Her father, stepmother, and Evelyn looked at each other hesitantly.
Her stepmother was about to curse and start pounding on the door, but her husband caught her hand. “Let it go.”
Her father shrugged. “Come, let us leave. Perhaps the man was released from prison as well! There are all kinds of people in prison. Who knows why this man had been sentenced to jail?”
Hearing this, Evelyn and her mother exchanged a glance. “Then shall we just let it go?”
Her father hesitated for a moment and said, “Let’s wait. If Assistant Director Curtis holds Evelyn accountable in the future, then we’ll think of other ways.” He didn’t have the courage to come in and challenge the man now.
Evelyn frowned. “Had the man just now … really been in prison?” Although she could not see very clearly since the man’s hair was longer on top, she could still notice that he was good-looking.
Particularly for some reason, she felt that the man looked somewhat familiar as if she had seen him somewhere before.
Or was this man also a member of the entertainment circle?
In the apartment, Grace looked at Jay and said, “Thank you.” If Jay had not come back, she would have been beaten by her father just now.
“Don’t thank me for the help, Sister. Isn’t it what I should do?” He pointed at her ankle. “It hasn’t healed yet. I’ll apply the Safflower Oil for you.”
The routine of removing her sock and shoes, rubbing in the oil, and wrapping her foot took several minutes. The whole time, he didn’t say a word.
Grace bit her lip and finally said, “Why didn’t you ask me what those three came here for?”
“I won’t ask if you don’t want to tell,” he said.
“Actually, it’s nothing difficult to say. They are my father, stepmother, and half-sister,” Grace said. “But now, they are no longer my problem.”
After hesitating for a moment, she asked again, “Didn’t you have anything else to ask?”
He should have heard her father scolding her in front of him, saying that she had been in prison.
eyes. “What do you wish me to
revealed a kind of strange silence under the dim yellow
contend with for the rest of her life. She was innocent, but that didn’t matter. She’d been tried, convicted, sentenced, and had
driving and killing a person, Jay. I
people would change their attitude when they heard that. After her release, as long as people around her knew that she had
reason she
else would
reaction, for him to say something or judge her with his
said indifferently, still concentrating on massaging her
her eyes in surprise. “You
response. “As you said, from now on, we only need to care about each other, and
to
total stranger, she found
ironic that her only family, who should’ve
relieved of a heavy burden. “Jay, I am so
eyes, but
she saw Jay, she could not associate him with the homeless person that was mentioned by her friend. And she made it a point to say so, in
and
It was true.
Even in the cheap pants and sneakers and jacket more suited to an old man, there was no hiding his tall frame or strong
only wearing an ordinary cotton-padded jacket and trousers and cheap sneakers, Even his too-long hair fell just right
handsome
on
and asked again, “Are you sure he is a homeless person who has no place
the good-looking ones are suitable to be stars or models,”
a living in the entertainment circles. That took a certain personality and drive. “As you’re stuck with him
before that Jay would do something evil to her? Now, she seemed to worry that she would