Chapter 171

Rosalie's grip tightened over her phone, feeling miserable. Her heart. broke thinking about tears streaming down Rebecca's old, wrinkled. face.

She had been keeping Rebecca company all this while, but she didn't. even realize what Rebecca was feeling. And yet, Theodore did.

Perhaps she had misunderstood him all along. It wasn't that he didn't care about Grandma, he simply didn't show his concern as explicitly as she did. He had never been an expressive person. Her palms started sweating. "Are we going to just keep dragging things out?"

"I promise you that I'll keep my distance from Cindy."

Rosalie found that laughable. "Keep your distance? I can't just turn a blind eye to what you two have already done!"

"Nothing happened between us!"

"Don't bother explaining yourself. I saw it clearly with my own eyes."

The image of them in the resort made pain pulsate through Rosalie's heart.

"What you saw may not be the truth.""

"What's the truth, then?" Rosalie demanded. "Was it not true that your and Cynthia were locked in an embrace? Was it not true that you and her were lying on the same bed? Do you think I'm a three-year-old child?"

She said it so flatly, as if emphasizing even a single word would exhaust her.

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Theodore remained silent.

was supposed

route back

continued driving until he stopped the

the seatbelt and stepped out of the car, before going to the other side and opening her car

we?"

question once more, and repeated himself.

bungalow. He knew the passcode, and walked straight into the building right after keying it in. A middle-aged

"Is Cindy back?"

Zeller isn't

right. Go back

where she sat down on the

looked around her. So this

that you and Cynthia are so close, you even know the passcode to her house? Does she also know the passcode to our

uncomfortable the moment she stepped

which she placed on the coffee table before taking

world did you bring me

about to stand up, when Theodore grabbed her arm.

"Why?"

have something to tell

bent on leaving. However, Theodore's grip on her arm

down

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