The Indifferent Ex-Husband: Heartstrings in the Mall of Fate novel Chapter 545

But nobody answered him. Marian had curled up, clutching her knees, biting her lower lip, her head hanging low, not daring to look up at him.

Louis had no choice but to turn to Brandon for help, "Brandon, you know where Yoli is, don't you?"

Brandon's eyes were fixed on him, slightly red-rimmed.

"I don't know," he said, his voice hoarse, emphasizing each word.

"Don't bullshit me." Louis tapped his cane on the floor with a thud, "You clearly know where Yoli is."

He waved the white jade necklace that Brandon had tossed at him earlier, "If you really don't know where she is, where did this come from then?"

Brandon glanced at the necklace dangling from his finger, a lump forming in his throat.

This thing had been under his nose all these years, the person had been right there too. He had always assumed that Sophia was Yolanda, and Yolanda was Sophia. But he kept his distance every single time, either because he was afraid of facing the possibility that they weren't the same person or because he was scared she'd find out he was still mixing her up with Yolanda. So, like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, he chose not to verify it.

The fragile relationship between him and her couldn't withstand even the slightest destruction.

She didn't like him mentioning Yolanda, so he didn't. She said she was just Sophia, so he was convinced she was just Sophia. She was bothered by Yolanda, so he wouldn't let Yolanda come between them. He treated her as her, treading on thin ice to maintain their delicate relationship.

He thought, even if Sophia, with her lost childhood memories, was Yolanda, she wasn't Yolanda anymore.

Her memories held nothing of Yolanda, nothing of Brandon. Yolanda had vanished from the world the moment she disappeared.

Gone meant gone. So, compared to losing her, verifying whether she was Yolanda wasn't so important.

Whether she was Yolanda wasn't that important either. What he cared about was just her, from the beginning to the end.

But when he really saw the white jade necklace that confirmed she was Yolanda, when he was truly 100% certain in his heart that she was Yolanda, he felt a sigh of relief, an ecstatic sadness.

Ecstatic that they were one whole, that from the beginning to the end, she hadn't changed, nor had he.

Yet, he was also saddened that she had come back, and he had lost her again, over and over.

Seeing Brandon just staring at the white jade necklace, lost in thought and not speaking, Louis couldn't wait. After jabbing his cane on the ground once more, he almost begged Brandon, shouting, "Tell me, where the hell is Yoli?"