Chapter 48 If It Came to Her, She'd Take It
Before the staff got back with the stuff, the kid sat quietly on Elizabeth's lap, fiddling with the runes. Elizabeth asked Arthur to check the time.
Arthur made a call and said, "They couldn't find everything in town, so they went to the city. It'll be about two more hours."
Elizabeth nodded. "Let's head back to the yard and rehearse while we wait. Sitting around for two hours is a waste."
Raymond and the others agreed. "Yeah, let's go back."
Elizabeth handed the kid to his mom. "When the stuff gets here, I'll draw the runes and bring them over."
Jimmy's wife took the child and said, "Thanks, Elizabeth. And don't worry about dinner tonight; come eat at our place."
Jimmy chimed in, "Yeah, you gotta come over for dinner. I'll come get you later."
They planned to ask Elizabeth privately about her fee. Elizabeth looked at the others. "Dinner here tonight?"
Raymond beamed. "Count me in. Where you lead, good food follows."
Ronald chuckled. "Indeed, we're always on the winning side when we're with you."
Nancy agreed. "Definitely, let's follow your lead for dinner."
Seeing their agreement, Elizabeth turned to Jimmy and his wife. "Thanks, then."
They quickly waved it off. "No, thank you."
After a few more words, Elizabeth and her group were about to leave. The kid in Jimmy's wife's arms, who had been quiet, suddenly started struggling and crying when he saw Elizabeth leaving. "Pretty, pretty!"
The kid reached out for Elizabeth, clearly wanting her to hold him. Seeing him cry so pitifully, Elizabeth picked him up. He immediately stopped crying, hugged her neck, and said, "Pretty!"
Jimmy's wife, feeling a bit embarrassed, tried to take the child back. "Come here, I'll hold you. She'll come play with you later."
But the child clung tightly to Elizabeth. "No, want pretty."
Though young, he felt very comfortable around Elizabeth, no longer scared. Plus, she was beautiful, soft, and smelled nice; he really liked her.
Jimmy's wife sighed with a mix of laughter and tears. "My son is usually very picky about people. He only lets his grandma and us hold him. I didn't expect him to cling to Elizabeth today."
This had never happened before, showing Elizabeth's special charm. It was said that children had strong perceptive abilities.
Seeing this, Elizabeth smiled. "How about I take him to our yard to play? I'll bring him back when we come for dinner."
With the child clinging to Elizabeth, the couple had no choice. "Alright, sorry to trouble you, Elizabeth."
They also thought it would be comforting for their son to be with Elizabeth. So, Elizabeth and her group returned to the yard with an extra child.
When they arrived, the other group had already returned from their work. Today, Eugene and his team couldn't find suitable work, so they went back to the farm where they had previously packed vegetables. This job wasn't as tiring, and they earned thirty dollars each, plus lunch.
The four were sitting in the yard drinking water when they saw Elizabeth return with a child. They were puzzled.
Kevin curiously asked, "Did you take a babysitting job today?"
The thought of babysitting brought back memories of being overwhelmed by kids on the first day. Brenda clearly remembered it too.
Seeing the child in Elizabeth's arms, smiling and well-behaved, Brenda's expression remained unchanged, but her grip on her skirt tightened. Why was it that the last time she took care of a child, the kid cried and fussed constantly, while the child Elizabeth encountered was so obedient?
Hearing Kevin's question, the audience also remembered Brenda's experience on the first day when she volunteered to help take care of a child.
[Do you remember when Brenda turned a well-behaved child into a crying one?]
[How could we forget? The grandma even got upset and chased them away.]
[Look at Kevin's expression; he seems traumatized by crying children.]
[It's not just crying children. The child was quite well-behaved when Brenda wasn't taking care of him.]
[What a comparison.]
[Ahem, as Kevin's and Brenda's fans would say, children have sharp eyes.]
[Truth from above.]
Kevin's and Brenda's fans fell silent, feeling a bit embarrassed.
Raymond looked at Kevin and said, "We didn't take a babysitting job." He then proudly added, "This child saw how beautiful our Elizabeth is and insisted on clinging to her."
The child, hearing this, seemed to agree, hugging Elizabeth's neck and saying, "Pretty, pretty!"
Brenda was silent. She wanted to throw this child out.
Kevin hadn't expected this reason. But he had to admit, Elizabeth was indeed very beautiful, combining all the best features of her parents. Of course, the five brothers were also quite handsome.
He asked, "Did you meet this child in the village?"
Raymond replied, "No, this is a child Elizabeth helped."
Kevin was puzzled. "What do you mean?"
Raymond, still proud, recounted what had happened at Jimmy's house. "If it weren't for Elizabeth, this kid would still be crying in his mom's arms. But now, he doesn't even want his mom, just clings to Elizabeth."
Kevin was stunned and looked at Elizabeth with a complicated expression. He had always known that Elizabeth could read destinies and do divination. The person who adopted her, Wayne, did that for a living. But they had never taken it seriously.
When Elizabeth was at home, she had helped Loren and Enrique with divination. He had always thought she only knew some superficial stuff. When the family found out Elizabeth chose divination as her college major, they didn't know what to say, thinking she was unreliable.
But now it seemed she was quite skilled in this area. Last time, she used her sense of destiny to save Robert's son, and this time she helped Robert's cousin Jimmy's son. This wasn't something superficial knowledge could achieve. They had underestimated Elizabeth.
He couldn't help but ask Elizabeth, "How about you help me too?"
Elizabeth felt quite speechless towards Kevin. When she was nice to him at home, he didn't cling to her. Now that she ignored him, he frequently sought her out for attention.
Elizabeth replied indifferently, "In our line of work, there are three types of people we don't help, and you're one of them. So don't ask me to do it."
Since Kevin had come to her, she wouldn't be polite. She knew his personality and that he would definitely dig deeper. This would give the public more room for imagination and provide journalists with a direction to investigate.
Kevin didn't expect Elizabeth to refuse him so bluntly. As expected, he frowned and asked, "What are the three rules? Tell me."
He clearly didn't believe her and thought she was brushing him off.
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