Chapter 347

She turned to me and said, “When you see him later, do you intend to say hi?”

That was a strange question. “Why not?” I responded.

She shrugged. “Have you ever considered why they’re all in J City, but they lie to you about being in M Country?”

“Maybe they don’t want me to worry!”

“If that’s the case, what do you think their reaction would be when you appear out of the blue? I have an idea. Would you care to listen?”

“What do you have in mind?”

Stacey sat up straight and faced me. “You’ll see them tonight, but don’t go up to them first. Wait until tomorrow. I’m taking you somewhere to have the whole story sorted, and then we’ll deal with this calmly, alright?”

I was taken aback by what she said. It felt like she had overestimated the seriousness of the matter. I wanted to ask for more information but she silenced me. “Look, there they are!”

I looked in the direction she was pointing and saw two men, both about six feet tall, pushing a stroller as they talked.

There was some distance between us and them. I was a bit short-sighted anyway, so I could not make out exactly who they were but based on their silhouettes I could tell they were Nick and Jackson.

I really wanted to go over and talked to them, but Stacey stopped me. She urged me to call them on the phone first.

Alarmed, I took out of my phone. The screen showed some more missed calls from Ashton.

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the plane and since then I had not had the time to

that you’re coming?” She said hesitantly after taking a peek at the number

the contacts for Jackson’s

phone. From a distance, I watched him hesitate to pick it up. Nick muttered something to him, and after

it going?” Jackson answered the

my voice and said, “Hi, Jackson. Where are you? I’m coming to

like to visit as well. We can celebrate the new year together in J City. What do

moment. It’s cold here. It’s not good for the baby, traveling back and forth.

lying to me? If I had not come

“What

“She’s at home. I’m outside right now and, if you don’t mind, I have stuff to do. I’m hanging up.

without waiting for me to

as I watched them walk further away,

not stopped me, I would have run up to them and demanded to know why he

I took a deep breath and turned to

was confident that I could accept whatever would come my way. I had lost my baby, my relationship

are actually going quite

a call first. There are about one hundred missed calls from him. He must be

Ashton happened to be calling me again when I peeked at my phone. In cases like this one, a fight would most

Then I looked at Stacey and asked, “Is your place far away from

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