True Fated Marriage (Grace and Heinz)

Chapter 2120

"Understood!" Sylvia nodded.

She of course understood that love and feelings couldn't be forced.

"Do you have any more questions?" Claudia wanted to clear all of Sylvia's doubts at once, so that she wouldn't ask her about it again.

"No," Sylvia answered. "Come on, let's go."

"Now that you're done asking questions, actually I do have something to say before I leave." Claudia thought it would be better to make things clear to Sylvia.

"I'm all ears," Sylvia said.

"First things first, you're not allowed to set me up with your uncle," Claudia said seriously.

Sylvia nodded, looking stunned. "You already made that crystal clear, so wouldn't I be pretty dumb if I keep at it?"

"Secondly, I'm quite serious about Sebastian." Claudia's expression was stern. "So, please keep an eye on him for me and fill me in on his likes, dislikes, habits and hobbies." "Okay, no problem at all." Sylvia nodded.

"Good." Claudia smiled and said, "In return, I will also tell you what Kendrix does everyday."

Sylvia grinned brightly at that.

She wanted to know all she could about Kendrix, and she would ask Claudia if Claudia didn't volunteer the information.

After that, they set off.

Lowell was already waiting in the car.

Lowell, ever the gentleman, got off the car and opened the door for them to the backseat once he saw them coming out. He meant what he said about being their chauffeur.

"Thank you." Claudia smiled and got into the car.

"You're welcome." Lowell grinned while helping them get into the car, and closed the door for them.

"If s all right, Uncle. I can do it myself." Sylvia waved dismissively at Lowell as she got in the car and closed the door herself.

After that, they drove away from the Jones family's house.

"Have you guys decided where we're going today?" Lowell glanced at the girls sitting at the back as he drove.

"Actually, I'm rather familiar with Northern City as my cousin and I grew up here. Let's go to my old stomping grounds, shall we?" Claudia smiled. "Oh, really?" Lowell was a little surprised. "Are you from Northern City?"

"Not really. My family isn't from around here, but I was born here. I lived in Northern City for about a decade," Claudia replied.

Lowell nodded. "I see. Where did you usually frequent, Miss Loris?"Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

"A church nearby, actually." Claudia thought for a moment before she showed him an address. "How about we head there for the first stop? I would like to say a prayer."

"A church?" Sylvia was a little shocked. "Wow, I never thought you and Mr. Trevino were so religious when you were a kid." "There's a lot you don't know about us. I liked the sculptures inside the church as they look very lifelike," Claudia replied.

"I wasn't expecting you to like something like this." Sylvia shrugged. "I'm really mind blown."

Lowell was silent. Perhaps the church was a good place as any to go.

He felt like he'd been having a serious bout of bad luck lately, so perhaps saying some prayers would clear him of his crappy luck.

Soon, the car arrived at the church. All three of them disembarked, and Lowell led them to the entrance.

Meanwhile, Sylvia and Claudia followed behind him.

Claudia looked at the huge church doors and said, "It's been 12 years, but it still looks exactly the same. It must have been refurbished, right?"

"I don't know. It's my first time here. Frankly, I never thought I'd actually come here." Sylvia chuckled.

"True. I'm sure all you went to in the past were amusement parks, right?" Claudia teased.

Sylvia was only 16 then, so she must have frequented amusement parks when she was younger.

Sylvia rolled her eyes at Claudia's correct assumption. "Well, you're not wrong."

"Isn't that a little childish?"

"Perhaps, but I love the roller-coasters. They're so thrilling."

"It must be thrilling, but not as thrilling as trying to woo my cousin, right?"

Sylvia paused for a moment before she burst into laughter. "You're right!"

Claudia gave her an exasperated look.

"You haven't told me things about Mr. Trevino

when he was a child." Sylvia didn't forget to fish information out of Claudia. "Why don't we start from here? Tell me what he was doing here." "What was Kendrix doing here?" Claudia thought for a while, "You'll never guess what he was up to here, though." Claudia chuckled.

"Well, I'm sure he wasn't here to be a priest, right?" Sylvia asked.

Claudia shook her head. "Um, of course not. He did his homework here actually back then."

Sylvia was shocked. "Homework? Why didn't he just do it at home?"

"At that time, he was the only one at home. Kendrix was a bit of scaredy cat as a child, so perhaps he always sought refuge here as he didn't want to be home alone. Also, there are a lot of chairs and tables set up in the yard, so he could sit beneath the trees and do his homework."

Sylvia didn't expect to hear that.

"So, Mr. Trevino was a scaredy-cat when he was younger?" Sylvia was taken aback at the revelation.

As Sylvia knew that Kendrix was a cop, he'd worked on a lot of chilling cases. Some of them involved mangled and mutilated bodies as well.

She would believe it if Claudia told her about someone else being a scaredy cat, but she couldn't believe that Kendrix was a timid child.

"You look very surprised. I'm sure you don't believe me, huh?"

"Yeah." Sylvia nodded. "He's a cop. How could he be timid?"

"Well, that just means that we would change drastically after something serious happen to us," Claudia said.

"What do you mean?" Sylvia's heart started to race, and she became a little nervous suddenly. "Was it something scary?"

"Yeah." Claudia nodded.

"What happened?"

"Do you know that Kendrix is an orphan?" Claudia asked again.

Sylvia paused and shook her head.

"His parents were murdered, and Kendrix was the sole survivor. After that happened, he was no longer afraid of being home alone," Claudia said.

Sylvia's face paled instantly.

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She felt as if a knife was twisting inside her chest, and it hurt a lot.

Sylvia didn't expect Kendrix's past to be so horrible.

Claudia's brief story was enough to illustrate just how much Kendrix had gone through back then.

How much misery had he suffered?

"Don't ask about this if Kendrix

doesn't tell you on his own." Claudia

reminded Sylvia sternly. "If he tells you about this voluntarily, it means that he's already let you in."