"Hmm, let ask you, is General Leonard with you right now?"
"Yes, he’s in the study."
"Can you pass the phone to him?"
"Becca, you’re not really planning to tell Roger about our embarrassing past, are you?"
Rebecca Quentin chuckled softly, "Don’t worry, I still plan to use that as leverage to have you help with other things in the future. I won’t disclose it to your husband for now... So, feel free to hand your phone to him. I need to ask him sothing."
"Oh, is it sothing important?"
Isabella Joanna asked as she walked towards the study.
"I’ll tell you afterward."
"Okay."
A few seconds later, Roger Leonard’s slightly lazy voice ca through the phone, "Hello, Dora."
The title "Dora" made Rebecca Quentin pause for a mont, but she didn’t dwell on it and directly said,
"General Leonard, I want to ask you sothing."
"Please go ahead, Dora. I’ll be completely honest with you."
Rebecca Quentin solemnly stated, "Since you promised to be completely honest, you must tell the truth."
It was only then that Roger Leonard beca alert, furrowing his brow as he asked, "Becca, what do you want to know?"
"On the day I married Howard Geoffrey, why did he leave suddenly?"
"Didn’t Dora explain it to you?"
"He did explain, but I don’t fully believe him. I want you to tell again."
Roger Leonard chuckled cleverly, "Dora, if you’re going to doubt my brother, don’t drag into it. If I accidentally say sothing wrong and you end up arguing with him, I’d definitely get beaten up by him."
"I don’t need you to tell the whole process; just tell what the outco was."
Roger Leonard laughed heartily, "Well, the outco is that Chester Robinson ended up in the hospital and is still in critical condition..."
What?
Rebecca Quentin’s heart trembled, her eyes wide open.
She had long guessed that between Howard Geoffrey and Chester Robinson, whichever side won wouldn’t leave the other unscathed. Thus, when she heard Howard Geoffrey had won, she was sowhat prepared for Chester Robinson’s fate. However, hearing now that Chester Robinson’s life hung in the balance, she found it deeply shocking and sowhat unbelievable.
In her impression of Chester Robinson, it was always "Doctor Robinson" that she rembered. She tried to let go of the cruel things he had done to her, preferring to let her mories linger on the beautiful monts they shared.
Therefore, hearing about Chester Robinson’s fate now, her heart was indeed heavy. Of course, this heaviness was because he was once her most trusted friend.
Rebecca Quentin sighed softly, trying to maintain composure despite the shocking news, and calmly asked, "Is it just that Chester Robinson is in the hospital?"
"Becca, it sounds like... you’re trying to get more information from ?" Roger Leonard, having been in the business world for so many years, naturally wasn’t slow-witted.
"Yes, but as far as I know, Alice Robinson was also hospitalized in the end... Why didn’t you tell ?" Rebecca Quentin frowned.
"Becca, if you have questions, you should ask Dora."
"You should know that he won’t tell the truth, just like all of you want to hide the fact that Alice Robinson was hospitalized from ."
"It’s really not an important matter..."
"Then was his abandoning our wedding for Alice Robinson not important?"
"You’re mistaken, Dora didn’t do it for Alice Robinson. He did it for a plan..."
Rebecca Quentin chuckled softly, "Okay, then when the plan ended, why did he still take care of Alice Robinson?"
"Becca, honestly, I don’t know much about what’s between Dora and Alice Robinson. Even in my heart, I have the sa doubts as you. But I firmly believe that Dora is not hiding sothing because of any involvent with Alice Robinson. Perhaps he had other reasons to save her?"
Ah...
He really did abandon their wedding for Alice Robinson.
Her earlier question was just to pry this matter out from Roger Leonard, and his lack of denial had already confird it.
At this mont, Rebecca Quentin was stunned, her body weakly leaning against the headboard.
Roger Leonard called, "Becca, Becca..."
Rebecca Quentin gently steadied the phone that was about to slip from her fingers, gazed blankly ahead, and uttered, "I’m here."
Roger Leonard spoke with urgency, "You must believe in Dora; there’s no doubt he cares about you."
Rebecca Quentin slowly closed her burning eyes, bit her lip lightly, and after several seconds, took a deep breath, responding, "I know how to handle things between him and ... But I want you to promise one thing."
"Go ahead."
"I’d like you not to let Howard Geoffrey know about our call today, as I’m still figuring out how to handle this."
"No, you’ll overthink things this way..."
"Of course, I’ll overthink things... He keeps saying we should be honest with each other, and I’ve already chosen to trust him wholeheartedly, but has he been honest with ? If there’s truly nothing between them, why is he hiding his care for Alice Robinson from ?" As she spoke, Rebecca Quentin’s voice choked up, and the pain in her heart was hard to bear.
"Becca..."
"General Leonard, I’m begging you, okay? Even you can’t understand why he left to rescue Alice Robinson at the mont of our wedding ceremony. How can you expect to believe he cares about more than he does about her? I need to find the answer myself... If you tell him, are you sure there would be a positive developnt between us?"
Rebecca Quentin paused, swallowing back the lump in her throat, and smiled bitterly, "General Leonard, you wish for my happiness too, right? If he cares about another woman more than he does about , what’s the point of being with him?"
After listening to her, Roger Leonard remained silent for a long ti. Indeed, even he couldn’t comprehend this, but Becca was right; Dora shouldn’t have hidden it from her.
"Becca, you know what? Later, I’m surely going to get beaten to death by Dora."
"So, have you agreed?"
"Can I refuse?"
"Thank you..."
The next day.
Rebecca Quentin woke up early; after a night of contemplation, she had made her decision.
Yes, her decision was for him to put aside those trivial matters and go on vacation with her to Foam Island today.
Early in the morning, she took out all the clothes belonging to her and Howard Geoffrey from the wardrobe, then asked the maid for two suitcases...
She simply picked so clothes they often wore, filling the two large suitcases completely. Thinking they wouldn’t need formal wear for a vacation, she swapped so of his shirts with more casual clothes he didn’t usually wear.
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