Gloria lifted her gaze abruptly to stare at Harvey. “What are you trying to say? Are you trying to tell me that Tyler wouldn’t have fallen in love with me even if he ended up finding me instead of Vicky back then?”

“Yes,” Harvey uttered slowly, his words like sharp blades cutting into her heart. “Even if he found you, he would’ve never fallen in love with you. Besides, it was actually Vicky whom he was looking for… Gloria, he found the right person, and Vicky never tried to impersonate you.”

Gloria was stunned for a few moments, but she soon started cackling. Her often-soft voice sounded extremely sharp and unpleasant.

“Fine. None of you would believe me. You all think that I’m lying. But that would mean that either Tyler or your lover, Vicky, are lying about it as well, right? Or are you going to say that the necklace I happened upon isn’t Tyler at all?”

“None of you lied.” Harvey looked into her eyes. “You did play ‘The Moonlight Bay’ that night in the garden, but that doesn’t mean Vicky has never shown up at the same spot the same night.”

Gloria paused. “What do you mean?”

same song before her performance that night. She appeared in the garden before you did.

I found, then?

dropped the necklace when he was listening to you play, or when he was listening to Vicky play? When you saw the necklace, I suppose you tried searching for the owner,

Gloria was rendered speechless.

for the owner of the necklace,

doesn’t mean Vicky was the one he was

a woman just because of a glimpse of your back. It doesn’t matter

“Why doesn’t that matter? If he didn’t see me or look for me, he would’ve never gotten to know Vicky! Without me, they would’ve

in his eyes, wondering how

long silence, he decided to tell

when he left.” He paused and continued, “You must’ve wondered what makes me so certain about that, right? It’s because a woman was having an accident out in the hall

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