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Grace pressed her lip slightly and said, “That’s the only photo I
have of this floral dress.” It also carried a rare nostalgia for her.
That was because the floral dress had been given to her by her grandmother!
“Great.” A smile flickered at the corners of his mouth. “The photo carries more meaning now.”
.” She was speechless. What was he talking about? “Why don’t I get you another photo?” she said, settling for second best.
“No, I only want this photo of you,” he said, leaning forward to touch her face. “I never change what I like. It’s the same with photos. It’s the same with people too.”
Her face was reflected in his dark pupils, and that elegant voice seemed to surround her ears…
Grace was unable to get the photo back from Jason and had to admit defeat.
However, she still wondered why he wanted that particular photo of her. Was it that cute that he wanted to keep it?
However, the problem was that people like him had seen a lot of cute people. Was the photo of her when she was little so cute that he had to keep one for himself?
At the moment, however, meeting Lina Sweeney was the most important thing to her.
When she was about to leave, Jason asked the driver to take her there.
She knew from experience that it was useless to refuse. Once he had made up his mind, there was little room for negotiation.
Once she got into the car, Grace told the driver where to go.
As a result, she arrived half an hour earlier for what was supposed to be an hour-long trip.
Grace walked into a fast food restaurant. She took a seat, ordered a drink that cost six dollars, and sent Lina Sweeney a message.
While she was waiting for her best friend, she casually looked through the transparent French window and watched several food delivery riders running in and out of the restaurant from time to time with their food delivery orders.
Food deliveries… Grace felt a twinge of emotion. Grace’s driver’s license had been canceled, but that did not mean she could not ride a motorcycle. Besides, the food delivery job was distributed according to the work done. She would not get a basic salary, but the more she did, the more she would get paid.
If she could pa** the recruitment process with her criminal record, then perhaps delivering food could be a good occupation for her.
If she kept taking leave from her job at the Sanitation Service Center, Claire Watts’s workload would increase greatly. It was like pushing someone else to help her finish her work.
Besides, the salary at the Sanitation Service Center was fixed. Now that she needed to bear a quarter of her grandmother’s medical expenses, she was short of money….
“What are you thinking?” Lina Sweeney’s voice rang in her ears.
Grace instantly came back to her senses and looked at her friend who had already arrived. “I’m wondering whether I should be a food delivery rider,” Grace said.
Lina Sweeney was shocked. “You want to deliver food? It’s hard work, and you’ll receive complaints from customers. Women rarely work as food delivery riders and don’t have the stamina to keep up.”
Usually, these jobs were done by men.
“At least I won’t drag others down,” Grace said. “Doing a good job or a bad job is my business. It’s not like the Sanitation Service Center where if you ask for leave, you have to get someone else to do the work for you.”
“That’s true,” Lina Sweeney said. As if she had thought of something, she then said, “By the way, why are you here so early today? Are you on leave?”
She remembered that her best friend’s off-duty time was later.
“Yes, I hurt my hand, and I had to take a few days off, so I thought I might as well just change my job,” Grace said.
Lina Sweeney realized that her friend’s fingers were covered with gauze. “How did your hands become like that? What happened?” she asked hastily.
Grace did not keep her best friend in the dark but briefly told her what had happened last night.
Lina Sweeney listened, gritting her teeth. “How can there be a father like yours? Even if he wants to play favorites with Evelyn, he can’t do that to you! He knows how much that album means to you, and he still burned it!”
Grace laughed at herself. “Yeah, a man like that is my father!”
Now, her mood had changed to indifference. After all, she had already known that her father’s heart no longer held a single affection for her mother, let alone blood ties.
Otherwise, her father would have visited her when she was in prison.
“Does your hand hurt?” Lina Sweeney asked with concern.
“It’s fine,” Grace said. “The bandages make it look worse. I didn’t feel any pain today and was able to carry things myself.”
Lina Sweeney breathed a sigh of relief and ordered a meal.
As they ate and talked, Grace found out what was going on with the witness her best friend mentioned on the phone. A colleague at Lina’s design studio had posted a video to their co-workers’ group chat. From there, Lina saw the witness who testified back then.
The man was the newly married husband of Lina’s colleague’s relative’s daughter, and he now lived in S City.
Lina Sweeney asked his name casually, just in case, but the colleague did not know his name. The colleague only kne that his last name was You.
There were not many people with the last name ‘You’
Lina Sweeney played the video for Grace.
It was a video of the newlyweds being teased. The video was full of joy and laughter. Grace’s eyes were fixed on the groom in the video.
The groom’s face was full of happiness as he fulfilled some of the demands with the heckling of the others around him.
It looked like a normal festive video, but the only unusual one was the groom.
Grace stared at the face as her mind seemed to stir up a storm at sea. Up till now, she could still remember the man who had coldly testified against her in court. He had said that he saw her drinking and that he even persuaded her not to drive, but she refused and drove away obstinately!
However, these things never happened.
She had never even met this person before. They just happened to be dining in the same restaurant, and he just happened to sit at the table next to her.
Even now she did not understand. Why would he say that in court? Did someone ask him to say that? Was there someone who wanted to pin the blame on her?
However, it was precisely because the witness had no stake in her that the judge took the witness’ testimony more seriously.
Especially when… there were more than one witness.
“Is it him?” Lina Sweeney asked.
“Yes, it should be,” Grace said. “Can you find out where the man is now?”
“It shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll ask my colleague later,” Lina Sweeney said. “Are you going to look for him in S City?”
“I’ll at least investigate some of the basic things first before I go. We’ve lost track of the witnesses back then. He is the only lead we have so far,” Grace said.
Lina Sweeney understood her best friend’s concern. She was afraid that this clue would be gone when the time came.
After all, the accident was so bizarre with so many witnesses testifying against Grace at the same time. It was as if there was some invisible network plotting at the back.
“All right. Let’s get this straight first,” Lina Sweeney said.