Chapter 208 - Jealous For Nothing

"By the way, you've been here for one week now. Have you seen Mary?" J said after a while. She can't help but noticed Noah's blushed face.

"Do you think I didn't know what's happening here in Lodgepole Estate?"

"Ah... about that... Miss J..." Noah seemed to be out for words.

"Relax," J said patting his shoulder with a small smile. "I don't have the right to meddle with my people's personal life. It was Mrs. Potters who keeps on reporting me some unnecessary things."

Jacob was stunned. So, Noah has a thing with Mary, Mrs. Potters's niece. He was jealous for nothing. Jacob shakes his head at that thought. Which J noticed, so she gave him a meaningful look. Jacob shrugged his shoulders.

After a while, the old man came back holding two baskets and handed them over to Miss J and Jacob.

"Noah, please get the ladder, I think those oranges up there are sweeter than these ones." the old man said pointing at the oranges that are reachable. Noah quickly obliged.

J walked towards a tree and reach for orange and feel for its firmness and smoothness. She gently twists the orange until the stem detaches from the tree. She weighed it in her palms. The riper the oranges the heavier it gets. She peeled it and take a segment and placed it in her mouth. "Mmm... this one is already sweet," J said taking another segment and place it in Jacob's mouth.

"Here, have a taste." Jacob opened his mouth and relish the taste of the orange. J looked at Jacob with anticipation which Jacob finds cute. He smiled at her and said, "You're right. It's sweet."

Noah came with an A ladder on its shoulder. After a moment, Noah climbed up the ladder and grasps an orange near the top of the tree and handed it to J. J smelled it then peeled it. She took a segment and put it in her mouth, then took another and put it in Jacob's mouth.

With a smile, she turned her head to the old man. "You're right Mr. Bai. These were sweeter. What do you think?" She turned to ask Jacob who is still relishing the taste of the orange segment that J gave him. He nodded in agreement. Mr. Bai, after all, spent most of his life in the orchard, so with by just the look of it, he knew which is sweeter.

"Please get me more of it, we'll take some to Martha's Home tomorrow and some back in Lotus City," J said to Noah.

After almost two hours of harvesting oranges and walking around the orchard with Mr. Bai and Noah, Jacob and J went back to the mansion on a Hauler filled with baskets of oranges.

"I see your afternoon is well spent." Mrs. Potters greeted them. "I'll have Mary prepare dinner."

"Thank you."

"I'll have someone take these oranges to Martha's Homes and Evergreen Villa tomorrow morning," Jacob said while looking at Hauler filled with baskets of oranges. "It will definitely not going to fit in your car. Look at these large baskets. That's why I'd rather have an SUV." Jacob added, thinking back on the first time the went to Miss Eve's, J filled his bulletproofed SUV with a lot of stuff to bring to the orphans.

J chuckled.

Jacob looked at her with fondness. He tousled her hair before pulling her into his embrace. "It's been a long day," Jacob muttered. "Are you tired?"

J shook her head as she circled her arms in Jacob's waist.