Seeing how keen Nina was on doing the task, Maya immediately agreed to do it too. “Mommy, I’ll do it together with Nina.”
Nicole was touched by the sweet gesture of her daughters.
“Great! Mommy will assign this important and glorious task to the two of you then!”
Maya took it very seriously as that was the first time she had been assigned such a significant task by Nicole. Without further ado, she immediately went to look for Yoda and start spying on him.
At first, Nicole intended to go with the girls so that she could react as soon as they found anything fishy.
Yet, one of Levant’s underlings came and told her to meet him as he had something important to discuss with her. In response, Nicole let out a sign in resignation.
Maya and Nina stared at her with determination shone in their eyes. “Mommy, we can handle this on our own!”
“Please be careful and just call me if there’s any issue.”
“Don’t worry about us, Mommy!”
After Nicole were off to Levant’s room, Nina and Maya went into action right away.
Maya started tiptoeing her way to Yoda’s room in a surreptitious manner.
Seeing how sneaky she looked, Nina strode off to keep up with her and grabbed her shoulder.
Her touch took Maya by surprise. Frightened, Maya whirled around and glared at her. “What’re you doing?”
Nina is such a troublemaker. Why is she disturbing me when I have to hurry up to go spy on Daddy!
“How you behave is going to expose our mission! Daddy will surely get suspicious if he sees you like this!”
Maya was left stumped.
Eh?
Fiddling with her chubby fingers, Maya started seeing sense in what Nina just said.
“Follow me,” Nina ordered.
One after another, the two girls made their way to Yoda’s room excitedly.
When they finally arrived at their destination, Nina gestured at Maya for her to keep quiet. Then, they squatted down and pressed their ears against the door.
Coincidentally, John happened to be having a discussion with Yoda on how to make Yoda be the hero who saved Daphne, the damsel in distress.
“If someone who saved her life happens to be in need of an acupuncture treatment, do you think she would seek help from her acupuncture master?”
John pondered over the question before answering, “Generally speaking, all normal people wouldn’t hesitate to do that. However, can we judge someone like Daphne by the standard of normal people?”
Yoda flashed him a sly smirk. “I bet she’s just as emotional as all human beings. As long as we make sure everything looks real enough, I’m sure she would feel the urge to approach her master.”
Seems like we have to hope that she still has a shred of conscience in her, and she’s a person who knows how to appreciate someone else’s kindness then.
But…
John eyed Yoda worryingly. “Mr. Seet, what if gratitude is not the only thing she develops for you? What if she ends up lusting after you too?”
After all, there were many ladies out there who were swooning over Evan’s good looks.
In fact, those girls were not to be blame for falling in love with him as very few girls in the world could resist the attraction of his flawless and handsome face.
Evan did not take what John said seriously.
In Daphne’s impression, he was only a bodyguard of the estate. For a gold digger like her, what she yearned for was the position of the duchess and Levant was the man she needed in order to get what she wanted. How would she be interested in a humble and nameless bodyguard like him?
Yoda looked up at John and said, “You’re overthinking.”
John kept his eyes downcast, hoping that his concern was really unnecessary.
If Daphne really ended up falling in love with Evan, he would have a hard time trying to explain it to Nicole.
“Mr. Seet, when should we carry out the plan then?”
“We should do it at night, with less people watching us. The fewer the people who gets to see my face, the better.”
After completing this mission, he would continue to appear as Yoda, who was Nicole’s bodyguard.
“I’ll do the preparation now!”
Hearing that John was about to leave the room, Nina immediately dragged Maya away to a stone table behind which they crouched down and hid.
They watched John leaving the room and walking further away. Then, they started a discussion in whispers.
“What did you hear just now?” Nina asked Maya.
Blinking her large eyes, Maya tried hard to recall their conversation. However, she only managed to catch a few snatches of their conversation as it contained too many information which sounded too convoluted for her comprehension.
“I heard they mentioned Daphne and something about being emotional. Also, they talked about appreciating kindness and lust.”
Nina widened her eyes in surprise, quite impressed by Maya’s memory.
“What did you hear then?” Maya threw the question back at her.
Nina took some time to sort out the information she managed to collect. Together with the information Maya contributed, she formed a conclusion.
“I heard them saying that there was something wrong with Daphne. So, Daddy and John agreed to put on an act in front of her to make her appreciate Daddy’s help and lust after him. Also, John said he was going to make the arrangement so that Daddy could meet her at night without wearing the mask.”
