As soon as Cheney had finished speaking, the door was opened from the outside.
"How did Kitty get here? I was holding it just now, but then it ran off all of a sudden." A woman walked into the room and looked at Cheney, who was holding the cat. When she saw Hestia, she froze for a moment and raised her eyebrows.
"It seems like you've prepared a surprise for me, my love."
Hestia blinked and looked at Cheney. Cheney cleared her throat and said somewhat helplessly, "Take a closer look. Isn't this the person you asked us to find before?"
With long and lustrous hair, and minimal yet refined makeup, the woman was undoubtedly the most stunning among those of her kind that Hestia had encountered. However, her speech contained a hint of roughness, which clashed with her outward appearance and created a sense of contradiction.
Vivienne Scarlett measured Hestia up and down. After that, she took her phone out and compared Hestia with the photo on it repeatedly, nodding as she did so.
"You're Hesper Rivera?"
Hestia deduced that Vivienne was another one of Hesper's "old acquaintances." However, it appeared that Vivienne had not actually met Hesper before, despite her search for her. Though Vivienne seemed polite, Hestia couldn't afford to be complacent.
"I'm Hestia. You're not the first person who took me for her."
After a thorough consideration, Hestia chose not to disclose everything to Vivienne since she and "Hesper" were entirely separate individuals at present.
Vivienne did not seem to suspect anything, She turned to Cheney and said somewhat smugly, "I forgot to tell you earlier, Hesper has been found. Although the Lanes kept their lips sealed, with my relationship with Matthew, it was easy to find out this information."
Hestia lifted her eyebrows.
Hestia pulled up Matthew's account and directly made a video call with him.
Matthew answered quickly as expected, but Hestia did not want him to know what she was doing, so she just called out his name, letting Cheney and Vivienne hear his voice. After hanging up the phone, Hestia looked up.
"Is that enough?"
Vivienne fiddled with her hair and said shrewdly, "You don't want Matthew to know that you're here, but you voluntarily revealed your identity to us. Let me guess… Are you investigating something behind Matthew's back?"
"Yes, I am." Hestia did not beat around the bush with them. "As I said, I've lost my memories, and my life isn't the same as it is in Matthew's memory. Although I trust him, I also have my own things to do."
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