Heaton Fudd judged the woman in front of him calmly. “Sam Joyce, you still haven’t answered my question.”
Sam Joyce answered calmly, “Ten years ago, when I fell into the sea, I must have been fortunate as I was saved by others. However, before that, I bumped my head pretty hard on the reef thus suffering memory loss. Since then, I have been going for treatments with a doctor. It was so coincidental that my doctor recommended a psychologist named Lain Heidy. After she knew who I was, she told me everything. Recently, I have been able to recall quite a number of things. Doctor Heidy told me about Miss Mont. The first time I met Miss Mont, she recognised who I was. Heaton, was it you who showed her my photo?”
“No.”
When she saw Heaton Fudd’s cold attitude, Sam Joyce asked apologetically, “Tonight, I… Did I interrupt your date with Miss Mont?”
Heaton Fudd got up and said in a deep voice, “Sam Joyce, I have a lot of questions for you, but I have something more important now. I’ll excuse myself first.”
“Heaton, hold up.”
Sam Joyce stood up, walked in front of him, raised her head and asked while looking at him, “Heaton, you seem… to not welcome me back for a little bit. Is it because my sudden appearance that offended and frightened you?”
“Sam Joyce, I am very happy that you are still alive. I believe that if Yanni Quain knows that you are still alive, he will be the happiest.”
Yanni Quain?
Sam Joyce was stunned for a moment before she quickly said, “Oh, I am not prepared to appear before Yanni. I... I’m afraid that I will frighten him.”
Sam Joyce had always addressed Yanni Quain as “Yan” and had never addressed him as “Yanni”. He clearly remembered this because the three of them were always together. Sam Joyce only had Yanni Quain in her heart and eyes. Her sight also always followed Yanni Quain. He was suddenly suspicious when she addressed him as Yanni with such unfamiliarity.
It may have been that Sam Joyce had lost her memory and forgotten her feelings toward Yanni Quain.
After all, the woman in front of him was no different from Sam Joyce. Her face had no sign of plastic surgeries and her face was very natural and fresh.
To his knowledge, Sam Joyce did not have any twin sister.
…
When Heaton Fudd came out from the Banyan Tree Hotel, he walked toward the car while trying to call Verian Mont.
The number could not be connected and there was only a machine-like female voice at the other end of the line. “Sorry, the number you dialed is unavailable…”
Heaton Fudd’s facial expression darkened. After he boarded the car, he drove to the Swallow Bay Villa.
In the Swallow Bay Villa, only the standing light was switched on in the living room.
When Heaton Fudd entered from the yard, he called out to her, “Riana!”
Nobody answered him beside the lonely echoes.
When Heaton Fudd saw the diamond ring on the table, his heart suddenly sank.
Verian Mont’s abnormal behavior recently flashed through his mind.
She suddenly went to the Fudd Group, hugged him, acted coquettishly to him and said that she missed him. Yesterday, she asked him what would be his reaction if Sam Joyce was still alive and even begged him to name their child…
Why did he not realise that Verian Mont was behaving so abnormally?
Heaton Fudd held on to the diamond ring so tightly until the knuckles of his hands were greenish white.
He made a call to Kush Xavier. “Send someone to find where Verian Mont is now.”
Kush Xavier on the other side was stunned. He did not imagine that Verian Mont would suddenly disappear in the middle of the night…
Heaton Fudd went to the bedrooms on the second floor. In the master bedroom, the daily necessity items that she used were still there. Some of her clothes were missing but even her identification card and household registration book were not there too.
Those signs indicated that Verian Mont did not run away from home and not playing the game of being missing. She really made a long term decision to leave without saying goodbye.
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