Reborn, Reawakened, Rekindled

Chapter 221

I was planning to have a simple dinner with Russel, trying to calm the roller-coaster of emotions I was feeling today, but things didn’t go according to plan.

“Russel, you’re eating here?” A woman barged into our sightline. She looked a bit younger than me, with a sweet oval face.

I recognized that voice. It was the same voice of the woman who answered Russel’s phone this morning.

I didn’t speak and just silently stared at Russel.

Russel gave me a quick glance. He seemed to relax a bit after seeing that I had no particular reaction. He answered coldly, “Yes. I’m having dinner with my girlfriend.”

The woman immediately turned to me and gave me a gentle smile, “Are you Irene? You’re so pretty! No wonder Russel is so smitten with you.”

“Hello” I replied politely.

“Hello, I’m Chloe Reynolds. I answered Russel’s phone this morning. I’m really sorry about that. Please forgive me.” The woman looked genuinely remorseful, without a hint of pretense.

I was moved by her gentleness and sincerity. So I just nodded slightly. “It’s okay Russel has explained it to me. I trust him.”

Chloe answered cheerfully, “That’s good! I was afraid you’d misunderstand.”

After speaking, she gave Russel another look.

From that single glance, I could see that her affection for Russel went way beyond friendship. But her eyes were full of restraint, as if she were trying her best to control her emotions.

After Chloe left, I jokingly asked, “Does Ms. Reynolds have a crush on you?”

“No.” Russel’s answer was swift. It seemed like he didn’t want to dwell on this topic.

I nodded, choosing not to pry further.

hospital to visit my mom. Now there were specialized caregivers taking care

was not there, and the medical equipment that was keeping

I shouted. I quickly reconnected the power and ran to

on my mom. Luckily, I

racing, and my mind was a mess. After the

questioned the caregiver sternly. She seemed very nervous, “Ms. Finch, I really don’t know who did it. Someone called me, saying you had left something downstairs for

that phone number”

history.

one solution, which was to

the surveillance. They agreed but said

this caregiver and hired another one, emphasizing that I needed 24 hour care.

in a row, I was taking care of both my mom and the company’s affairs with hardly any rest. After work, I drove home and fell asleep

car.

‘Knock, knock!”

car window woke me up. It was already pitch dark outside with the dim light from the street

car window.

sleeping in the car, arent

finished speaking. I realized my voice was

talk, “Haven’t you been

in the pirror every day, so of course I know I look worn out, but there was nothing I

of the car, “Yeah. I’m

then, a voice came from afar,

over

me, she looked surprised. She came over, looked at Neil and then at me, then laughed,

Kitty, he immediately gave her an

held out an ID card

end up with her? I recalled she saying that she was going after Neil. I even gave her

progress was quite

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