"I'm fine," said Lucia in a hoarse voice, after the nausea had passed. "You know I throw up easily."

"Well, we used to be there for you, and now..." Reynolds turned from worry to annoying, and stared at Spencer. Spencer reacted and took Lucia back into his arms. He looked at her carefully, as if he was concerned for her,

"I told you not to eat so much pastry. Maybe you ate too much."

Lucia glanced at Spencer and didn't say anything.

There was a moment of awkwardness. Spencer's apparent concern and Reynolds's concern for Lucia's safety, as they tried to snatch her from the middle.

Monty saw Lucia's dilemma and took her by the hand, leading her to him in a clever way, and, ignoring Reynolds and Spencer, saying,

"Lucia, we haven't talked in a long time. Do you remember that tutor at school? He..."

Reynolds and Spencer were stunned as Monty took Lucia away.

But it also helped to ease the awkwardness, and Spencer took the opportunity to say to Reynolds, "Mr. Brown, since Lucia is off catching up with Monty, I'm going to go spend some time with the other guests. Help yourself."

Reynolds glanced at Spencer without saying a word, and Spencer, without waiting for an answer, walked away.

While Spencer was away, Reynolds wasn't busy looking for Lucia and Monty, but took a look around the venue.

No Arthur?

Arthur was still standing in the corridor, but his attention was finally directed in another direction. Because the corridor was silent, he occasionally heard a noise above the floor. He was just boring and then quietly, along the stairs, went up and wanted to see if there was someone in the upper floor.

The banquet hall of the Dekee Hotel was on the fifteenth floor, and the rooftop was one floor up.

Arthur walked all the way to the roof and found that the door to the roof was indeed open. There should be someone inside.

He leaned over quietly, and as soon as he stood against the door, he heard voices of conversation coming from inside.

"Jack, it's your turn to prepare meals for tomorrow."

"OK, I'll do it tomorrow."

Arthur was bored. He thought that the two tourists might go out to the roof in the middle of the night to enjoy the cool and chat. Just as he was about to turn around to leave, the next conversation between the two stopped him.

"Otis says she's still weak. You should prepare some stew tomorrow. I hear it's good for pregnant women."

"There should be some in the restaurant outside, but it might take a little more time. Victor, it's your turn to be on duty at the office tomorrow. Don't be lazy."

"You're the one who likes to slack off, aren't you? I caught you napping the day before yesterday!"

"Nonsense. I was very serious about protecting her, but... I took a break when Spencer was afraid to bother her at work."

"We're fine. We're at the office during the day, and Daniel and Alvin are there at night to protect her. They're the ones who are really tired."

"Why don't we take turns in a few days so they don't run out of steam?"

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While two men named Jack and Victor were talking, Arthur walked into the rooftop door and asked coldly,

"Who do you said Otis wants you to protect?!"

For a moment, two black figures ran towards Arthur. The next second, two black muzzles had been aimed at his head.

"Wait! Wait!" Jack shouted as he recognized Arthur. "This is Otis's brother!"

Victor took a close look and, sure enough, it was Arthur. They quickly withdraw the guns, and Arthur saw the two of them clearly dressed.

Victor and Jack were wearing the same style of black clothes, and they had a bulletproof vest on the outside. Because it was summer and the weather was hot, and they were on a secret rooftop, they took off their jackets. Arthur could clearly see the gun-belted waistcoats under their arms, not to mention the pistols in their hands.

"Tut!" Jack with rougher disposition was discontented, "Otis's younger brother, how did you come up!"

What were they gonna say now?!

"Tell me..." Arthur's eyes reflected the light of the moon, dazzling, "My Brother asked you to protect who?!"

Spencer's party began to draw to a close around 10 p.m., and as more and more guests began to leave, Spencer got busy again, unable to keep Reynolds and Monty from talking to Lucia. Reynolds didn't say anything about Lucia going with him, but more about her health.

"Mr. Davies, I see that you and Ms. Webb didn't communicate much tonight. Did you have a falling out?" One of Spencer's drinking buddies teased him as they said goodbye. He even glanced meaningfully at Nia next to him.

Spencer, who had been angry all night, had only half of sanity, and replied without thinking,

"A woman gets cranky when she's pregnant, and besides, it's not good to spoil her all the time."

"What about this one?" said the man, who was on good terms with Spencer.

Spencer gave him a vague smile but didn't answer. His drinking partner seemed to understand something, so he gave him a congenial smile and left happily.

Spencer didn't know it, but because he said it out of spite, it was rumored by that man that when Lucia got pregnant, he was unhappy that she couldn't be with him, so he found another woman to replace her. The joke was that Spencer had been trying to maintain his image of a good man, but did not know that he had been described as a man who always changed his mind.

As the guests left, the hall became deserted, and the rest were friends of Spencer or Lucia. Reynolds, Monty, Otis, Eduard, Daphne hadn't left, and Lola had been awkward all night.

Ever since Arthur said he wanted to be alone, he hadn't come back. God knew how Lola spent the last two hours. She didn't know anyone, and she was afraid to go near Otis. She could only wander around the banquet hall, bored, and tasted almost all the cakes on the tables.

As the guests got fewer, Lola became more and more anxious. Just as she was about to find someone, Arthur returned.

"Arthur, where on earth have you been? I'm bored to death here alone." Lola quickly ran over as soon as she saw Arthur. She complained coquettishly.