"Really? Quick, call her," Rebecca urged gladly.

Sydney's brows furrowed as she said, "Theo, are you really going to call Rose right now? She's very busy."

The solemn look on his mother's face made it seem as though the sky would fall on their heads if he really called Rosalie.

Instead of saying something, Theodore let Rebecca go and pulled out his phone from his pocket. He left the scene, and walked toward the door of the villa. Sydney hurried out after him and saw him scrolling through his contacts.

Sydney said, "Theo, are you really going to call Rose?"

If he called her out of the blue, all her efforts would go down the drain.

Things would go back to what they were in the past, with the two of them entangled with each other and in pain.

"Are you afraid of me calling Rose?" Theo said.

"No, that's not what I meant," Sydney explained. "I just don't want to see you hurting."

"It's none of your business. It's my own business whether I'm hurting or not. I'm an adult, not a child needing his mother's protection."

Sydney bowed her head in guilt. "Theo, I just... I just don't want you two getting involved with each other again."

he remained silent as he continued making the call and putting the phone at his

very nervous, unsure of what he would say to Rosalie. She couldn't rudely snatch the

they would get

get complicated again and might even become

went through, Theodore said, "Hello, Ms.

Theodore's greeting, she looked

to say, "Can you do me

dementia and insists on seeing my ex-wife. However, my ex-wife isn't

coming over and pretending you're

to pick you up. Where are you right now?" After he received

tone of doubt, "Theo, who

looks a little like Rose, and I thought she could come over and impersonate Rose Grandma isn't of clear

if Rose came here in person,

a sigh of relief. She had thought Theo was really

brows. "You're happy I didn't call Rose, aren't you?

didn't understand why his mother became like

really don't

thoughtful toward me." With that, Theodore turned around and walked back

sighed, guilt flooding her

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