Reborn, Reawakened, Rekindled

Chapter 199

That abandoned mansion must have been rigged with surveillance gear, for sure.

Bonnie’s plan was to keep me and Russel under her thumb, so Neil would give up.

I’ve gotta thank her for that.

Now that I’ve chosen to be with Russel, I don’t give a rat’s ass about the bad press. But I do worry about my parents, especially my dad; he was in a particular line of work where all this news would bother him.

The internet was buzzing with comments. Most of them were discussing that the relationships in our circle were a hot mess.

Some folks didn’t know when to quit. They were calling out Neil on social media to come see what was going on between his ex-wife and his best friend.

Under normal circumstances, Neil should have sent someone to do some PR, but he didn’t react, as if he just vanished.

After getting discharged, I rested at home for a day and then went straight back to work.

“Ms. Finch, these are your flowers: please sign for them” Around noon, a courier delivered a large bouquet of beautiful flowers.

I was surprised, but after I signed and read the card, I realized that they were from Russel.

He had really nice handwriting.

The other employees saw this and started cracking jokes. They must have seen the news these past few days. But because of who I am, they never brought it up in front of me; instead, they were really nice to me.

This was the first time I received flowers at work. I felt a bit embarrassed but also really content.

Soon after, Russel called. “Did you get the flowers?”

you. They’re beautiful.”

free for dinner tonight? Russel

about their condition on his end of the line. He said in a low voice, “Message me on WhatsApp.”

I messaged Russel on WhatsApp, agreeing to dinner that night. It would be our first date since we

a busy day, I went home to shower and change before heading to the restaurant Russel and

police. “Ms. Finch, about your previous kidnapping, we’ve made some progress and would like to discuss it with

speaking for over ten minutes, I felt quite down. Just as I suspected, Finn and Bonnie hadn’t been punished; instead, Finn’s underlings took the fall. I was really bummed out until I saw

feel like having dinner with me?” Russel noticed my

that Bonnie is so cunning that my accusations as the victim can’t even get her punished.” I sighed

and he comforted me gently, “It’s

was surprised, “How will

wanted to be a simple doctor, which was not bad, but it wouldn’t do much if he wanted to compete

him and me had been all over the internet, hadn’t his parents

or meeting him, but now that things were this way, I guess the Dawson family would have a bigger bone to

meant Russel would face even

said with a smile. “For

nodded slightly, choosing to

really enjoyed this rare peace. I had

Finn turned himself in. But he took all the blame and didn’t drag

a hunch that this

to

‘Finn’s Issue has been sorted out, but Bonnie’s situation

puzzled. Why did he not

then, Barbara called, “Rena, I need you to go wedding dress shopping

was taken

We’re skipping the engagement and getting married at the

need you to come with me for a fitting