Tremaine wanted to make a phone call, but couldn't.
The night before, Yesseca had made him so angry.
Why should he be the one to call her?
It was Yesseca who had provoked him.
Tremaine put his phone away.
Yesseca was back in Agaphen City.
Yesseca had felt so guilty last night, but then grew furious in the morning.
She thought Tremaine had kissed her secretly last night.
And looked at what happened!
He wrote "dumb goose" on her forehead and even doodled a goose on her cheek.
Yesseca was so angry, she felt like she was going to explode.
She felt incredibly wronged.
In a fit of anger, she had run back to Agaphen City. She had switched on her mobile phone and would take it out several times to check on it. She was afraid that her phone battery would die for some reason.
She was waiting for Tremaine to call her.
She had decided that Tremaine should call her and apologize to her before she would go back to him.
Otherwise...
She wouldn't go back at all.
She was holding a photo of Lothar in her apartment.
She was speaking to Lothar's photo.
"Lothar, that man hasn't called me yet. I just want to turn off my phone and make it hard for him to contact me, so that he can't find me."
The photo of Lothar was smiling at her, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.
Yesseca shook her head and said, "But I still can't do that, because sometimes he's very good to me. Now that so many people are against me being with him, he's still holding on, so I shouldn't be too heartless to him."
Saying this, Yesseca's eyes wavered.
Tremaine must have been under a lot of pressure lately. It now seemed wrong for her to have run away. Was she causing more trouble for Tremaine?
She would be causing him even more stress for doing this.
But then Yesseca thought, was Tremaine really under so much pressure?
If he was stressed out, why would he write those three words on her head in the middle of the night, and even doodle a goose on her cheek?
Yesseca bit her lip.
When she looked at him, it seemed like he wasn't under any pressure at all!
But after thinking about this, the image of Hogan running towards the Quartley Palace to look for Tremaine appeared in her mind.
Yesseca's mind was a mess.
She then turned towards the photo of Lothar and said, "How about this, I won't lose my temper with him. As long as he calls me, I'll go home right away. How about that?"
There was still no response from the photo.
Yesseca assumed that 'Lothar' had agreed.
She carefully placed the photo back under her pillow.
"Okay Lothar, I'll be going now. I still have to see Selina. Goodbye," Yesseca said as she made to leave.
She had always kept Lothar's photo at her apartment and didn't bring it with her to Nashaland. This was because she knew that Lothar's soul was definitely much more comfortable staying in her apartment.
An hour later, Yesseca arrived at the Perry family villa.
Before entering the villa, she took out her phone and checked it again.
She had no missed calls or messages.
Yesseca looked up at the sky.
It wasn't very late in the day. Tremaine probably hadn't returned to the presidential office yet and hadn't found out that she was missing. That's why he hadn't called her yet.
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