Chapter 2029

It seemed like the room was a guest room. Everything was made ready for the eventual guest. It would appear that she was the first person to ever use this room at all.

She went to the bathroom and took a hot shower. She recalled back to the first time she met Roland.

Both he and his mother hailed from Westboro and had been in Westchester for a year by now. With the respectable position he held in Carter Corporation and his impressive salary, why did they not have any friends or family coming to visit them?

Perhaps they did not have any such relations?

Roland may seem emotionally distant, but he was not someone who was pompous or the type to hold himself above others.

Martha was as friendly as they come. Furthermore, she had a refined air about her, one would imagine that she came from an educated and cultured background.

It was unlikely that these two did not have friends or relatives.

The more she thought about it, the more curious she became. Still, she acknowledged that this was their private affair and it was rude of her to intrude as a complete outsider.

The shower cleared her mind. She stopped thinking about these things that should not concern her.

It was only then that she remembered that the change of clothes she brought with her was inside her bag and that she had tossed her bag on the couch in the living room!

only had a small towel that barely covered her chest and her

deep breath to brace herself. With the towel flimsily wrapped around her, she stepped out

closet was empty with not a single

the bedroom door and carefully cracked open a

dim night light was left on. There seemed to be no movements whatsoever

to settle in for the

she gently stepped forward and snuck out of the room without making

off, and the faint glow of the hallway light

her

and

turn and retreat to her room, she spotted

doubting her vision. That was when she finally recognized that it was indeed

chair by the window with a glass of water in hand. Who else could this be

silence

glared at him and stammered, "Why-why are

matter-of-factly, "I've been here the

was here before she

"I... Why didn't you say

know how to compose an appropriate answer. He hesitated for a few seconds before stating,

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