396 The Failure of the Battered-Body Trick

When the pointer on the wall reached a point, there was a slight sound of opening the door on the second floor.

Roy saw the lord lying on the sofa, looking asleep.

But the sofa was too short, and the lord's luxurious legs could be pitifully laid on the ground; the sofa was too narrow, and his broad body huddled there, so long as he was touched, he would fall down immediately, looking very poor.

Roy covered his face. There were so many rooms to sleep at home, the lord did pretend to be poor.

It was a shame.

At the late stage of Bell’s pregnancy, she got up frequently at night, every two hours. Charles counted it accurately.

But tonight, she wouldn’t just get up at night.

Charles closed his eyes, but every action of Bella clearly flashed in his mind.

When he saw that Bella still went to the third floor, Charles sighed silently. She did really go to get the box.

Tonight's Bella was too emotional. He could see that she was nervous about their child and worried about Nick's existence. But he couldn’t easily break his promise, let alone his father was dead, even if he wanted to repent, he couldn’t get his father's consent.

He just deliberately ignored Bella’s catching the golden box, which didn’t mean that he destroyed his promise.

To his father's promise and his wife, he had to choose this compromise.

It was natural that Bella could enter and leave Charles's study at will now. People in the dark didn’t dare to stop her when they saw her.

She took a deep breath before she found the safe mentioned by Charles.

The secret was inside. Her son's amulet was inside.

Tonight, she did not sleep at all. She tossed and turned in the middle of the night, feeling that she still couldn’t listen to Charles's words. She must have something to stop Nick in case.

The password of the safe had not been changed. It seemed that Charles had not changed the password deliberately because she knew it. This was the trust of her.

Bella hesitated. Charles should have changed his password if he had been on guard against her, but he did... keep the original password all the time.

She still held out the exquisite gold box with neat pearls of the same size and gold on all sides, which made people want to steal just by looking at the box.

Bella put the box on the table and locked it. As long as she opened it, she could know the big secret that Charles wanted to keep.

But she didn't. She hesitated.

Without changing the password, Charles's trust calmed her down.

What had happened in the past year had helped her grow up rapidly, transforming her from a little girl into a woman who could stand alone.

Her relationship with Charles was not easy to keep till now, they had separated for several times because of distrust.

Now Charles trusts her, but she... should she destroy it?

Bella took a deep breath, looking down at her belly, and asked softly, "Bryant, do we have to trust your dad? Can we believe he can protect you, is it okay?

She talked to herself, and struggled. She knew that she should have given Charles more trust, but she was afraid in case...

The feeling of separating from the loved ones and living in other people’s home with special identities, she feared that her children would become the second herself.

The... second...

Bella’s brain suddenly flashed a bright light, Charles just said that "He will not let the fourth person know".

Why was it the fourth, not the third...

This indicated that there was a third person present at that time, who was that person?!

Bella’s face immediately delighted, as long as she found the fourth man, everything would be fine. In that way, she would not fail Charles's trust, but also could unlock Nick's secret.

And how to make that person open his mouth...

Bella raised her mouth, she would naturally have a way.

When Bella put the box back to the safe intact, Charles relieved silently, and understood that she must have understood what he had said at that time.

He mourned silently, then continued to pretend to sleep with his eyes closed.

Bella was eager to steal the box before, she did not notice that Charles was still sleeping in the living room. At this moment, she stood on the stairs and saw Charles huddled on the sofa in the hall, she felt somehow guilty.

The sofa was double, sitting three people was crowding, Charles side body was lying on it, his legs were mostly hanging outside the sofa, his slender arms were in front of the chest, which made him look very hard.

She sighed, he was really, why didn’t he find a room to sleep? How could he really sleep in the living room just because she asked him to do so.

But the couples in the TV always said like this when they had quarrels, "Don't sleep with me tonight, go to the living room!"

Bella’s body had already been a bit heavy, walking from upstairs to downstairs took a lot of efforts, Charles wished he could go directly to hold her, put her in front of him, let her quickly take care of himself, bring him back to the bedroom.

However, the fact was that Bella really came in front of Charles, but she did not wake him up as he expected, but called a bodyguard in the dark, letting them carefully move over a sofa, placing it under his long legs, so that he would not suffer from hanging, and let people take a mattress over his body.

Then... she left.

Of course, the bodyguard had already seen the scene of Charles pretending to sleep before, and felt it necessary to help the lord. Then he said, "The lady, how about letting the lord go back to his room and sleep?"

Charles silently remembered the bodyguard and decided to reward him.

But Bella replied, "Don’t bother, just let him sleep here. He will feel uncomfortable if we wake him up." She said thoughtfully, "He hasn't slept well these days, it’s not easy that he falls asleep now, let him sleep more."

Charles's heart was shouting, he hadn't slept yet.

The bodyguard also felt hard. He originally talked little. Now he really didn't know what to say.

He looked at Charles silently and made the final struggle for the lord. "It's cold at night. If the lord gets a cold, and infect the lady, will it be not good to the little master?"

Charles was a little excited. This bodyguard was very clever. His son was the treasure for Bella. She would certainly agree with that if he mentioned this point.

However...

Bella said. "The room is heated enough, and he won't be frozen. Moreover, Elsa's medication for cold is very effective. He will be fine." She raised her finger to her lips and shushed softly, whispering, "Don't talk, let him rest."

Then she left.

Charles was shocked, so she had gone? That was it?

The bodyguard quietly retreated to the shadows, and Roy, at a corner on the third floor, looked down at the scene just happened and almost laughed.

He didn’t expect that Bella was such kind of lady.

The lord was so poor that his Battered-Body Trick failed.

As soon as Bella left, Charles stood up. He had just kept that posture for a long time and he almost stiffened.

He paced anxiously back and forth in the living room.

These days he had been sleeping with Bella in his arms. How could he possibly sleep without her now?

He must go back to the room to sleep tonight!

The lord had boosted his morale. Now he could only use that way.