Chapter 152 - Is He Jealous?

On the other hand, James's expression shifted from one after another, as soon as he heard the familiar voice of that woman, first in disbelief, then in shock, and finally, in anger.

He was a hundred percent sure. He knew that voice. He knew that caller.

"Chlarice..." James mumbled through his gritted teeth.

After confirming who the mastermind was, they hung up the phone without responding to Chlarice's inquiry.

A tinge of anger appeared on James's face but he quickly concealed the emotion. Elle saw it but she did not dwell on it further.

She did not know what kind of relationship James and Chlarice had but she decided not to confront him.

"Elle let's leave this place right now. Don't worry the police are coming. I know you were shocked after what happened here, so let me handle this. Okay?"

James volunteered to handle this thing. Since Elle was also planning to make Charles take in-charge of this, she just nodded at him in agreement.

"I think we should wait for the police to come and leave after we hand over these criminals to them," Elle suggested.

James agreed on her suggestion so they stayed and waited for the police to arrive.

Minutes later, James's right-hand man Spike arrived in the place.

The truth was, James already sent an emergency signal to Spike the moment they arrived at that house.

He had this small device with him hidden inside his pocket.  Once he pressed it, it would send an emergency signal along with his current location to his right-hand man.

He knew he was already coming to save them.

"Since my assistant is here, we can now leave. I will let him stay to watch over those criminals while waiting for the police to come." James said to Elle.

"Do you want me to drop you at your house?" James asked her since he also wanted to know where she was staying.

She did not mind about what James was planning. And she did not want to waste her precious time because of that insignificant woman.

She wanted to go home now and be with her beloved man. She was missing him already.

"Hmm, sure. Thanks. I will really appreciate that." Elle already informed Charles and Phantom regarding what happened.

They might be on their way also to this place. Charles informed her through a text message that they would pretend as police officers.

Charles wanted to punish those guys by himself after knowing that they planned to ruin the beautiful face of Elle. Phantom was also enraged.

Since the two men insisted, Elle just let them do whatever they wanted to those three men.

She knew Master Phantom and Charles would give them the taste of hell. Elle just smiled from that thought.

Those two men were really very protective of her even though they knew that she could handle things independently.

But still, they were there ready to back her up and give her support. They were dependable comrades, of course as her family as well.

While they were on the way to Elle's home which was also Erick's place, she was put in deep thought.

'Well... should I inform Erick about this incident or not?' She was contemplating whether to tell Erick or not.

'If I will tell him I am sure he will be worried about me but if I will not tell him, he might be upset once he learned about this incident to other people like James.'

'Hmm... I will decide once I get home.' She made a mental note about this.

James decided to start a conversation with her since he noticed that she was very silent. He was worried that Elle got a trauma because of this incident.

"Are you really okay?" He asked her. 

"Hmm... Sort of. But don't worry I can manage. By the way, thank you." Elle smiled at him faintly.

James laughed dryly "Thank you for what? I have not done anything." He still felt guilty.

"I want to thank you because I appreciate your sincere concerns about me. I think you are right."

"You are not that bad... aside from being arrogant and annoying... now I could see some positive sides of you." Elle let out a soft chuckle after saying that.

James was stunned in a moment. He was not used to Elle acting like this towards him. He noticed that she was not annoyed at him compared to before.

He was happy about that. He thought that his relationship with Elle had improved slightly.

"I am glad. Thank you for giving me a chance and now you are seeing the positive sides of me." James said to her cheerfully.

"By the way, if you need help just tell me. Besides, I still owe you one favor, for saving me." James added.

"Don't worry, I will tell you once I needed you to return that favor to me," Elle assured him.

Unknown to them, that for the coming days Elle would have to use that favor from James under the unfavorable circ.u.mstances.

Meanwhile, Erick was a little bored staying at home. He was not used to this set-up.

Even though the task force was updating him regularly with regards to their cases but still he missed working at the headquarters.

Only Elle could make his day complete in times like this. They just got separated for several hours and now he missed her already.

Elle promised him that she would go home early so he decided to wait for her at the balcony. He was looking forward to Elle's arrival.

'Elle, come home. I miss you so much.'

Minutes later, the woman he was waiting for arrived but she was not alone. He saw her alighted from a silver BMW car.

He stood up to approach her. Then he saw James who also got off his car. The moment the two men's gaze met, a look of surprise appeared on their faces.

They did not expect to see each other there.

"Thank you for dropping me," Elle said to James.

Elle's voice pulled both men from their moment of stupor.

"No problem." James simply said and smiled at her. Then he turned to look at Erick and gave him a nod as his simple greeting. Erick also returned his greeting with a nod.

Two men had different questions running in their minds right now.

James: 'Why Erick is here? Is Elle already living with Erick?'

Erick: 'Why she is with James? Why are they together?'

James immediately left since he still had something important to deal with.

On the other hand, Elle's face brightened up as soon as she saw her beloved man standing at the balcony waiting for her.

Her lips immediately curled up into a sweet smile however she noticed that the man in front of her had a serious and dark expression on his face.

This is not what she expected to see on her man's face who should welcome her with a warm and gentle smile.

''What's wrong with him?'' She mumbled to herself as she wondered why he looked unhappy.

Then a realization came to her. 'Wait... is he jealous? Is he jealous when he saw James and I together just a while ago?'