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.’
shoved it into his pocket, then marched out
the sky seemed to break with a sudden torrential downpour, which was swiftly followed by fog
mumbled, “President Fuller, have you noticed how odd the weather has been for the past few days? The forecast said that it would be sunny, but the rain has proved relentless nowadays, not to mention
plainly as he stared at Sonia’s photo, his
“I was only making an observation, but you’re right to say that there isn’t anything odd about
ignored him, and he was about to drown in his own thoughts when he saw a figure standing on the road
holding up a black umbrella as he stood
several times to signal the person to move away,
Tom frowned and grumbled sullenly, “Does he have a death wish or something? Why the hell is he standing in the middle of the
car!” Toby barked in a low voice. Judging from the way he refuses to budge,
leaned forward due to the inertia, thereafter
at Toby and asked hastily, “Are
Toby glowered at the unmoving figure ahead and snapped irritably. Then, pinching the space between
eyes, “Are you getting
hardly any cars that passed by the area, and as of now,
to the point, why is he blocking our way? There’s 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
pistol and wait for me in the car. You can fire shots the moment something goes awry,”
going to see for myself what this man
he had already made up his mind. Sighing, he opened up the storage compartment in the car and carefully drew out a pistol, then assembled its parts while nodding as he said, “Roger that, sir. I’ll keep an eye
the middle of
on Toby, who remained expressionless. As far as he was concerned, the man before him did not boast incredible good looks, and he demanded icily, “Who are you, and what the
way you came,” the mysterious man said with
narrowed his eyes suspiciously. “What are you
man sighed like he was already growing tired of their exchange. “Do you really have to go and expose Tina for pretending to be
fists, turning more hostile by the
around and pretend you
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