“Someone did sit on the sofa after you left.”
Lupa furrowed her brow and leaned over to look at the surveillance footage.
“Who sat there? How many people?”
Although the front desk attendant broke the rules once to check the surveillance footage for Bethan, she did not dare let Bethan take a look at the surveillance footage.
She looked at the footage once again, raised her head, and smiled at Bethan.
“Miss, I understand you must be anxious to look for your lost item, but according to the rules, we’re not allowed to reveal our customer’s information to others.”
She looked at Bethan seriously.
“I have an idea. These two customers are in the hot spring right now. Why don’t I go in and ask if they saw your lost item? Is that alright?”
Bethan nodded. “Thank you very much.”
Frankly speaking, she preferred to ask herself since the front desk attendant had never seen Gwen’s pendant. She was afraid the front desk attendant did not know how to describe it well.
However, as the front desk attendant said, the rules of the resort prohibited it. The front desk attendant had been kind to her, and she did not want to cause trouble for her. The front desk attendant smiled when Bethan agreed with the suggestion. She turned around and went inside.
“Please excuse me.”
At that moment, Kate and Steven had finished freshening up. They were sitting together and resting in the resting room, having coffee Kate furrowed her brow when she heard a knock at the door. She stood up and opened the door.
“What’s the matter?”
The front desk attendant quickly told Kate what happened.
“A customer came and said they lost something on the sofa in the lobby. You and your partner had sat there for a while, so I’m wondering if both of you saw a pendant made out of an abalone shell?”
A pendant? Kate furrowed her brow and looked at the front desk attendant annoyingly.
“We didn’t see any pendant.”
Kate then made a move to close the door when Steven, who overheard the conversation, stood up to stop Kate from closing the door.
“Is she here looking for a pendant?”
Kate nodded and looked at Steven helplessly.
“But we didn’t see anything at all…”
Before she could finish her sentence, Steven took out a pendant made out of an abalone shell from his pocket. He walked over to the door and gave the pendant to the front desk attendant.
“Is it this one?”
The front desk attendant had never seen the pendant before. However, it did look like the one Bethan mentioned from the shape, color, and pattern mentioned. “I’m not sure.”
She smiled and accepted the pendant Steven passed over.
“Why don’t I bring it back to show them? If it’s their lost pendant, I’ll return it to them. If not, I’ll bring it back for you.”
“There’s no need to bring it back,” interjected Kate before Steven could answer.
She looked at the pendant in the front desk attendant’s hand with contempt. It was just some cheap pendant that anyone could buy in the tourist area near the church in Merchant City. She saw it in Merchant City before.
Those pendants were just a gimmick the seller in the tourist area thought of. They would pursue tourists and say that these pendants could bring luck, peace, and help those who wear them to find the right person for their lives.
Kate saw it before. The first thought she had when she saw those pendants was that they were just some cheap things that people buy to make their kids happy.
Nonetheless, Luke actually wanted to buy for Gwen when they were there. Yes, Luke, who had always been mature and despised those things, wanted to buy it for Gwen.
She looked at the pendant again as those thoughts surfaced in her mind. Perhaps the one person who would think this cheap pendant was precious and would search everywhere for it was Gwen, that idiot.
Kate’s mood lifted when she thought of that idiot. When she was in Merchant City, Luke would solemnly tell her he had a girlfriend no matter when she tried to get close to Luke He wanted her to have respect for him and herself.
She looked at the man beside her.
The tides have turned. Gwen never thought she would lose her other half after the surgery, while Kate would soon be engaged to Steven and become Mrs. Hughes!
When she thought about how she would soon sleep in the same bed with Steven, waking up to see his handsome face every morning…she felt like her life was full of hope!
After the front desk attendant left, Steven paused and wanted to say something before noticing how happy Kate looked. Thus, he went back to sit on the chair and poured himself more coffee, asking, “What are you smiling about?”
“Nothing.”
Kate regained her senses and looked at the handsome man behind her.
“I was just thinking that the pendant looks so cheap; like it was bought from a souvenir shop. You could probably buy one with a few bucks. I don’t understand why someone would treat it as a precious item and search for it everywhere when it’s lost.”
She truly could not comprehend it.
Steven curled his lips into a smile. “Maybe the pendant is that important to them.”
He poured another glass of coffee for Kate and gave it to her.
“Drink it while it’s hot.”
Kate was thrilled to see how thoughtful Steven was. She bit her lip and looked at him with gentle eyes.
“Thank you.”
Although she replied with a simple ‘thank you’, her heart was overwhelmed by Steven’s gesture.
‘I made the right choice. If I wasn’t decisive, how would I get myself a good man like Steven?’
Steven, too, smiled happily when he saw how happy Kate was. He picked up his cup and took a sip.
“Oh, right.”
He cocked his head and looked at Kate. “I saw Brettley Morrison this morning.”
Brettley Morrison. He noticed Kate’s back shivered when he mentioned that name. He furrowed his brow and asked tentatively, “Why are you so afraid to hear that name? Did you do any bad thing to him when you were in Merchant City?”
Kate’s face flushed white even more. She quickly drank the coffee to calm herself down. After a while, she looked up at Steven with a serious face.
“No. You know the reason I went to Merchant City was to look for medicine and doctors for you. How would a nobody like me be in contact with a bigshot like Brettley Morrison?”
For some reason, Steven felt like what Kate said made sense. He looked at Kate again suspiciously. “Are you sure you don’t know Brettley Morrison?”
Something was telling him Kate was hiding something from him.
“Since you saw Brettley Morrison this morning…”
Kate was relieved when Steven stopped asking about her trip to Merchant City and thus tried to change the topic.
“Did he have any special reaction when he saw you?”
“Special reaction?”
Steven frowned and recalled the business meeting he had with Brettley. He then stared at Kate.
“Nothing special, other than what you told me that he said I look like an old friend of his.”
Steven was still baffled by this when he recalled the moment.
“Luckily, you told me Brettley Morrison likes to say that to pull the string, or I might’ve believed him when he said that!”
Kate narrowed her eyes.
“So Brettley Morrison himself said you look like his old friend?”
“Yes.”
Steven paused while feeling lucky.
“But, I didn’t fall for it. I told him that I don’t like to pull any strings when I’m talking about business.”
Kate was surprised, and her eyes could not hide how happy she was.
“What then?”
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