Chapter 20

“Thanks. I’m doing great. If you have time, you can come here and visit. There’s a beautiful sea here and an active volcano that may erupt at any time. I wake up at sunrise and rest with sunset. I’m happy.”

Grace put down the brush and replied to Violet.

To her surprise, despite the twelve–hour time difference, Violet texted back right away, “That’s great. I’m so happy for you. I just wanna check on you and let you know they’re all looking for you. Well, enjoy your life. You don’t have to reply to this message.”

After all, the more they texted each other, the more possible Grace might be exposed.

Now that Grace had started a new chapter of her life, she shouldn’t be haunted by anything related to her past.

Violet believed so.

Grace smiled knowingly as she read Violet’s message.

Of course, she understood Violet’s good intentions by saying she didn’t need to reply.

She was in Pine Prison for seven years. If it weren’t for Violet, she would have been dead by now.

She remembered that Violet was demoted to Pine Prison.

They were both let down by life and found solace in each

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the other needed it most.

didn’t tell me you were such a

her landlord, came up to the roof to dry some fruit and saw Grace

wasn’t being modest; she was telling the truth.

once, after she came back to the Parrish’s villa, let alone those seven

so beautiful. If you have time, why don’t you paint one for me? I’d be happy

a bit at a loss when facing such

is, now that you’re here, it means you’re moving on to a new life. Don’t be haunted by your past. It

hair with her wrinkled

smelt a faint,

seemed to come from an essential oil that Mary

fifties, Grace suddenly felt a lump in

cried after years of unbearable

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you’re done painting, get downstairs. I’ll put the kettle

the change in

tonight. And shall we fetch Andy, too?” Grace

She didn’t cry.

was so unfamiliar to her. The fact that she met kind people like Mary

indeed struck a chord with

to start over, she shouldn’t be haunted by her past. Those pain–either emotionally or physically–no longer mattered.

the landscape painting, she decided to find

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