Charlie's first reaction was to be surprised when he saw Marianne's slender figure as she stood not far away.
Immediately afterward, he looked at Kathleen and asked in confusion, "What’s going on here, Miss Fox?"
Before Marianne could reach them, Kathleen smiled slightly and said in a low voice, “I invited Miss Long to come here. Sorry for not telling you about this in advance, Mr. Wade."
Having said that, Kathleen then added, "I saw that there seemed to be some misunderstanding between you and Miss Long. So, I thought that it would be great if you and Miss Long could have the opportunity to sit down and have a good
chat. Otherwise, if we were to go back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, you would not have such a good opportunity to be able to clear up the misunderstanding with Miss Long face to face."
Charlie really did not expect that Kathleen would be so meticulous in her observations and would actually be so considerate.
However, although Charlie was surprised, he also felt a little grateful toward Kathleen.
In truth, he also really wanted to have a good talk with Marianne before leaving Hong Kong. He did not intend to force her to understand his original intention, but he wanted to have the opportunity to at least apologize to Marianne in person.
Charlie naturally had a guilty conscience when it came to Marianne.
However, Marianne seemed to be very disappointed with him at the airport in the afternoon. Charlie did not know how to explain things to all. After all, he did not know whether she would be willing to listen to his explanation.
In addition, he was going to return to the United States soon, so Charlie thought that it was already a hopeless situation.
He felt that it was already a done deal anyway, so he should just do whatever he wanted to do. Although he had not told Marianne the truth, he had been lenient toward Shawn because of Marianne.
Furthermore, Kathleen had learned that Marianne had a food street of her own from the conversation between Charlie and Marianne in the afternoon. So, she naturally led Marianne to decide on the location to eat on the grounds that she wanted to taste the local street food in Hong Kong.
Marianne had never expected that Charlie would also be here.
This caused her to panic.
Although she had complained that Charlie had not told her the truth and that Charlie was too harsh toward her father, all she could think about was Charlie ever since he had returned home.
She was also worried that if she failed to talk about this matter with Charlie, she might not have the opportunity to meet with Charlie ever again in the future after he left Hong Kong.
So, she took the initiative to contact Kathleen to invite her to have a meal together.
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