Chapter 21: Chapter 21: The Silver Handgun
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âMr. Caleb MametâŠâ
Steve Price walked in with a mahogany box and saw Caleb Mamet and Xaviera Evans hugging each other. He quickly turned around: âSorry, Mr. Caleb Mamet, I didnât see anything.â
Xaviera retreated from Calebâs embrace as soon as she heard his voice.
Feeling the empty embrace, Caleb snorted in his heart, called back Steve who wanted to leave, and introduced him to Xaviera, âSteve Price, company assistant. Xaviera Evans, my wife.â
âHello, Mrs. Mamet.â
There must be something going on between these two, and the so-called sudden marriage was just a cover! Xaviera nodded lightly in response to him.
âMr. Caleb Mamet, thisâŠâ
Steve weighed the mahogany box in his hand, unsure if he should continue.
Seeing the situation, Xaviera tactfully said, âYou go ahead with your work, Iâll go upstairs.â
âNo need.â
Caleb raised his hand to stop her, took the mahogany box from Steveâs hand, opened it and handed it to Xaviera, âYou said you were brave, right? Then open it and have a look.â
Steve couldnât help but try to stop him, âMr. Caleb Mamet, youâŠâ
Caleb ignored him, and Xaviera was even more direct, swiftly unlocking the mahogany box.
Inside the box, lined with red velvet, lay a cold-shining handgun with a rare silver body, beautiful and exquisite.
Xavieraâs eyes lit up.
As they say, the head of the Mamet family is indeed powerful; even guns can be used.
Since returning from abroad, she hadnât touched such a thing because only public officials in China were qualified to carry guns, and ordinary people would never even come into contact with them in their lifetime.
Caleb stared at Xavieraâs face, not missing a single change in her expression. He didnât know what a normal womanâs first reaction to seeing a gun would be, but he knew it definitely wouldnât be the expression Xaviera was showing now!
Her eyes were crystal clear, full of eagerness to try!
Xaviera quickly glanced at Caleb. It wouldnât be a tease for him to show her the gun, would it?
So, taking advantage of Calebâs inattention, she swiftly grabbed the gun, the weight and feel of it making her very satisfied.
âClick. â
The sound of the safety sliding made Steveâs face turn pale, and he stuttered a warning, âBe, be careful, Mrs. Mamet, this is a real gun!â
This was not a childâs plaything; it was a dangerous weapon that could take a life!
Xaviera rolled her eyes. Of course, she knew it was a real gun.
Reluctantly touching the gun body one more time, she put the gun back into the mahogany box and couldnât help but exclaim, âGreat gun!â
Seeing Xavieraâs small action, Caleb closed the mahogany box and asked with a smile, âHave you ever touched a gun before?â
Xavieraâs action of loading the gun was skilled and natural, as if she had done it thousands of times.
âJust practiced a few times.â
Xaviera retracted her gaze from the mahogany box and spoke lazily.
Caleb licked his lips.
Miss Evans, who had been thrown into the countryside by the Evans family since she was a child, actually knew how to use a gun?
Thinking about what the Evans family had said about Miss Evans being weak and unable to take care of herself, Caleb felt that the Evansâ family eyes were probably blind.
With a flick of his hand, the mahogany box landed precisely in Xavieraâs arms. Caleb nonchalantly said, âSince you know how to use it, Iâll give it to you.â
Steve stared dumbfounded.
That was a gun! Who would give a gun to someone else?
What the hell were these two doing? It was bad enough that Mr. Caleb Mamet was abnormal, but even the wife he married was just as abnormal!
After Xaviera carried the gun upstairs with satisfaction, Steve approached Caleb and asked in a low voice, âPresident, you and Mrs. MametâŠâ He pointed upstairs, meaningfully: âWhatâs going on? Didnât the Evans family say that Mrs.
Mamet was in poor health and weak, and couldnât take care of herself?â
Caleb gave him a sideways glance, âYou believe what the Evans family said? When did your brain stop working so well?â
Steve:
âDo I need to have someone investigate it? Mrs. Mamet, sheâŠâ Steve was still not quite at ease.
Xaviera was so different from the person they described, and Calebâs identity was extraordinary. Putting someone like her beside Caleb would be like putting a time bomb that might explode at any time.
Caleb was silent for a while, then shook his head and refused, âNo need, she has no ill intentions towards me.â
AndâŠ
He looked down at his hand, thinking about the feeling of holding Xaviera in his arms, which was surprisingly good. The woman might sometimes be prickly, but when she was vulnerable, she was even more heartbreaking.
He didnât know what kind of experiences Xaviera had gone through to become like a hedgehog, but since she was already his wife, it was his duty to protect her under his wings..