Wendy remained silent for a while deliberately before she spoke again. "Tilly knew that you dated that girl on purpose."
"She knows that?" Francis was stunned again.
"Yes!" Wendy nodded. "Tilly said she knew that to refuse her and avoid her pestering you, you dated a random girl, which shows that you have no feelings for her. She is really heartbroken. She said she won't pester you, a crooked man, again. That's what she said."
"And she also said that she completely gave up on love. She is going to marry a random foreigner just as she was told! It doesn't matter whether she likes him or not, or he is ugly or old, she will marry him as long as he is willing to marry her. I can tell that she has seen through the vanity of the life, judging by how she looked when she said those words."
When she said "she is going to marry a random foreigner", there was a crisp sound coming from opposite her.
It turned out that Francis's spoon fell on the table.
Judging by this only, Wendy was one hundred percent sure that Francis still had some feelings for Tilly. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had such a subconscious reaction.
Francis wiped his coffee spoon with a tissue awkwardly and put it back in the cup. However, he didn't pick up his cup to drink it but asked in an uncertain tone, "Wendy, is... is that really what she said?"
"Yes, I can't lie to you!" Wendy nodded his head very seriously.
She didn't lie, but she stretched the truth a little bit based on Tilly's words.
Well, perhaps more than just a little bit.
Wendy observed Francis's expression from the corner of her eyes when she drank her juice. He looked more upset than she had expected. "You know Tilly well, don't you? She always has the courage to love and hate, and she is a straightforward girl who always keeps whose words. I think that she must have succeeded in her blind date in the UK. Hopefully, we will hear good news from her shortly after my wedding."
Now, Francis was in no mood to drink coffee.
If he really didn't care about Tilly, he would have let out a sigh of relief instead of having such a complicated look on his face.
Wendy thought it was time to progress further. She thought for a while before continuing, "You and your grandpa didn't leave the Ice city after you came here. It was because of me at the very beginning, right? But later, was it still because of me?"
On hearing this, Francis looked at her in a daze.
The sun shone through the window glass, casting shadows on his handsome face. He looked like he was in a dilemma.
Uncle Lee had been waiting for Wendy on the side of the road. After the date, Francis walked Wendy and Larry over to the car. The two of them waved good-bye at each other with a smile.
As the Mercedes drove away, Wendy leaned her head against the car window. She looked in the rearview mirror and couldn't help but smile. She saw in the mirror that Francis was still standing where he was, holding the car key, and staring at the traffic in a daze.
She had a good sleep that night. The next day was Monday, and she needed to go to work.
She tidied up the invitation cards she had written and checked them, sure that she had invitation cards for all the people that should be invited. After that, she put them into her handbag. Charlie changed his clothes and came out of the locker room with a tie in his hand. Seeing him, Wendy raised her head and asked, "Char... Honey, have you posted all the invitation cards for me?"
Although she had decided to change the way she addressed him, sometimes she still called him by his name subconsciously just as she did before. But she was afraid that he would be unhappy, so she would change to call him honey.
"Yes." Charlie nodded.
"Have you posted Felix's and Ryan's?" Wendy asked again, worried.
However, Charlie's expression was indifferent when he heard the news. He only cared about whether she had eaten two more eggs for breakfast.
He raised the question just because he didn't want to upset her. He was very happy that Francis had left with his grandfather. When he saw Wendy's smiling eyes, which were like that of a fox, he smiled as well.
After breakfast, Larry found that he forgot to bring his schoolbag downstairs. Charlie didn't want Wendy to be bothered, so he went upstairs to get it for his son.
Aunt Lee, who was trimming flowers and plants in the yard just now, came in with scissors in her hand. She walked to Wendy and put the scissors behind her back as she said, "Miss Lim, Mr. Shaw is here. He wants to see you!"
"Mrs. Shaw?" Wendy was confused.
Aunt Lee kept nodding. "Yes, it's Mr. Ewan Shaw! He's at the gate of the yard. I asked him to come in but he refused!"
Though Aunt Lee didn't know Ewan's real identity, which was a secret, she had seen him in the villa and at the dinner table, so she remembered him.
Wendy was surprised and walked out of the villa with doubt.
Ewan?
How could he come to her door so early in the morning? Didn't he follow Madge abroad...
When she passed through the yard, she indeed saw a slender figure standing at the door. There was no car parked around. At this time, he was smoking non-stop, head down. When he heard her footsteps, he immediately put out the cigarette.
Wendy widened her eyes in shock and walked up to him after making sure he was indeed Ewan. She pointed at him and asked, "Haven't you gone abroad, Ewan?"
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