“Um.” Victoria replied her faintly.
“Is he willing to stop?” Loredana asked eagerly.
Victoria let out a deep breathe and shook her head, “No, he seems to find out Cormac’s identity, but I won’t let him to continue his investigation.”
Loredana was just about to say that Cormac knew about it when the phone on the dining table vibrated.
It showed the phone number of Boyce Shawn.
Loredana looked at Victoria, “I’ll take a call first.”
She got up and walked to the window, pressing the answer button, “Hello?”
“It’s me. I’ve found out what Cormac asked me to investigate.”
She felt nervous and she straightened her back, “Go ahead.”
“It’s not clear in a sentence or two. Let’s meet and talk,” said Boyce.
She thought for a moment and said, “Okay.”
After hanging up the phone, she put the phone into her pocket, walked to the dining room and saw Victoria was looking at the sea cucumbers inside the bowl. She smiled and asked, “Mom, you’re hungry too, right?”
As she spoke, she went to the kitchen, got a clean bowl and scooped her own sea cucumber for her, “Don’t mind, it’s untouched.”
Victoria grabbed her hand, “I’m not hungry, you eat it. Look at how thin you’re. You shouldn’t get yourself into this mess.”
Loredana said yes.
Thinking of Cormac’s temper, she didn’t want to have anything to do with Charles.
Victoria entered the house while Loredana held her breath and swallowed the sea cucumbers, then drank some water and went out after putting on her clothes. Boyce sent her the address where they would meet and she drove there.
It was a bar and there weren’t many people inside as it was daytime. It was quiet and he was drinking in his seat.
When he saw her enter, he asked, “What would you like to drink?”
“Just give me juice.” She sat down.
He asked the bartender to pour a glass of juice. She looked at him and asked, “Why did you choose this place?”
“It’s quiet at this time and I want to have a drink also.” He took a sip of his drink.
When he put the glass down, he didn’t remove it, fiddling with it, “Shameless couldn’t be used to describe how nasty and insidious people are.”
She asked him cautiously, “Are you irritated?”
Otherwise, how else would he feel such emotion.
He didn’t say anything, but handed her the file bag he had placed on the table, “Read it yourself.”
She probably guessed what was inside in her mind.
Looking at his expression, she was afraid that the matter wasn’t good.
She opened the file with curiosity and somewhat apprehension.
There were a dozen pages of information about Phoebe Lewis’s past and a few photos inside.
The photos showed the picture of Phoebe and the scene of her and a man going in and out of high-class places.
She put the photos down and perused the documents inside.
She read through page by page. The further she read, the more her heart sank.
Armand Bernie said Phoebe told him that she left because she couldn’t give birth and didn’t want to implicate him. However, have a look at how many times she had gone to the hospital to have abortion over these years.
“How can she be so shameless? Is she still a woman?” Boyce grimaced. If it wasn’t his remaining sanity telling him that good men didn’t fight with women, he would have gone to beat her up and asked her how could she be so shameless.
She had left for a rich man last time.
She became a mistress for someone else!
The more Boyce thought about it, the angrier he was.
What he was angry about wasn’t that she had done these things, but was that she still came back to Armand after she had done these things.
Is she wanting Armand to be the receiver?
After reading the last page, Loredana tossed the document on the table as she knew why Phoebe would come back. It’s nothing more than she was now old and decrepit, and that man had married a wife, so she lost her hope and came back to try to win back Armand.
Boyce loaded up the documents, “I’ve to go and look for Armand before he gets cheated.”
“Wait.” She called out to him.
“It’s not profound if you go and tell him, rather than he found out himself!” She squinted.
That man seemed to be very rich, otherwise he wouldn’t have been able to keep a mistress for so long as keeping a woman was a waste of money.
She thought Cormac may know this man as he knew some rich people.
After she had a countermeasure in her mind, she looked at him and said, “I’ll go first.”
He called out to her, “Don’t forget to call me.”
He also wanted to see how would Armand look like when he realized the true colours of Phoebe.
Loredana said, “I knew.”
She got into the car and she didn’t go to the shop, but went to find Cormac.
Cormac was in a meeting, so she went to his office to wait for him.
The spacious and sunny space made her to feel comfortable in it. She walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows and looked down on the busiest part of the city. Even in the daytime, it was still as brilliant as rainbow without the rendering of neon lights.
The light outside fell in circles and she touched it. Unfortunately, no one could catch the light.
When he ended his meeting and pushed the door open, he saw the woman standing in the halo with her slim back, as if she was the heroine in a comic.
He lightened his footsteps and approached her, hugging her from behind as his chin lowered to her shoulder, “You miss me?”
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
Celsie was tired of being labeled as an introvert, workaholic, and dull virgin by her friends. Determined to prove them wrong, she made a bet that she would do something daring on her 25th birthday. Now that the day had arrived, it was time to fulfill her promise. On her daring to-do list, there was one task: a one-night stand with someone.