Before she returned, Everleigh never once doubted that the incident that happened seven years ago would have something to do with her best friend Josephine, even though Christopher had reminded her time and time again to be cautious.
Josephine was still sitting opposite her, the invulnerable calmness on her cold face still there. "I am just working for the things that I want."
It was such a simple sentence, and yet it was the explanation for the deadly incident that Everleigh had met with seven years ago.
She was furious, but at that moment, the waiter came over and served their drinks.
Without even thinking, she grabbed the glass of iced water and splashed it to the opposite side without hesitation.
"Ah!" Following Josephine's cry of horror, everyone in the restaurant looked in their direction.
"Have you gone mad?"
"Who's the crazy one? Me? Or you?" Everleigh gritted her teeth, gripping the empty cup in her hand so tightly that it seemed like it would be crushed, "How could you do such a thing?" 'I... Josephine was about to say something, but she suddenly looked over Everleigh's shoulder. When she saw the person approaching standing behind her, her face changed instantly and she cried, "Theodore..."
Everleigh turned around in shock. Theodore was standing less than half a meter away from her. His towering figure struck fear into her. His face was dark. "Everleigh, what are you doing?"
Everleigh clenched her fists. She did not know how to explain, nor did she want to explain.
If she still did not understand why Josephine did what she did back then, then she was truly an idiot. What else could it be? The thing she wanted, or rather, the person she wanted, was him.
So, if it wasn't for Theodore's words, then the things that happened that night would not have happened.
At the thought of this, she clenched her fists even tighter. Her fingernails were piercing into her palm, but she felt no pain at all; she only felt numb. She felt numb all over.
After a long while, she gritted her teeth, and she asked Theodore, "Do you know what Josephine has done?"
"What did she do?" Theodore's tone was extremely cold. Josephine leaned into his arms, her eyes red. She looked so pitiful, and Everleigh felt that no man could resist that at all.
'Theodore, I only heard that Everleigh was having some troubles sending her two children to school so I invited her out to see if there was anything I could help. I don't know why she did that..."
"Don't be afraid." Theodore took a tissue from one of the waiters and wiped the water on her face while she snuggled in his embrace. He did not say a word, but he was obviously filled with rage.
Sniffs and sobs could be heard as if she was spilling out endless grievances in her. However, Everleigh realized that while Theodore was embracing that woman in his arms, his eyes were clearly filled with cold light.
It was a look of mockery, filled with cold and endless scorn.
She immediately understood Josephine's real purpose of inviting her here today.
She was sure that it was impossible for her to speak of what happened that night seven years ago in front of so many people. She was absolutely sure that Theodore would be disgusted at the thought of what happened that night seven years ago.
Theodore's gaze seemed to be burning. He glared at her aggressively, as if he was still waiting for her explanation.
Under such a gaze, Everleigh's burning anger seemed to be slowly extinguished by cold water. Her tightly clenched fists gradually loosened too.
What could she say?
Was she supposed to explain to Theodore in front of so many people that in her most expectant and youthful age, she was dragged by countless pairs of filthy hands into a dark alley where a heavy downpour ruined her youth forever?
To tell him that the reason they broke up back then was because she could not tell him what happened on that rainy night?
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