 'present' Jeremy would not feel annoyed by her talkative personality. He was a former sage, after all. Nobody had talked to him like a machine gun for a long time.

Even though he felt quite a bit annoyed by their incessant speech, still, it was not a big deal after all, and they didn't harbor any ill intention towards him. So, he chose to endure it and played along with the flows.

But in contrary to the annoyed Jeremy. After hearing those words from him, Charlotte, who had kept quiet all this time, suddenly felt a jolt on her entire body like electricity was running through her body.

Then her face and ears were getting redder and redder.

'Did Jeremy just compliment me? OMG!!'

Never in her wildest dream would she think that Jeremy would compliment her.

However, unbeknownst to her, Jeremy's purpose of saying those words was to alleviate the moods, not flirt with her.

Not caring about Charlotte, who was fiddling her hair with a reddened face, Jeremy turned his head to aunt Suzan, and then he nodded his head with a warm smile towards her as a sign of greeting.

”Hello, aunt Suzan. I believe that this is our first time meeting with one another. It's nice to meet you.”

”Yes, it is, but I've heard about you from my niece more than a hundred times already. Anyway, it's nice to meet you too.”

Hearing Jeremy's greetings, Suzan greeted him back with a warm and beautiful smile plastered on her lips. If any Average Joe saw her smile right now, they would be captivated immediately by her charming behaviors.

'Wow, she is as beautiful as a Hollywood star. According to Charlotte's words, she is also a businesswoman like Charlotte's father and mother, if I do not remember wrong. She lives in a different state and is currently managing many businesses there. She is also sin...'

”Ahem...”

”Jeremy, may I know the purpose of our visit here? I think something important or urgent might be going on right now, for our lovely daughter to be very hell-bent on bringing us here.”

When Jeremy was thinking to himself, he was suddenly interrupted by Charlotte's father, Frank.

Currently, Frank was having a curious look written on his face. That's why he decided to cut to the main topic right after they had finished greeting one another.

The other two adults were also the same; they were waiting for Jeremy's reasons for inviting them here.

After all, they were a businessman and businesswomen. They had plenty of things to do and manage. Every passing second and minute meant that they were losing many opportunities to make money.

If it was not for their beloved and doted daughter, who persisted them to come no matter what, they wouldn't care to waste their precious money-making time at all.

Their time meant money and gold...

*Sigh*

Jeremy could only sigh after he saw the behaviors of the three people like that.

To tell the truth, there was nothing wrong with them being impatient because they didn't know that everything was going to change soon.

Furthermore, he knew well that they also had many things to do.

Even right now, Suzan was typing her phone messages nonstop, and it must be about business that she had suddenly left behind at the other state.

Concurrently, Emma was smiling bitterly when she heard her husband's earlier words. Meanwhile, Charlotte was still fiddling with her beautiful blonde, grey hair with blushing cheeks.

It seemed like she really felt shy...

So, instead of answering them, he decided to say the words that he had been saying a total of 6 times already within the past five days.

Those words were miraculous and mystical words that could convince even a crying baby into stopping its crying, or they could convince even an insecure girl to feel that she was pretty like an angel.

Those words were that good, and Jeremy had already tested them firsthand so many times.

In addition, this time would be the 7th time that he would say those words.

And they were...

”Do you believe in magic?”

Jeremy lightly smiled and said with a hint of professionalism.

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[A/N: For enumeration, Jeremy had said it two times when the trio visited him five days ago. Then two more times for Owen's two batches of family members. Lastly, two more times for Charlotte's previous two batches. This time is the 7th.]