It was at that precise moment that Toby became sure of the truth: Tina was not Maple.

After all, if she indeed was Maple, then why would she burn the letters which had brought them together instead of keeping them and reminiscing over them? Because she was afraid that keeping those letters would one day bring her lies crumbling down.

Jean saw that Toby was trembling slightly, like he was suppressing insurmountable rage. A chill ran down her spine as she swallowed and asked hesitantly, “T-Toby, what’s the matter with you?”

Toby ignored her and took out his phone to make a call.

 

Before long, Tom’s groggy voice sounded from the other line as he yawned and asked, “President Fuller, is there something wrong?”

“Come by the Fuller Residence now. I need to ask you something.” Having said that brusquely, Toby hung up the call without another word.

Meanwhile, on the other end of the phone, Tom sat up in bed with a spaced-out look on his face. Did he just ask me to drop by the Fuller Residence?

As his mind cleared up, he detached the phone from his ear and stared at the screen. When he saw that it was close to midnight, he let out a frustrated groan. For heaven’s sake, it’s late at night, and it’s nearly midnight! He must be insane to have asked me to go by the Fullers’ Residence! Whatever this is about, why couldn’t he have told me over the phone and insisted that I go over to his place?

and begrudgingly began to get ready, then headed over to

around 1.00AM, he found himself standing in Toby’s study. “What is it that you needed to ask me, President Fuller?”

 

man’s annoyance, Toby shot him a pointed look and tapped his fingers against his ice-cold desk. “Do you

his composure. “President Fuller, are you suspecting that Miss Gray is not your pen pal from all

Toby nodded in affirmation.

Tina and Maple are the same person at all. I’ve been by your side for all these years, and I’ve seen you exchange letters with Maple. From what I’ve gathered about her, she’s warm and kind, not to mention outgoing and witty, but Miss Gray boasts

was done speaking, he peered up at Toby apprehensively, worried that he might have angered

did not appear furious at all but looked as if

mad at me for making those disparaging comments about Miss Gray, but I wonder why he doubts her identity as Maple. He scratched

a cold voice, “You’re right. She

felt something click in his mind. He pushed his glasses up his nose bridge and asked, “Have you

how he was only kind and loving to her because he believed she was Maple. If the opposite were true, then he would naturally grow indifferent toward her. After all, Miss Reed is the

his eyes pensively without answering Tom’s question and asked instead, “You were the one who collected Maple’s letters on my behalf when I was too tied up with work before, so you would know her postal address,

drop by the place and find

“Yes,” Toby replied.

right on it, sir,” Tom said dutifully. “I’ll head over to Marina City right away

off, and his eyes widened as the

frowned at this.

cities are practically sixty kilometers away, and the Gray Family has been in Eastbourne for the last twenty years; they never once moved. It’s

on this new revelation. That’s right. If Tina really was Maple, then the postal address would have been

was deep in thought, Tom spoke up again from across the desk, “I remember you

chin jerked

the first wife. All these aside, I caught a glimpse of Tina’s handwriting last month when she got bored in your office and scribbled a couple of things. While she didn’t often write after she was discharged from the hospital, I noticed that her

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