25 Car plate numbers (2/2)

Thinking about it, Renae hadn't been to his house yet. She was a little curious to see how big it was since he was rich. In the past, they had always hung out outside or at her house, but never Matthew's.

The house did not disappoint. Renae stared in awe as the gates of the Italian styled mansion before her opened up. ”Oh my...” Renae was so starstruck that she didn't even finish her sentence. Matthew chuckled. ”Fret not, my parents aren't snobs so they won't be judging you the whole time,” Matthew said. Renae looked at him a little confused. ”Did you forget? I know your parents.” Hearing this, he laughed.

Matthew parked his car and two butlers quickly opened their car doors for them. Matthew casually got out, meanwhile, Renae was flustered and was a little shocked when the butler opened her door for her. Seeing this, Matthew was once again, in a fit of laughter. The butlers and maids had never seen Matthew bring a girl home before! Was this his girlfriend? They all secretly wondered.

”Welcome, Miss...?” ”You can just call me Renae,” Renae hastily replied. ”Miss Renae, young master Matthew, right this way.” To that butler, the name 'Renae' sounded very familiar. Where did they hear that before?

The two guards by the double-door opened it for them as they greeted them the same way the butler did. They already knew Renae's name, word had spread fast throughout the workers at the mansion.

Matthew knew that Renae was uncomfortable with such formality, so he led her straight to his study room instead of giving her a tour.

”Study room? I wanted to see your room,” Renae pouted. ”I... I don't think it would be erm... appropriate for you to just enter a boy's room so easily...” Matthew said, this time it was his turn to be uncomfortable. Renae didn't back down, but instead teased, ”What? You think something will happen between the two of us? Being a coward? Hmm?” She giggled. Matthew took that as a challenge and replied, ”What? Of course not. Fine then, let's head to my room. Don't complain if I pounce on you then!”

Hearing this, Renae's face paled. She was just teasing, she didn't think Matthew would take it literally! He wasn't this daring when he was younger!

They entered Matthew's room and Renae's eyes gave the room a quick scan. She put down her bag on the desk by his bed. ”The toilet is there if you need to go. Wait, let me ask for another chair,” Matthew said. ”You can sit first, I'll sit on the bed for the time being,” he added after he asked for the chair.

Renae nodded and pulled out the notebook from before. ”I was thinking about a lot of things last night. And...” Renae was interrupted by the sound of the door opening. A butler entered pushing a big black comfy office chair with him as he did. ”Here, young master,” he said politely. Matthew thanked the butler and switched over to the office chair.

”Continue.”

”So look, the first car plate number I have here is...” she explained everything she had found last night to Matthew. After Renae finished, the cogs in Matthew's brain were moving none stop. ”Since you told me all of this, I'm guessing your plan is to head to the shops of the car that was tailing us and the one which they edited my car's one to be?” He asked. ”Yes! My plan exactly,” Renae exclaimed. She had yet to tell Matthew about how his edited car plate number might be the same as Kaiden's car one.

”I don't mind this method, but it's going to take very long. How about this, I can ask my parents for help on this, they have connections so it's definitely going to help us. I'm sure they'd be willing to help too, since our family name was used,” Matthew suggested. Renae agreed with it. ”I'll ask them privately. They can probably contact the different car shops in Singapore and send them the car plate numbers.”

”Okay! I can't thank you enough... If you didn't help, it'd probably take me a long time to do this,” Renae said as she smiled cheerily at Matthew. ”No problem, I would've helped you no matter the situation. The same applies in the future. It's getting pretty late, how about we continue this tomorrow?” Matthew suggested. He added, ”I'll drive you back.”

”Okay, but I think you're going to attract too much attention with your Cabriolet...” Renae said as she packed up. ”Hmm... I have a Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe. It's the cheapest one I have. I bought it for about $114k.” Renae almost cracked up laughing. ”Fine... but how does it look? Not too eye catching right?” Renae said. They walked down to the car park. ”Yep, it looks pretty average but still beautiful,” he replied.

”My Mercedes-AMG GT Coupe keys please,” Matthew asked a maid swiftly. The maid nodded and rushed to get the keys.

They both got into the car and they were off.