Mark seemed pretty free in the afternoon, so he didn’t go out, but sat on the sofa, working on his laptop.
Arianne yawned incessantly. She couldn’t help but try to find a topic to talk about so that she could stay awake. Somehow, she ended up slipping into the matter that Charles had previously talked about. “Do you really have a younger brother?”
Mark’s hand stiffened. His expression turned gloomy. “Do you think that’s possible? If that were true, he would have come knocking on the door for a share of the family fortune long ago.”
Realizing that she had put her foot in her mouth, she was now too afraid to say anything more. Drowsiness was slowly taking over when her phone suddenly received a message: ‘I’m in Jolague City.’
Jolague City was the city that she and Mark were currently visiting. Who sent that message? How did they know that she was here?
Her heart raced. After lining up all possibilities, she came up with a bold guess. The person behind that number was Will...
She glanced at Mark guiltily and confirmed that he wasn’t paying attention to her before replying to the message with a question: ‘Who are you?’
The reply came very quickly: ‘Will Sivan. I’m at Josie’s Coffee Place. Would you like to join me?’
She replied to him with a “mm”, then quickly deleted the message.
After a while, when her emotions were more stable, she spoke up. “Mark, can I go out for a walk? I’m a little bored…”
Mark was completely focused on his task. “Go ahead, but don’t go too far,” he said without looking up from his screen. “You’d feel awkward if I asked Brian to go with you, so you’re on your own. Turn on your navigation app if you get lost, and if you really can’t find your way, call a cab. Remember the name of the hotel.”
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