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.’
without replying and shoved it into his pocket, then marched out
seemed to break with a sudden torrential downpour, which
days? The forecast said that it would be sunny, but the rain has proved relentless nowadays, not to mention the thunderstorm last night. Apparently, floods and earthquakes have been happening in certain
happen every year,” Toby remarked plainly as he stared at Sonia’s photo, his thumb caressing
you’re right to say that there isn’t
was about to drown in his own thoughts when he saw a figure standing on the road
white, and he was holding up a black umbrella as he stood in the middle of
he honked several times to signal the person to move away, it was to no
and grumbled sullenly, “Does he have a death wish or something? Why the hell is he standing in the middle of the road instead of dodging oncoming
a low voice. Judging from the way he refuses to budge,
to an abrupt halt. Tom and Toby leaned forward due to the inertia, thereafter falling backward into their seats
at Toby and asked hastily, “Are you
snapped irritably. Then, pinching the
Tom demanded with wide eyes, “Are you getting out of
There were hardly any cars that passed by the area, and as of now, the entire
President Fuller to get out of the car now! With that in mind, Tom turned to cast
the pistol and wait for me in the car. You can fire shots the moment something goes awry,” Toby instructed
see for myself what
when 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
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 the black umbrella to reveal an
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 hell do
should go back the way you came,” the mysterious man
narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
of their exchange. “Do you really have to go and expose Tina for pretending to be Maple? Can’t you just keep going on like this? It’s
widened his eyes and clenched his fists, turning more hostile by the second. “How do you know what
car around and
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