Coolest Girl in Town

Chapter 783 Stop Pretending

While Benedict jutted his chin in silence, Elise was able to see through the mild-mannered nature hidden beneath his unforgiving behavior. Because of that, she began to feel more comfortable around the man, with whom she then tried to ingratiate herself. “Can I depend on you for help from now on, Uncle Benedict?”

Benedict stood in place and looked down, pondering for a short while before he turned around and looked Elise in the eye. “We might have fallen out back then, but I never said I’d abandon you.”

Aw! Everyone in the Joslin Family is so kind. At the thought of that, Elise felt her heart melting, extending her arms to hug Benedict, as if Anastasia was hugging her uncle. “Thank you so much, Uncle Benedict.”

In that instant, Benedict’s heart raced like a jackhammer as he took a deep breath and tried his best to keep a straight face. Then, he calmly replied, “No worries.” Yes! Yes! My niece is finally doing something to coax me! “Ahem!” Benedict pushed her away, intentionally distancing himself from her while pretending to feel annoyed with that. “Have a little decency, would you? You’re a grown lady. People are going to laugh at you if they see you doing that.”

“They can laugh all they want.” Elise seized Benedict’s arm and said, “Because they’re probably just jealous of me for having such an awesome uncle, so I’m not worried about that at all.”

Upon hearing that, Benedict eventually burst into laughter in amusement, whereupon the two of them proceeded to chat happily while walking away. “You’re always unpredictable because I’m sure you’re going to complain about me for being bossy again one day!”

“Nope, that is not going to happen. I like it when you boss me around, Uncle Benedict.” Elise felt as if she had completely lived her life as Anastasia. After all, she slowly began to soften up because everyone in the family seemed to love her a lot.

A few minutes later, the bright sunshine was blocked by a few emerging dark clouds just as the weather took an unexpected change. Meanwhile, Benedict suddenly held his right knee and sank to his other one. At the same time, his face twisted in pain while his forehead began to be covered with cold sweat.

Uncle Benedict?” Elise held the man’s arm, preventing him from collapsing onto

to overcome

the doctor after the maid heard the commotion and came to investigate what was

get this?” Elise crouched down and took a closer

not remember anything about it?”

anything to do with that?” Elise was

her face. “Three years ago, Edmond lured you to the moat during

fell into the water. Although he was

a really rebellious girl when she was still alive. Well, what can I do now anyway besides cleaning Anastasia’s mess

the maid to fetch her silver needles just when Noa returned with the doctor. Therefore, Elise quickly stepped aside and made way for the doctor, standing aside

Benedict’s bruise before reaching for his syringe, which he was about

seem to hold in skepticism any longer. “I’m sorry. I mean no disrespect to your professionalism, but don’t you think there’s more you could

euphemistically. “A patient’s life is a doctor’s priority, but I suppose I should understand that it is not easy for everyone to understand what medical studies are about. However, that doesn’t mean I can tolerate your doubts about my years of

something incurable. So, I want to know why it’s still bothering my uncle even after three years. Did you really look into his condition? Why didn’t you continue to let him

I would have treated his condition if I had known what to do. You know what? I’m starting to think that you’re insulting my credibility.” The doctor lost his