Winnie leaned on Brian's shoulder. Because it was fictitious, she just wanted to relieve herself.
Winnie sighed, then closed her eyes and began to speak.
“I don't know why you always find fault with me. I tried to avoid you, we have ended our relationship. Why do you still care who I drink with?"
"Aren't you tired? There's so much for you to do, and you're here to fight me. Are you afraid of me finding a stepfather for the children? Don't worry, I can do what I promise you. Let alone Leo, I will never even make Brian the children's stepfather."
Winnie was not satisfied with Brian's criticism. She knew what to do and did not need irrelevant people to advise her.
“I'm the father, so I have a right to mind your business. Your impropriety in your conduct will have bad impact on the children."
Brian heard grievance and helplessness in Winnie's tone, but she had been enduring. Such forbearance made Brian distressed.
"You are father, I am the mother, and it is the only relationship between us. You have the right to control the children but not me."
"There is no indiscretion in my life...You are my first man and you are still the only one. Am I not disciplined?"
"Well, it's no use telling you that. You're the last person who trusts me."
"Talking with you is so depressing. Don't say anything now. Just let me lean on you for a while."
Winnie felt heartache and knew whether in real life or in the illusion, Brian was not suitable for her. No matter where he appeared, he could successfully hurt her heart.
Winnie did not hear Brian’s voice again and she was silent.
The next day.
Winnie was awakened by the sound of a phone call and picked up the phone in a daze.
"Hello."
"Miss Chambers, I'm a police officer. I need your help."
The police officer's voice sobered Winnie up immediately.
"What is it?"
“Penny has been clamouring to see you in prison, and tried to kill herself with a toothbrush a few days ago, when the prison police refused her request.”
“We have no control over her except to put her in a room alone, and now she is on hunger strike, saying she will starve to death unless she sees you.”
"Miss Chambers, even though she made a mistake, she is still a fresh life. We want to meet her request. Could you meet her?"
The policeman asked Winnie's opinion humanely.
Winnie hesitated for a moment.
She thought Richard had been caught, but it was that Penny wanted to see her.
"If she tries to kill herself if I see her, wouldn't I be a sinner?"
Winnie said cautiously.
"No, we made that clear to her, and it's all on tape and video. It's nobody's business if she killed herself."
"Miss Chambers, I know what you are worried about. As long as you don't say something to stimulate her suicide, it has nothing to do with you. Besides, the prison police are nearby, and we will accompany you to go in, so that your safety will not be threatened."
The police had been ready, waiting for Winnie to meet Penny.
It would have been illegal to do so, but in order not to see Penny die like that, they had to make an exception.
"All right, I'll see her."
Winnie put down the phone and sank into her thoughts.
Actually, she was also afraid that Penny would make tricks, after all, she did not repent at the last moment. But she was reassured by what the police had said.
Actually, she decided to see her with a trace of pity, to see if she was OK, to see if she had reflection after being restricted by the wall and realized that she had done something wrong.
Winnie stretched to get out of bed and then she realized that she was not in her bedroom.
She sat up as if awakened from a dream. She looked around and realized that it was the hilltop villa.
The hilltop villa? Brian? How did she get here? Was Brian back?
Had it not been a vision that she saw last night? Was it the real Brian? Was the dream she had last night true?
Thinking of this, Winnie looked down at herself, as expected, she did not wear clothes, and the got up, flurried.
"Crazy, crazy, I must be crazy. How can I be here again? Winnie, you should never come here again."
Winnie scolded herself as she put on her clothes.
"I absolutely can't drink anymore, or I will choke myself to death."
Winnie hurriedly put on clothes, only to find that there was a note on the bedside table left by Brian.
"I want to talk with you. Wait for me downstairs the company at noon. We will talk when we meet."
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