Wendy left her office immediately when the lunch break began.
Coming out of the revolving door of the office building, she easily found the white Land Rover. Though the windshield, Wendy could vaguely see the outline of Charlie's face.
She trotted over quickly, opened the door, and got into the car.
Wendy fastened the seat belt, and asked with excitement, "Er, have you been waiting for a long time?"
Charlie didn't answer her. He just cast a glance at her.
His eyes were so dark, without any lights in them, as if they were dyed by black ink.
Wendy stunned for a few seconds. When she was about to open her mouth, he suddenly stepped on the gas pedal, and then the Land Rover ran into the traffic.
She looked at the street view outside the window along the way. They arrived at the shopping mall soon, but the Land Rover didn't stop, nor did it enter the underground parking lot. It just drove pass by the building.
From the rearview mirror, Wendy could see the building were getting farther and farther.
Wendy pointed at the building and said in surprise, "We are going to..."
However, Charlie seemed not to hear. He continued to stare at the front and concentrated on driving.
After driving for more than ten minutes, the Land Rover finally stopped on a bridge. In their view,the water in the river waved with the wind. Occasionally, a few yachts and ships sailed on it.
Charlie pulled up the handbrake and stalled the car.
Without saying a word, he took out a cigarette, put it into his mouth and lit it. He lowered the window by half, and then the wind came into the car and took the white smoke away.
He was smoking silently in the same posture, and his expression remained unchanged, which made Wendy confused.
Wendy bit her lips and asked in a soft voice, "Charlie, aren't we going to buy a necklace?"
"No." Charlie replied in a plain tone.
His eyes swept from her top to toes, and then from her toes to her face. He opened the storage compartment on his right and took out something.
The small key pendant was fluttering in the wind, and its inlaid diamonds were shining.
"Why do you have it?" Wendy was surprised.
She stretched out her hand to take it. The feeling in her palm brought her great joy of finding it.
However, the joy did not last long, because Charlie's calm voice sounded again, "Felix said that you lost it at his home the night before yesterday, and asked me to help with passing it to you." Wendy's heart skipped a beat.
She lost it at Felix's home that night...
Wendy held the pendant in her hand and held her breath. She began to sweat.
The expression on Charlie's face didn't change, but his tone was slow enough to make her scared. Every word were full of deterrence. "You told me that you didn't answer my call because you had fallen asleep?"
"..." He found she had told a lie, which made Wendy's blood freeze.
"Are you going to tell me what you two did that night?" Charlie shook the half of the cigarette in his hand and leaned over.
"He was sick..." Wendy felt a little difficult to swallow. She prevaricated, "He had a fever and no one could take care of him that night, so I..."
"So you've been taking care of him for the whole night?"
If Charlie remembered correctly, she didn't answer the phone until the next morning.
At the moment when Wendy nodded, he slapped on the back of the chair behind him.
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