Yesseca was trying to hide the meeting from Lothar and Selina because she could tell that the person was someone who was very powerful. She was worried that both Lothar and Selina would get dragged into the mess.
Selina noticed Yesseca's avoidance of the topic and realized that something wasn't right.
As for Lothar, he was completely deceived.
Yesseca had always been a good child. She had never lied to him.
Lothar patted Yesseca's shoulder. "I will always come back for you, you don't need to worry and go looking for me. When I thought you went missing, I was so worried for you."
Yesseca nodded. "Yes, I know better now."
Selina gestured with her eyes for Lothar to get out of the room so that she could talk to him.
Selina then said uneasily, "Lothar, I think something's not right. Yesseca hasn't looked you in the eyes since she came back. I think she was doing something else when she went missing just now."
Lothar immediately refuted the statement.
"That's impossible. Yesseca never lies. She's always been a good girl. Besides, what else could she have been doing?"
Selina thought about it and found that what Lothar said was reasonable.
Lothar was Yesseca's older brother, so she figured that he knew Yesseca better than she did.
Moreover, based on what Selina knew of Yesseca, she believed that Yesseca wasn't the type to lie as she was a very meek girl.
"Then, I must have thought too much."
Since she was already at the hospital, Selina decided to stay with Lothar and Yesseca for awhile. She left when Matthew came over to pick her up at around six in the evening.
"Why are you at the hospital right now?" Matthew asked after she got on the car.
Selina explained what had happened.
After that, she asked, "Did Saoirse get in touch with you today?"
"No."
There was a ripple in Selina's eyes. Since they'd met that day, Saoirse had never called again.
"Isn't it a good thing?" Matthew replied.
"That's good. It would be great if it remains so for the entire time," Selina sighed.
Matthew's eyes flashed with an unidentifiable emotion. "Maybe Saoirse gave it some thought and found that staying here for half a year would be meaningless. Maybe that's why she has not been contacting me."
Selina looked at Matthew with confusion.
Matthew explained, "Even if she stayed here for half a year, it would be useless as nothing would change. Perhaps, Saoirse understood that after signing the agreement and changed her mind."
Selina said with a tired voice, "If she really thought so, she wouldn't have proposed to stay here for half a year and wanted you to stay and spend time with her for that entire time."
Selina figured that Saoirse had still not given up about it and was still trying to give it a go.
"Selina." Matthew said, "Human change their mind all the time. Perhaps, something or someone initiated the change."
Selina's eyes narrowed.
After a moment, she gave a helpless smile. "I hope that what you said is true. I hope that even though she signed the half-year agreement with you, she did indeed change her mind."
Despite what she said, she didn't believe that that was the case.
If Saoirse's mind could be changed so easily, she probably would not have went through the hassle of persuading Matthew to sign the half- year agreement with her.
Time passed by. In the blink of an eye, nearly a month had passed.
Saoirse had not contacted Matthew even once.
And after such a long time, Selina had also changed her mind.
She'd believed in what Matthew had said.
She believed that Saoirse might have realized that it was futile even with the half- year agreement, and that she'd given up. This was a reasonable explanation.
Selina was delighted and joyful over that fact.
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