Roger was a little surprised.
When I went with him, Roger asked me, "What did you say to Shelton? How come he is willing to let you come with me?"
"I told him the truth."
I had a little bit understanding of Shelton.
He seemed to be someone without any sense of securities. So what Shelton wanted to know was the truth.
If I wanted to stay safely by his side, I had to tell him everything.
Instead of going to the round table where Roger had been, we went to the resting area in the corner.
There were large sofas and snacks.
We sat on two sofas separately. I asked him, "Tell me."
"Seth's car incident indeed... has something to do with me." Upon saying so, Roger paused.
Based on what he said, in my opinion, he had admitted that he was the one who had orchestrated Seth's car incident.
"You! Why?"
Even though Seth had been dead for so many years, I couldn't calm down at all after knowing that it was Roger who did it!
Standing up excitedly, I looked at him.
"Calm down," Roger said, "I'll take you to a place first. Of course, you can call Shelton. He surely will be worried if you go with me."
With his hands in his pockets, Roger seemed to look somewhat solemn.
"Where are we going?"
I was a little alert.
Seeing me like this, Roger couldn't help curling up the corner of his lips and smiled, "I've asked you to call Shelton. How come you are afraid that I will screw you up? Let me tell you, I'm just a Husky at best. The real wolf is the one behind you."
His metaphor sounded somewhat funny.
However, I knew that as Roger said, Shelton surely wasn't that simple.
I hesitated for a moment. Then I got up, called Shelton, and left with Roger.
Roger drove us to an independent building downtown. From the outside, the building looked fine. With lights off, it didn't seem to be open.
"Come on, let's go in."
As Roger said, he took out a key and opened the door.
After arriving at the door, he opened the switch door next to him with the key and pushed up most of the power bulbs.
All of a sudden, the lights in the whole building were all lit up!
Standing at the door, I could see that it should be a dance hall that had been furnished exquisitely.
Shelton and I went in with Roger.
I wondered whether it was because it was late at night that it was exceptionally cold in the hall. Moreover, the atmosphere seemed to be rather strange.
We wandered around the dance hall. Sensing the architecture style familiar, I looked up at Roger and said, "Seth was the designer of this place, right?"
Roger nodded, "BINGO!"
"Isn't it good? Why did you hurt him?" I looked at Roger excitedly, "If you weren't satisfied with his design back then, you should have said it directly. After he completed the design, if you thought that it was a waste of money, you could have asked him to start all over. Why did you take his life so lightly?"
After so many years, as I saw Seth's design, all kinds of feelings welled up in my heart!
I walked to Roger and raised my hand to slap him without hesitation, "I want you to pay with your life!"
I didn't slap Roger with much strength. After being slapped by me, Roger didn't move at all.
Furthermore, he didn't seem to be angry at all. Curling up the corner of his lips slightly, he said, "Look at this place more carefully. Is there anything wrong with his design? If it's just that I wasn't satisfied with his design, would I be angry? I had done something to his car a long time ago. And he happed to run into an accident at that time. This means that this kind of thing can backfire."
"Backfire?"
Hearing Roger's words, I understand something.
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