Justin didn’t even know how he got to Villa No. 2. It was only when Cooper stood in front of him that he finally came back to his senses.
“Cooper, it’s really you!”
Overwhelmed with emotions, Justin took a step forward and hugged Cooper.
He knew that Cooper was back long ago, but he didn’t know how to face him and only managed to muster up his courage to meet him today.
In the living room, Nathan was playing with Carmen whereas Cooper and Justin sat down.
“I’ve heard about Celie’s issue and I’ll try my best to help you in every possible way.”
Celine had dissociative identity disorder after being hypnotised by Phantom Wolf. All these years, she had been locked up in the Fletcher Family’s research center while they tried to find a method to suppress her evil personality. However, Celine’s condition had gotten worse. In the past, they could use a certain method to get her to change from her first personality to the second, but now, both personalities were starting to blend into one another.
She was like a beast that was locked up in a cage. Once they let their guards down, she would break free from the cage and kill someone.
Every day, she would alternate between Celine the King of soldiers and Katrina the cold-blooded killer without warning. One second ago, she might be thinking of killing someone but the next second, she might break down because of the thought she had earlier.
Justin didn’t say anything and his eyes were indifferent. When one was suffering too much, they would become as numb as he was now.
Before this, Cooper, too, thought of catching Phantom Wolf and forcing her to tell them the method to recover Sophia’s memory. However, after weighing up the consequences, he gave that idea up.
His daughter had suffered too much and experienced too much darkness and despair. She even suffered from severe depression, but now, she had forgotten all that pain. The only memory left in her was Quinton and his kindness toward her, and that was all she needed to remember.
Losing her memory might actually be a great thing for her.
Besides, it would be difficult to catch Phantom Wolf now unless he showed up himself.
In the kitchen, Sophia hummed a song while cooking vegetables. Seemingly sensing that Cooper was thinking about her, she popped her head out from the kitchen. “Dad, I made your favourite minced meat eggplant.”
Cooper was speechless.
Unable to reject Sophia’s warm hospitality, Justin stayed for dinner. Sophia made simple yet pleasant home cooking dishes, such as shrimp loofah soup, minced meat eggplant, tomato fried egg and a few other dishes, and they were delicious. Even Michael rushed back just in time to drop by for dinner.
After dinner, Sophia sat beside Justin and stared at him mysteriously, to the point that Justin started to become embarrassed.
“Why are you staring at me?”
With her eyes shining brightly, Sophia requested, “Can I touch your face?”
Justin was lost for words.
Sophia touched every part of Justin’s face and she honestly couldn’t find a single scar. Not only that, but his skin was also tender. They had gone to the same hospital so she believed that her face would recover as well as his face!
Justin stayed at her house until it was late night. To be previous, he was forced to stay so that Sophia could touch his face. After she was done with touching his face, she even touched his chest and asked Cooper and Linus to touch it as well.
Cooper had seen Justin’s name in the list of successful cases of that plastic surgery hospital. He knew that Justin’s case was even more severe than Sophia, but both his face and the scars on his body had recovered completely.
Not only did his scar vanish completely, but his skin was also tender. Not bad. It seems like I chose the right hospital.
Even Sophia gained more confidence for her face.
Late at night, Justin finally left with mixed emotions.
Beep, beep…
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