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Suddenly, as they talked, Grace seemed to feel something and looked up to see a parked car not far away. The window of the car was open, and a man was sitting in it looking in their direction.
It was a good-looking man somewhere between a teenager and a young man. He had an androgynous face. It fit well with the feminine beauty that was now in fashion.
His delicate features seemed to have come out of a painting, except that the man’s thin lips were tightly pressed at the moment, and his extremely beautiful black eyes seemed to be tinged with anger.
‘Is this man… angry?’ Grace thought. Judging from the direction of his gaze, he seemed to be annoyed by…
“Grace, I’m talking to you. Do you hear me?” Lina Sweeney’s voice rang in her ears, and Grace came to her senses immediately.
“What were you telling me?” Grace turned her head to look at her best friend.
“I said, did the doctor say when your hand might be healed?” Lina Sweeney said.
“About a week, then I just have to wait for the skin to heal,” Grace said. She then glanced in the direction of the strange man, but both the car and the man were gone.
“What are you looking at?” Lina Sweeney followed her best friend’s gaze. “Is there anything on the street?”
“It’s nothing.” Grace smiled. She was probably a little paranoid…
Even if the man was looking in their direction with a face seemingly full of anger, it did not mean that he was actually looking at them!
“By the way, are you living with Jason now? What’s going on?” Lina Sweeney asked. She had wanted to ask this question ever since she called her best friend last night.
“We’re… sort of living together,” Grace said.
“You’re cohabitating with him?” Lina Sweeney asked.
The word ‘cohabitating’ nearly got Grace to spit the drink out of her mouth.
“No… Not really, I’m just staying for a while. I should be able to move out once my hand gets better,” Grace said quickly.
“What?” Lina Sweeney frowned slightly. “Are you being forced to live with Jason?”
When she thought about it, Jason was responsible for most of her best friend’s miserable experiences in prison. He also had lied to her best friend later on.
Grace hated being lied to. Besides, Jason was probably a trauma she could not erase from her mind.
Grace faked a light-hearted smile. “Not exactly… forced. At least I’m doing pretty well at his place. I broke my hand, so it’s convenient to stay with him. Besides, he has given me a separate room.”
“But…” Lina Sweeney had other concerns.
Grace interrupted and said, “All right, let’s move on to something else. Didn’t you say that your mom has been setting you up on blind dates? Met anyone you like?”
“Don’t even talk about it. I’m trying to figure out a way to escape it. I’m only 27 years old, but my mother seems to think I can’t get married. She said some fortune tellers say that I must get married next year, so I have to find a good match this year. I’d like to kick that fortune teller’s stall,” Lina Sweeney said angrily.
“You haven’t had a crush on anyone all these years?” Grace said. Speaking of which, she did not seem to have seen Lina in love since they first met. Her hobby was probably fangirling over those celebrities.
“Err…” Lina Sweeney touched her nose uneasily when she mentioned this topic.
Something was going on! Grace looked at her best friend curiously. “Is there?”
“I guess so.” Lina Sweeney laughed. “I had a crush on someone back then, but he looked so young. With him, I felt like an old cow eating young gra**. It was kind of an encounter, hmm… It was nice.”
“…” An old cow eating young gra**? Grace was a bit speechless. Her best friend was only 27 years old. “Is he very young?” She asked.
“I guess? He’s quite young.” She shrugged and said, “I met him abroad… Then, oh, never mind, he probably doesn’t even remember what I look like now.”
After all, a handsome boy like him had a lot of girls around him. Would he remember her, someone he had only been with for a few days?
Lina Sweeney thought to herself, ‘It’s enough to just have an experience like that sometimes.”
Grace’s face changed slightly when she heard her best friend say ‘abroad’. She remembered that Lina went abroad only once. That was before her accident. Lina was going to apply for further study at a foreign school, so she went for an interview at the school she was applying for.
It was only later because of her accident that Lina did not even go for the interview and went straight back home.
Speaking of which, it was her fault that Lina lost an opportunity to further her studies. It was also fair to say that she had changed Lina’s fate.
No wonder Lina’s parents were still upset. Even Grace herself felt a lump in her throat every time she thought about it.
Looking at her best friend’s expression right now, Lina Sweeney knew that she was probably thinking of how she did not get to study abroad back then and was feeling guilty. Therefore, she immediately said, “Don’t make a fool of yourself. It’s none of your business that I didn’t go abroad. My grades were just so-so. Even if I went for the interview, the school wouldn’t pick me either!”
“Lina, thank you. Some day, if you need me, I’ll go through fire and water for you!” Grace said seriously.
“You fool.” Lina Sweeney patted her best friend on the shoulder. “Why did you say that? It’s disgusting. You might as well thank me in the future when your case is reversed!”
“Sure.” Grace smiled, but there was a layer of worry in her heart. Even though she was obsessed with reversing her case, but… Could she really reverse it?
If there was such a thing as a man behind the scenes, could they still find him after three years?
After Grace went back to the Reed Residence at night, Jason was sitting in the living room and was staring at something in his hand.
When Grace approached him, it turned out that what he had in his hand was the picture he took from her today.
Seeing that she was back, Jason put away the photo and smiled at her. “You’re back. How was your meeting with your friend?”
“It went quite well,” she said.
“Is the clue your friend gave you about the case useful?” he seemed to ask casually.
“It should be useful, but I don’t know why the witness lied. I’m
I afraid that he will avoid me when I go looking for him, so I want to collect more information about him before making any further plans,” Grace said
Then she looked at Jason as if something was wrong. “Do you believe that I’m not the one who killed your fiancée in that car accident?”
His eyes were fixated on her. “Does it matter whether I believe it?”
She looked shocked before laughing at herself. ‘Yes, whether he believes me or not has nothing to do with me. But why do I get nervous when I look at him?”
“I’m going back to my room,” Grace said, trying to walk past Jason toward the stairs.
However, he suddenly pulled her arm when she had only taken two steps. The next moment, she pretty much crashed into his arms by the pull.