Chapter 690

After making all the arrangements, Cecil gave Bernard another meaningful glance. Then he took something from the study and left, leaving Ella and Bernard alone. Ella silently ate her food, completely ignoring Bernard. Bernard sat across from her, his eyes fixed on her, and didn’t even blink.

“Can you stop staring at me like that?” Ella asked.

“No,” Bernard said.

Ella was speechless and thought Bernard was a troublemaker.

“Something like that happened last night. Lorenzo said to keep an eye on you,” Bernard said.

Ella asked, “What do you mean by keeping an eye on me at all times?” She hadn’t fully recovered from her cold. After eating and resting for a while, she needed to nap.

Bernard replied, “It means I have to follow you everywhere, all the time.”

Ella was speechless and thought, ‘Follow me everywhere, all the time?’ “What about when I sleep?” she asked. Ella thought, Will you follow me even when I’m sleeping?

Bernard replied, “I have to keep an eye on you.”

Ella thought, How am I supposed to sleep like this? And what about when I need to use the bathroom? Would Bernard follow me? However, she didn’t dare to ask that question.

Ella thought, ‘Although Bernard’s mind is quite active, he can be stubborn sometimes. I wonder what Lorenzo told him. What if he insists on following me to the bathroom? Oh my god.’

Ella’s mind went completely blank. She thought, ‘Why would Lorenzo arrange something like this? If the situation is dangerous, he can assign a female bodyguard to me.’ However, considering her relationship with Lorenzo, she didn’t feel she could ask for too much.

Since there was nothing she could do, she decided to stay awake. Ella glared at Bernard without saying a word.

Chloe prepared the medicine for her. “Ms. Turner, these are your after-meal medications,” she said.

“Um, thank you,” Ella expressed her gratitude.

Cecil had found two maids for her, but Lorenzo fired them. He said they couldn’t even change a person’s clothes or help them make the medicine well. Ella was a little embarrassed by this. Ella hadn’t expected that her actions would cause them to lose their jobs. Now, she obediently took the medicine and drank it all up.

“Please help me… Forget it. I’ll go get it myself.” She had wanted Chloe to bring her a blanket. But Ella felt she wasn’t in a position to be waited upon. She might have a tough challenge ahead of her.

Ella decided to do everything herself from now on. Ella went to her room to get a blanket and came back downstairs. She sat on the sofa, draping the blanket over her legs.

Bernard had said he would watch her every move, so if Ella wanted to sleep, she couldn’t go to her room. As expected, Bernard sat down on the sofa opposite her.

“Can you go somewhere else?” Ella asked. In short, she wanted Bernard to stay away from her and stop staring at her.

Bernard shook his head. “No.”

Sleeping on the sofa was already a compromise. But Bernard still went too far. So Ella ignored him and turned her back on Bernard.

However, because of what Bernard had said earlier, Ella felt his eyes on her even though she wasn’t looking at him. It felt like she had a target on her back.

For half an hour, neither of them spoke. Finally, Ella couldn’t take Bernard’s intense stare any longer and turned around.

“You don’t have to do this,” she muttered. She knew she couldn’t sleep with Bernard acting like this. Ella felt weak and drained. Bernard’s presence only intensified her discomfort.

“I only listen to Lorenzo,” Bernard replied.

It was clear that Bernard wouldn’t budge without Lorenzo’s order. Ella thought she’d had enough. She grabbed her phone, ready to call Lorenzo.

Before she could dial, Bernard asked, “Are you calling Mr. Moretti?”

“Who else would I call?” She couldn’t possibly bother Stefi at a time like this. Besides, Bernard didn’t take orders from Sebastian.

“I suggest you don’t,” Bernard said.

Ella raised an eyebrow.

“Mr. Moretti has an important task this afternoon. He might be busy right now,” Bernard continued.

Ella’s face twitched, and she quickly put away her phone. Under these circumstances, she wouldn’t dare disturb Lorenzo.

Finally, she hung up the phone, lifted the blanket, got up from the sofa, and walked upstairs. Bernard, seeing this, was about to follow her like before.

“I’m going to change,” Ella said.

“Oh,” he replied. This time, Bernard didn’t follow her into the room.

He thought, Why is she changing? Did she want to go out? That’s not an option. Now that she is involved with Dark Portal, they will try to capture her. If she went out now, Bernard wasn’t sure if he could protect Ella.

Soon, Ella came out in casual clothes. Fortunately, Lorenzo was a decent person. After she wore his clothes that day, he had someone send her new ones.

Bernard saw that she was wearing casual clothes. “Ella, you can’t go out,” he said without thinking. There were too many uncontrollable factors outside, and Bernard didn’t want to deal with the trouble.

His face darkened when Lorenzo didn’t give him an assignment for the afternoon. If they went out now and something went wrong, Bernard would get a lesson.

“But I can’t sleep either,” Ella said.

“That doesn’t mean you can go out,” Bernard replied.

Ella was speechless. Bernard sounded disgusted, and Ella knew he was looking down on her. He made it seem like she was a burden, but she wasn’t his burden. Ella thought, What’s he complaining about?

“The backyard… Can’t you… there… Nanded.”

Although Lorenzo demanded she stay in the room, there was a gate. She couldn’t even see another house in the…

“You mean the… doing… ranger… tended…”

The fenced expanse between the mansion bordered a small hall. Kila remembered seeing Lorenzo practicing there. “Yeah,” she nodded.

“Why? Manning on rotting around in the grave?” Bernard scoffed.

“Why are your thoughts so strange?” Ella retorted. She thought, Am I crazy? Why would I roll around in the grass?

“Then what do you want to do there?” Bernard asked.

“Teach me to shoot.” Ella figured she couldn’t sleep but could learn something.

Ever since Lorenzo revealed her true identity, Ella knew that everything she had learned in the past would be useless for the… as for Dark Portal, her mom, and the future head of Dark Portal. Ella was sure that her mother now stood in complete opposition to Dark Portal and that she would win.

Standing in that position, Ella would become the next Stefi, even a hundred times stronger than Stefi. When she met Stefi in Long Harbor, she couldn’t understand where Stefi’s skills came from or what use they were.

After Ella learned of her true identity, she realized that people like her, no matter who protected them, had to be able to protect themselves. Ella’s mother was always in danger, ready to face the enemy at any moment. She couldn’t protect Ella. So Ella had to be stronger than Stefi and even more ruthless.

Bernard’s eyes instantly turned wary when he heard she wanted to shoot. “What are you doing? Trying to set me up?”