"Really? Quick, call her," Rebecca urged gladly.

Sydney's brows furrowed as she said, "Theo, are you really going to call Rose right now? She's very busy."

The solemn look on his mother's face made it seem as though the sky would fall on their heads if he really called Rosalie.

Instead of saying something, Theodore let Rebecca go and pulled out his phone from his pocket. He left the scene, and walked toward the door of the villa. Sydney hurried out after him and saw him scrolling through his contacts.

Sydney said, "Theo, are you really going to call Rose?"

If he called her out of the blue, all her efforts would go down the drain.

Things would go back to what they were in the past, with the two of them entangled with each other and in pain.

"Are you afraid of me calling Rose?" Theo said.

"No, that's not what I meant," Sydney explained. "I just don't want to see you hurting."

"It's none of your business. It's my own business whether I'm hurting or not. I'm an adult, not a child needing his mother's protection."

guilt. "Theo, I just... I just don't

as he continued making the call and

of what he would say to Rosalie. She couldn't rudely snatch the phone over. That

between them, they would get

get complicated again and might

the call went through, Theodore said,

she heard Theodore's greeting, she looked up with doubt in her

say, "Can you do

However, my ex-wife isn't around right now. You look a bit like e

you up. Where are you right now?" After he received an

doubt, "Theo, who is this

I thought she could come over and impersonate Rose Grandma

here in person, Grandma might not be able to recognize

relief. She had

made Theodore furrow his brows. "You're happy I didn't call Rose, aren't you? You really

didn't understand why

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