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.

to the hospital to visit my mom. Now there were

I entered the ward, I found that the caregiver was not there, and the medical equipment that was keeping my mom

I shouted. I quickly reconnected the power and ran to

performed a thorough check on my mom. Luckily, I found the problem in time, and my

was racing, and my mind was a mess. After the doctor

“Ms. Finch, I really don’t know who did it. Someone called me, saying you had left something downstairs for me

me that phone number” I

call history. It was a temporary online number that couldn’t be

had one solution, which was to check

hospital allow me to view the surveillance.

then dismissed this caregiver and hired another one, emphasizing that I needed 24 hour care. I was willing to

mom and the company’s affairs with hardly any

car.

‘Knock, knock!”

me up. It was already pitch dark outside with the dim light

outside the car window. Then I rolled down

arent you afraid

as I finished speaking. I realized

talk, “Haven’t you been sleeping

in the pirror every day, so of course I know

eyes, then got out of the

then, a voice came from afar,

looked over it was

came over, looked at Neil and then at me, then laughed, “Mr. Iceberg, you

saw Kitty, he immediately gave her an unhappy

Kitty held out an ID card

her? I recalled she saying that

was quite

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