"Miss Vanderbilt, the phone in your bag keeps ringing. Is there something important going on?"
Leila attentively noticed Arabella Vanderbilt's perplexity and tactfully shifted the topic.
Hearing this, Arabella Vanderbilt's embarrassed expression gradually relaxed.
"Oh, let me check."
She naturally knew who the call was from, it's just that Leila, the housekeeper, had graciously given her an out.
Having put it off until now, she really didn't know to what extent the Vanderbilt family would be enraged.
But she was about to visit the Vanderbilt home soon, so...
She looked up at Joel Russo, standing opposite her, a trace of melancholy flickering across her face.
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After dinner, having declined Grandma's enthusiastic invitation to stay the night, Arabella Vanderbilt left with Joel Russo.
"Do you have something you want to say to me?"
Just as they stepped out the door, Joel Russo's deep voice rose.
Arabella Vanderbilt paused, "Joel, lend me a car first."