Our Love Story: Hard to Guard Against the Sudden Love Strike

Chapter 551 - 523: Third Night Watch

Harrison glanced at the door again and then looked down to cut the lobster. As he cut, he grinned with a face full of admiration: "Men, as they get older, have their advantages too, in pursuing girls, they have all kinds of tricks. Even a shrewd and rational lawyer like Mrs. Forrester is caught up in them..."He was about to gossip with Gavin about how Simon Forrester managed to win over Sienna Thornton, but he stopped when he saw Simon and Sienna enter the room.

Simon and Sienna sat down with their usual expressions. After Simon took a sip of water, he asked casually, "Will you be going to the retrial that day?"

"Oh," Sienna replied, with a rather helpless tone, "I want to go, but Quentin might not be willing for me to do so."

"Otherwise, let me go instead."

Sienna’s eyes lit up when she heard, "Do you have the time?"

Simon looked towards Gavin, "Gavin, tell my wife whether I have the time."

Gavin smiled, "Yes, as long as Mrs. Forrester needs it, Chairman Forrester can find time no matter what."

Sitting beside them, Harrison quickly swallowed his lobster meat and asked, "Whose case is being retried?"

Simon shot him a glance, as if to say: I just told you to eat more and talk less, did you forget?

Harrison understood and kept silent, quietly eating.

Sienna laughed gracefully and said, "My uncle was wrongly imprisoned over twenty years ago, Rhonda is his attorney."

Harrison was shocked, "What? That means he wrongly spent over twenty years in jail?"

Sienna nodded.

Harrison asked again, "If the case is overturned this time, will there be a claim for state compensation?"

Sienna sighed, "There should be. He’s almost fifty now, with no ability to work, no offspring, and his health has deteriorated. Without compensation, it’s uncertain how he would spend his later years..."

Harrison sighed too, seeming very empathetic.

Simon didn’t want such a heavy topic to affect Sienna’s mood, as they were moving to their new home tomorrow. So he changed the subject by asking Harrison, "Is the moving company arranged?"

"It’s arranged."

"No need to come too early tomorrow, 10 AM in the morning."

Harrison was troubled, "But they’re paid by the hour, they start work at 9. If they come an hour late, they’ll be waiting there unpaid."

Beneath the table, Gavin nudged him with his foot. Harrison promptly stopped talking.

Simon then dropped his impatient look and started discussing other matters with Sienna.

After dinner, Simon and Sienna returned to their apartment upstairs while Harrison and Gavin went to the garage to get their cars.

When the elevator doors closed, Harrison asked, "Did you bump my foot to tell me to stop talking?"

Gavin, with his hands in his pockets, looked at the changing elevator numbers and replied indifferently, "After so many years with Chairman Forrester, you still don’t know he hates it when people talk back to him or try to influence his plans?"

"I know," Harrison said, "but I felt his arrangements weren’t quite right. As an assistant, I have a duty to remind him."

Gavin chuckled and said no more.

Harrison turned to look at him and smiled, "He’s quite domineering, isn’t he?"

Gavin nodded, "In his position, it’s inevitable."

...

Meanwhile, Simon and Sienna returned home and reviewed Melinda Linton’s brother’s case again. From the time Rhonda submitted the application to when it was accepted, Sienna believed Quentin had already made an introduction.

Thinking about how Quentin hadn’t called her in a while and not knowing Ian Grant’s current condition, Sienna hesitated on whether she should call him.

As she sat there, biting her pen and daydreaming, Simon noticed her hesitation and said, "Why don’t you call Quentin and tell him we’re moving to our new home tomorrow and invite him over for dinner the day after?"

His words were a wake-up call for Sienna, who cheerfully said, "That’s a good reason, I’ll go make the call now."

The phone was charging in the room, so she ran in to make the call.

Simon continued reviewing the case files of her uncle.

After a while, Sienna returned with a bad expression.

Simon asked, "So, is he coming?"

Sienna shook her head, walked over to sit down and said dejectedly, "He said Ian Grant has fallen into a coma and might not last a few days, so it’s inconvenient for him to leave."

Simon sighed, closed the case files in his hands, leaned back in his chair, stretched his arms behind his head, and stared at the wall deep in thought.

Sienna resumed flipping through the files but couldn’t focus, eventually closing them as well and daydreaming with her chin in her hand.

After a moment of silence, Simon asked, "What do you think, if Aunt Grant passes away, will Quentin look for someone else?"

After a moment of thinking, Sienna said, "He will. His basic daily needs are all taken care by Ian, if he suddenly doesn’t have a wife, how will his life go on?"

Simon remained silent.

Sienna continued, "Considering middle-aged widowed or divorced scenarios, older women can typically live out their lives without a man, but men can’t — their lives depend on having a woman around."

Simon didn’t agree with that.

He said, "That’s not necessarily true. When my grandfather was still almost fifty, my grandmother went to Bianca Fordham’s place to take care of Thomas Reed, and she would only come back maybe once a year if there was something happening. Didn’t my grandfather manage well? I haven’t seen him go out and look for any other woman."

Seeing him with a look like he was ready to argue, Sienna couldn’t help but laugh, "You’d better be like your grandfather, so I can be less worried."

She means Simon should be like Elder Forrester, not seeking other women, so that when she turns fifty, she wouldn’t have to worry about Simon being with other ladies.

Simon realized her meaning and lay on the table, looking seriously at her, grinning, "I definitely am like that. The men in the Forrester Family never look for other women outside, you see, my dad and mom have been married for almost forty years without any issues with other women."

This point, Sienna actually believes.

After the banter, they returned to thinking about Quentin’s situation.

Simon said, "Since Quentin wants to find someone else, why don’t we just match our mom with him?"

Sienna rolled her eyes at him speechlessly, "If I died, would you look for someone younger or someone about your age?"

Sensing the danger in the question, Simon quickly sat upright, raised three fingers to the sky, and vowed, "I! Absolutely! Would! Never! Look! For! Another! One!" Then, smiling, he said affectionately, "I’ll be loyal to you, in life and beyond..."

Sienna didn’t respond and continued pondering. After a while, she asked, "Given the situation, should I go see Ian?"

"No need, right? If she sees you and gets upset, leaving sooner, the Grant Family might blame you for it."

Hearing that, Sienna shivered, closed her eyes, and shook her head, reopening the case files, "I must be out of my mind to think about visiting her."

The next day, they moved into The Fenmore Villa.

Since the villa was too large, it needed someone to manage its cleanliness and the surroundings. Simon borrowed a cleaning auntie and a gardener uncle from the Forrester Family old manor to spend half a day each day tidying up the villa’s cleanliness and garden plants.

They didn’t hire a live-in maid; besides Sienna feeling inconvenienced by having outsiders in the house, Simon also thought a live-in maid would affect their sweet interactions as a couple at home.