Chapter 259 He Will Provide This Treatment
Half an hour later.
Downtown Xyleria, department store.
Jessica and Nicholas looked at each other.
Nicholas raised an eyebrow and made a "please" gesture inside.
"Let's get started, Jessica."
Jessica was speechless.
Just now, she had gone back to her bedroom bathroom to wipe her mouth because she had spit out some water. She didn't know what Gabriel and Nicholas had talked about, but suddenly, they asked her to change clothes and go out.
Gabriel had mysteriously asked, "Where do girls like to go shopping for the most?"
Jessica replied, "Huh? Probably the department store."
She had just drawn this conclusion based on her interactions with celebrities and friends. After all, shopping was a woman's nature.
Nicholas, who hadn't yet been approved to move in, looked puzzled. "What's that supposed to mean?"
Given his understanding of Gabriel, Gabriel suddenly asking such an unlikely question definitely meant something was up, and it wasn't something trivial.
Gabriel just replied, "You can stay, we just need someone to carry the bags."
Nicholas felt very confused.
Half an hour later, this was the current scene.
"What am I supposed to start?" Jessica looked bewildered.
Nicholas casually adjusted his shirt collar and smiled. "Coming to a place like this, if you're not buying anything, what are you doing here?"
He didn't know what Gabriel was thinking, suddenly wanting to take Jessica shopping, and even said that if Jessica didn't know what to buy, he would buy whatever she looked at, giving her the full treatment of a wealthy young lady.
Tonight, they were short of a driver and a bag carrier.
Nicholas, the current head of Harriman Entertainment, the most outstanding future medical scientist from Xyleria Medical School, the undefeated whirlwind on the racetrack, and the second young master of the Harriman family, was here tonight to carry bags and wait on Jessica.
She was kicked out by Michael, seeking refuge with Gabriel only to be tormented. What kind of fate was this?
It wasn't that he was slow to realize how perverse Gabriel could be, but there were many ways to be perverse. Before, it was extreme indifference; now, wasn't this too idle? Coming out late at night, not to eat but to shop at the department store with Jessica?
Gabriel could spoil women all he wanted, but dragging him along to torment him while forcing him to watch affectionate scenes, was Gabriel even human?
Gabriel had just taken a call outside, completely ignoring Nicholas's incessant eye-rolling, and told them to go into the mall first.
Enraged, Nicholas stretched out his long leg to kick Gabriel, but before his foot even touched his pant leg, he decisively retracted his leg under Gabriel's gaze while he was on the phone, turned around, and called Jessica to follow him as they entered the department store.
"I didn't say I wanted to buy anything." Jessica, who had gotten out of the car first, had no idea what Gabriel had threatened or enticed Nicholas within the car and was still clueless about what these two were up to as she stood at the entrance of the mall.
Nicholas looked around as he walked in. He had never accompanied a woman shopping before, but now, he was going to shop with his future sister-in-law. How novel!
"Just buy something. If you don't bother to choose, we can move the whole mall back tonight."
"What should I buy?"
"Anything. The more expensive, the better."
Jessica followed Nicholas's big strides inside, utterly perplexed, and occasionally looked back outside. Gabriel was still on the phone and would probably take a while to come in.
He better come in soon. Nicholas looked a bit mentally unstable, and she was afraid she couldn't handle Nicholas.
"See over there?" Nicholas suddenly pointed to a Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry store ahead. "Let's go in and take a look."
Jessica replied, "We should just find a place to have dinner. Is there a restaurant here?"
"Stop talking nonsense. Gabriel gave me a task worth at least a million dollars. If I don't spend it, I won't get to eat tonight." Nicholas impatiently grabbed her wrist through her coat sleeve and dragged her forward. "Go in and pick out a watch. That'll get me halfway through my task. Quick, quick, quick, see if there's anything you like."
Jessica couldn't wait for Gabriel to come in. She wanted to call 911 and have a psychiatrist take Nicholas away.
"I'm not buying!"
"You have to buy!"
"No!"
"Buy!"
"Are you crazy?"
"My pleasure!"
Jessica was speechless.
She was dragged into the jewelry store, where the store clerks, seeing the young, handsome, tall, and slender Nicholas, and then looking at his shirt and pants, instantly had their eyes light up. Then they looked at Jessica beside him and came over with a bright smile. "Welcome, sir and miss. What kind of jewelry are you looking for? Jewelry or watches? Or..."
The store clerk's eyes sparkled with the shrewdness typical of high-end store staff, and Jessica instinctively lowered her hat.
Nicholas sneered and whispered just loud enough for her to hear, "Don't bother hiding. It's nighttime; there's no sun. Wearing a hat and mask makes you more conspicuous, like you want everyone to know you're a celebrity."
Jessica rolled her eyes. "I have a cold! Don't want to infect anyone, okay?"
No wonder it was so easy to drag her over just now; she was probably too weak from being sick.
Nicholas sneered, "You're so popular right now, expecting not to be recognized is impossible."
Jessica immediately looked up and met the store clerk's gaze, then glanced at Nicholas. "If I'm recognized shopping with you, and I get embroiled in scandals, will you handle the crisis PR for me?"
"The Harriman family's scandals aren't that easy to publish." Nicholas gave her a knowing look.
"If Gabriel didn't consider your rising career and didn't want you to be too affected, the photos of him carrying you away that night would have been all over the internet by now. With him personally exerting pressure, whether the media releases those stories or not is entirely up to him. You don't need to worry about that."
"Sir, miss, may I ask..." The store clerk cautiously and politely inquired again after seeing them whispering for a while.
"Sorry," Jessica apologized to the clerk with a nod and turned to leave.
Nicholas, for the first time, found it so difficult to spend money on a woman, followed her out with a sour face. "Are you even a woman?"
Jessica didn't respond. She now roughly understood Gabriel's intention.
It was because she had rarely confided in anyone about her experiences with the Jenner family today, never having enjoyed the treatment she deserved as the Jenner family's daughter.
The pampered luxury, the willful spending, the carefree indulgence—all the things she should have had in her youth.
Now, he was giving her that treatment.
Everything she hadn't had in the past years.
He was making up for it.
