With that in mind, Toby fished out his phone and called Sonia’s number only to hear a cold automated voice answer in her stead, monotonously informing him that her phone had been switched off.

Tom heard it as well and cleared his throat. “Well, that shouldn’t stop you, President Fuller. Why don’t you look for her and explain things to her in person?”

Toby’s eyes glimmered at this, and for a brief second, he almost took Tom’s advice.

But the next moment, he shook his head and said, “No. I want to go over to the Gray Residence and personally expose Tina for putting on an act all these years.”

 

“Yes, sir. I’ll bring the car around immediately,” Tom said with renewed fervor as he adjusted his glasses and left to get the car ready.

Meanwhile, Toby clicked into his phone gallery and found the two pictures of Sonia that the boutique assistant had taken previously. His eyes were dark with a gentle longing as he muttered to himself, “Six years we were married. Why didn’t you ever tell me that you were my pen pal?”

If she had only given him some kind of clue that would make him realize she was Maple, then he never would have treated her the way he had!

He was pulled from his thoughts when his phone vibrated with a new message.

He glanced at his screen and saw that Tom had sent him a text, which read, ‘President Fuller, I’ve brought the car around for you. I’ll be waiting at the main entrance of the company.’

locked his phone without replying and shoved it into his pocket, then

 

the way to the Gray Residence, the sky seemed to break with a sudden torrential downpour, which was swiftly followed by fog that blurred

The forecast said that it would

don’t see what’s odd about that. Those things happen every year,” Toby remarked plainly as he stared at Sonia’s photo, his thumb caressing her

chuckled dryly. “I was only making an observation, but you’re right to say that there isn’t

him, and he was about to drown in his own thoughts when he saw a figure standing on the road

dressed entirely in white, and he was holding up a black umbrella as he stood in the middle of the road, making

this, too, and though he honked several times to signal the person to move away, it was

wrong with him?” Tom frowned and grumbled sullenly, “Does he have a death wish or something? Why the hell is he standing

car!” Toby barked in a low voice. Judging from the way he refuses

Tom and Toby leaned forward due to

at Toby and asked

ahead and snapped irritably. Then, pinching the space between his brows, he ordered imperiously,

Tom demanded with wide eyes, “Are you getting

the area, and as of now,

no telling if he’s good or bad, so it’s too dangerous for President Fuller to get out of the car now! With that in mind, Tom turned to cast Toby a concerned look before advising solemnly, “President Fuller, I don’t think you should be getting out of the car. We don’t even know the guy. What if he turns out to be

pistol and wait for me in the car. You can fire shots the moment something goes awry,” Toby

see for myself what this

up the storage compartment in the car and carefully drew out a pistol, then assembled its parts while

then took out an umbrella from the side before walking toward the middle of the road. He stopped in front of the man, who slowly lifted the edge of

impact of beholding such a beautifully-chiseled face was lost on Toby, who remained expressionless. As far as he was concerned, the man before him did not boast incredible good looks, and he demanded

go back the way you came,” the mysterious man said with an equally cold and distant

suspiciously. “What are

really have to go and expose

this, Toby widened his eyes and clenched his fists, turning more hostile by the second. “How do you know

man sighed again. “Just turn the car around and pretend you never found out

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