“What about Rachel? Don’t you want to see her?” he insisted.

“I don’t want to, at least not for now.”

“Mark is awake, and the two elders feel guilty towards you. They also wish to see you.”

“I don’t want to see them,” Josie coldly rejected him, then left his lounge and him behind.

Upon reaching the ground floor, she looked back up at the top of the building.

Once upon a time, she felt that he was standing up there all alone and she should keep him company, but in the end, she found herself badly hurt from doing so.

Josie returned home and tried to sleep. However, Dexter’s words echoed repeatedly in her mind, preventing her from getting a good night’s rest. When she was rudely awakened the next day, she felt somewhat irritable.

It was a call from Charles, the newly appointed mayor of Wavery. He had invited her out for a meal.

As Charles was an influential contact her grandfather had given her, there was no reason to refuse. Moreover, she still had to rely on the police regarding Paul’s disappearance, so she agreed to the meeting.

moment, Mallory had just arrived with breakfast when she overheard the conversation.

slightly furrowed her brows but

Charles’ lunchtime, so he didn’t

entering the private room, Charles called for the waiter as he took a seat. “I’ve learned about the recent incident,” he said. “I know it’s been tough for you and it wasn’t your fault. Rachel, who previously worked as an assistant within the

made no

dressed in a uniform, and wore a baseball cap on his head. He also wore a

said to Charles, “In the end, it was my failure in judging people that caused me to be tricked this way. I

somewhat tinged with a hint

who was a decade or two older than

merely in her early twenties, yet she

sitting next to him. “What are

family, Josie understood what Charles was looking

official position, Charles needed support, inevitably finding himself

lips together. “May

he continued,

ceviche, one grilled pork ribs, one beef stroganoff, two lobster thermidors, and a bowl of minestrone. Hmm…

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