Alice temporarily didn't know what to say but only froze.
Manfred became quiet, after a moment, he gave light laughter.
“Charlotte?”
Alice, “... You called the wrong name.”
She had not used this name for a long time, but Manfred still called her that name in the past time they met.
When she answered, Manfred heaved a deep sigh.
“Whether I have called the wrong name, you contacted me at last.”
Alice, “...”
“Ever since I saw you in the supermarket, I've been sad that you didn't want to recognize me. So I've been waiting for you to get in touch, and now you did contact me.”
Wait for her to contact him?
Alice sneered, “So you did that to make me take the initiative to contact you?”
“Charlotte, do you think I'm mean?”
More than mean…
Alice did not speak that out but said unhappily, “What are you trying to do? What is your purpose?”
After a long silence, Manfred said helplessly.
“I want to see you.”
“Can we meet at the cafe at the corner of Xinyu Street tomorrow?”
Should she say yes? Alice remembered her promise to Kennedy. She told him tomorrow was the weekend and she would go out, so that he could have some rest.
There was no answer from her. But Manfred waited quietly and patiently for her reply.
As Manfred thought Alice would not answer, she agreed.
“Ok. I have something to ask you by the way.”
After hanging up the phone, Alice nest in her bed and checked the information about Blue Sky Company with a laptop.
After a careful check, she found that this company was registered three years ago. Although the time of establishment was only three years, because the person who registered the company was Manfred, the company was in full bloom no matter in operation, or other things.
In the process of checking, Alice noticed that Manfred changed his surname to register his company. What happened?
When she married into the Moore family, she found that Kennedy was not in the same boat with Manfred and Reynold. And she married with Kennedy, so she could only be in the same boat with Kennedy.
But she didn't expect that Manfred would do so many things for her.
She knew it had been wrong of her to recognize him when she came back, but so what if she recognized him?
She was no longer his sister-in-law.
She didn't want to get along with him as a girl friend.
Thinking of that, Alice closed her laptop and closed her eyes tiredly.
It was time to go to bed.
The next day Alice woke up, when she opened her eyes, she found that she got cold sweat on her forehead.
She dreamed all night last night.
Because Manfred suddenly appeared in her life, so in her dream there was not only Kennedy, but also Manfred.
Manfred reached out his hand to her in her dream, and his voice was as warm as spring.
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