He nodded and waited for my following words.
I pressed my lips, “Dennis and you are best friends and he needs such a friendship. I don’t want to see you break up.”
I paused and continued, “you can claim Clarrie as your daughter after she is eighteen years old. And it will be up to her whether to resume the relationship with you. And before that, you can see her anytime. By anytime, I mean literally. Ans she can go back to the Bennet family for several days if she can be taken good care of.”
He didn’t expect it and somewhat didn’t believe it, “Are you serious?”
I nodded, “I have made up this decision, not for you but for Dennis. Because I don’t want to ruin his friendship. I hope you can still be good friends.”
He was surprised and pause for quite a while before he finally said, “Thank you, Clara.’
Men talked much less than women.
I lowered my head, “You don’t need to thank me. Although I don’t know exactly how much you love Clarrie I can feel you care about her. And Diana would be happy with it too.”
I said what needed to be said.
He said, ‘I want to take her to H Town. I am not taking her to meet her family but I promised Diana that I would take Clarrie there if possible.”
I frowned, “You can if not too long.”
“It is not long. Three days.”
“Okay.”
Yeah, I couldn’t keep Clarrie to myself forever. She would grow up and have her own life.
Mario left and I went back into the bedroom of Clarrie’s.
After Folly’s wedding, I suddenly became a celebrity in this city.
Maybe Folly did it. Or maybe Link did it.
I received a call from Folly when I was in Clarrie’s room and she was sleeping.
I left the room and went into the sitting room.
She said, “I found that box. It was in Luna’s hands and she said she would give it to you. I will post it to you later.”
I said, “Thank you so much, Folly.”
She replied, “you don’t need to say that stuff to me.”
And she went on, “I wonder if I should tell you something.”
“What?”
She paused and continued, “At my wedding ceremony, Dennis and Hank fought. They talked and Dennis seemed angry. And they fought. Zack told me that.”
I thought of his strange deeds of Dennis. He drank unusually much.
“Clara, are you listening?”
‘Yes, ah, where do you take your honeymoon?”
“I talked with Zack and we decided on the Maldives. It has a clement climate.”
I heard a sound from Clarrie’s bedroom and said to folly, “Have a good time and Clarrie needs me now.”
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