Suddenly, the door to the office flew open, and Tom came barging in without even knocking. “President Fuller!”

Toby frowned and demanded irritably, “What is it?”

Tom did not answer him immediately but looked around the office like he was searching for something. At the sight of this, Toby pursed his lips into a grim line and asked coldly, “Just what are you looking at?”

“President Fuller, where is Miss Reed?” Tom asked hastily.

 

Toby recalled what he had done earlier with Sonia’s cup of leftover tea and subconsciously grazed his thumb over his lips, then said plainly, “She left.”

Taken aback by this, Tom raised his voice by an octave as he repeated, “Left?”

Massaging his temples tiredly, Toby sauntered over to his desk. “Why are you looking for her?”

“Have you forgotten, President Fuller? I just got back from Marina City,” Tom replied urgently as he followed the other man from behind.

Upon hearing this, Toby stopped in his tracks and turned to shoot his assistant a dark look. “What are you implying? Are you trying to say that whatever you found out about Maple has something to do with Sonia?”

He felt his heartbeat speed up at the possibility of this.

 

I went to Marina City and tracked down Maple’s old postal address, and

Tom’s sentence. His eyes widened at the revelation, and

it. Maple said that she had a stepmother and a sister, not to mention a pet dog named Bucky. Now that her address has turned out to be the Reeds’ residence, Miss Reed is the only one

to say, “More importantly, Maple and Miss Reed have similar handwriting. While the former’s lacks the refinement of the latter’s, one could still tell that the penmanship is the same. And yet, neither of us have ever recognized this, even when Miss Reed shares the same backstory as Maple. A single thought is all it would have taken for us to connect the

his head in shame. “I’m starting to wonder if

hand were throbbing as he seethed, “No, you aren’t

of the Fuller Family knew about Toby’s history with Maple, so it was strange that no

had been under the influence of

Toby was thinking, Tom widened his eyes in shock as he asked hesitantly, “President Fuller, are you saying that somebody doesn’t want us to know about Miss Reed’s identity as

“It’s only natural for Tina to keep that a secret from us, but there’s no way she could stop us from putting

Toby looked at Tom intently and asked, “Do you believe that there might be some mysterious force in this

he quipped, “Well, of course, though I’m quite sure the force

and he slightly opened his mouth as he pressed, “Is this the reason why you asked to see a therapist the last time, President Fuller? I thought you

President Fuller said earlier, he was implying that I have been hypnotized

dark with thought, and when he remained silent, Tom took it

reassured Toby that he was not hypnotized, he was still certain that the opposite was true, only that the doctor had not been able to diagnose him as such. Perhaps

Tom patted his cheek and muttered, “How

turning. “From now onward, go and contact the world’s most renowned hypnotists—the more,

promised immediately,

this state of mind-control that they were in. Just as Tom was about to leave to carry out his new orders, he thought of something and asked, “By the way, President Fuller,

his head

to meet up with Maple before he

pen name, the idea of reconciling with Sonia terrified him, for there was far too much

loved Tina, but that was because you thought she was

twitched. “When did you realize I was never in love

eyes that you did not. You were only kind to her because you thought she was Maple, and it was only when Maple was brought up that

fell silent at

heard what Tom said, he concluded that he indeed had never loved Tina. Tom had gathered as much six years ago, while he only became aware of this

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