Gabrielle raised her head in horror and found Jackson staring intently at her.

"Why did my nose bleed?"

Jackson snorted, "It's not shameful to admit that it's because of my body."

With that, he gave her a tissue.

Gabrielle wanted to press his head into the water, but she did not dare and could only take the tissue obediently. It's the most humiliating thing in the 19 years of her life.

She treated her nosebleed and poured water on her cheeks, trying to cool it down, but her face turned redder and hotter.

Jackson leaned against the bathtub and watched the lovely woman's every move. He adored Gabrielle so much since the very beginning he saw her.

Then he suddenly said, "You asked me if I would kill the one who leaked the secret?"

Gabrielle's hands shook, and she was choked by water.

She looked to Jackson in horror, waiting for his answer.

He spoke slowly, "No."

Then she breathed a sigh of relief.

But the next sentence made her breathless again.

Jackson went on speaking, "If you leave me one day, I may kill you."

***

In the presidential palace, Robert rushed to Evan's bedroom.

He gasped for breath all the way and reported to Evan, "Mr. Howel, Jackson took Mrs. Howel and Charles away."

Evan's was full of gloom. Jackson took them away?

"We've got surveillance video. After they left the opera house, they headed in four different directions."

Jackson was well prepared. He asked groups of his men to head in different directions deliberately to confuse them so that they couldn't look into their whereabouts.

"I need to find out where they are before it's dark."

Robert said yes, but he was not sure whether he could find them before it's dark. It would take a few days to find them in such a big country.

It seemed to him that it was impossible to accomplish the task before it's dark.

After the bath, Gabrielle went downstairs, and she was really hungry.

The fragrance attracted Gabrielle to the kitchen.

She remembered that Charles had two servants here. Why did Avery cook in person? Was she cooking for Mr. Black again?

Did they treat Avery as a maid?

Thinking of this, Gabrielle went into the kitchen, "Avery, don't do that. Now that you have a servant, why do you have to do it yourself?"

Avery ignored her words and pointed to the spaghetti, "Gabrielle, help me with the spaghetti."

"You are making spaghetti for that president again?"

"It's for Charles." Avery finally knew Gabrielle was dissatisfied, cooked the spaghetti, and explained, "Charles said if I make spaghetti for him, he will send me back, and I will take you with me."

"Really?" Gabrielle held Avery's arm, but she doubted, "What if he doesn't let you go even though you cook for him?"

"Then think of another way."

They had to get out of here before the festival.

Gabrielle looked at her sister with admiration. Avery was clever. As long as she wanted to do it, she could make it.

So Gabrielle nodded at ease.

Then a servant came in, "Princess, Mr. Meyer, let me in to get some goblets."

"What for? Aren't their cups for drinking water?"

Were they going to drink wine?

"Mr. Oliver said they would have some wine tonight."

Avery paused and felt something was wrong.

She waved her hand, "You go out first. I will take goblets to them later."

"But..." The servant was to be punished if she didn't finish the task.

"It's not a big deal."

The servant hesitated and finally went out.

Avery didn't know where the goblets were and had to open the cabinet door one by one.

"Avery, why didn't you let the servant take the goblets?" It was tiring to cook the meal in person and to take the goblets in person.

At last, Avery found the goblets. She bent down and took them out. She picked up the four goblets and smelled them. Then she held the transparent goblets under the light.

"Avery?" Gabrielle seemed to understand what Avery was doing. Avery suspected that there was something wrong with the goblets.

But she didn't see anything wrong.

"Take them for me and wash them, especially the rims of them." Avery did not find anything wrong and let Gabrielle help wash the goblets.

Soon spaghetti was served by the servants on the table. When Avery and Gabrielle went out of the kitchen, Charles and Jackson just arrived. Avery handed the goblets to the servant.

"Thanks for your spaghetti," Charles said to her.

"Try it?"

Charles was very obedient and tried it. It's just spaghetti, but he ate it as if it were an expensive delicacy.

"It's tasty. It's the best spaghetti I've ever had."

Jackson despised it, frowning, and said, "Charles, I didn't enter your wedding ceremony in the presidential palace. There is something to give you as a gift."

With that, Jackson made a finger snap and a servant came in with a tray.

On the tray was a bottle of wine with a red bow tied to the bottle's neck.

"Wine?" Gabrielle cried out in surprise.

"It has been collected appropriately for forty years. A mouthful of wine is worth a building."

Why was the wine so valuable?

Avery was surprised and speechless. In fact, there was a lot of wine in the Howel family, but she did not carefully study the price. The bottle of wine simply refreshed her understanding.

At this time, the servant put the wine on the table carefully.

Gabrielle was curious. Is it not just a bottle of wine? It would eventually go into their stomach.

Perhaps only Jackson and Charles knew that there was something wrong with the wine.

Charles wanted to get Avery drunk and drug her.

It's a pity that Avery wouldn't get drunk easily.

Charles sat on Avery's side and glanced at the woman's goblet as if nothing had happened.

At this moment, a goblet suddenly dropped on the ground without warning, making a sudden burst of broken sound.