With a smile, Rufus hung up the phone, and not Felix was worried.
“How is the competition?”
“He ranks 40th in the first round and 32nd the second round, today’s competition is over…”
“32nd? It is not good. Only the first prize wins.”
Thomas interrupted Rufus and wondered why Rufus was satisfied about the 32nd prize.
Rufus ignored him and then continued to speak composedly.
“There are 100 people in the competition, 20 people have been sifted out in the first round, Luke ranks
the 40th, it is good.”
“20 more people have been sifted out in the second round, Luke ranks the 32nd. It is an international
competition, it is not easy to rank the 32nd in the world.”
Rufus said with dissatisfaction to Thomas.
“Yes, there is only one person ranks the 32nd in the world and it is Luke. He is so small, it is already
extraordinary. Even if he will be sifted out in the next round, I am satisfied now.”
Felix said contentedly. When he was 6 years old, he could not speak fluently, while Luke had attended
an international competition, there was nothing that he felt dissatisfied.
“He will be sifted out. Brian said Luke was confident and he can enter the next two rounds.”
Rufus believed what Brian said and believed Luke’s ability.
He came here to tell his father for that he wanted to his father to be happy.
“Luke is smart, I think Winnie educates him well.”
Thomas changed his attitude and praised Winnie.
“Winwin did educate him well. If Luke is raised by Penny, he will be destroyed.”
Rufus mentioned Penny suddenly, which made Thomas nervous.
“Why you mentioned Penny? She deserves to be death. She mistreated Luke and she is our enemy
forever.”
Thomas cursed Penny angrily, as if he held resentment to Penny.
His exaggerated behavior made Rufus had doubts, but he said nothing. He mentioned Penny was
because he wanted to warm Thomas. Since Thomas understood, he had no necessity to say anymore.
“It is good that you know that.”
Rufus was silent, but Felix spoke.
He hated that Thomas was sinister to his family.
Rufus companied his father to have a walk. Seeing that Thomas was not around, he asked Rufus to
make a girlfriend.
“Dad, don’t make it hard for Brain. I don’t want a girlfriend, I am fine.”
Rufus said. He did not want his relationship to become worse because of it.
“How long will you be single? The kids can’t always be around you, and you will have no one to speak
to.”
Felix did not agree with Rufus.
“I can speak to Paul. I used to be alone and don’t want to be bothered.”
Rufus knew he was lonely and wanted to have woman to be with her, but she could only be Isobel.
But now he dare not mention her name, how could he be with her?
“You used to it? Have you really got used to or have you not got over Isobel?”
Felix stopped and looked at Rufus sharply.
Rufus was silent. He did not say yes or no.
“It’s been over 20 years, Rufus, these 20 years are the best time for a man. Haven’t you waited
enough?”
Rufus’ silence was tacitly approval to Felix, he still had Isobel in his heart.
“Dad, she missed her best years for me too. I lied to her and I can’t make her up for a lifetime.”
Rufus did not avoid the problem. He admitted that it was his fault in face of anyone, so there was no
pity that he was single for a life time.
“You lied to her, she lied to you too. How do you she was with you for nothing? How do you know that
she did not know you have family? You were in your 40s, she would have known that a man in his 40s
would have family, but she was still with you…”
“Dad, I told her I was divorced, and I have not ever told her I have children.”
At this, Rufus took a sign.
“It is in the past, don’t talk about it. I don’t want a woman, I will tell you when I want to.”
If it went on, he would have a quarrel with his father. It had been years, but the Bennet family did not
understand Isobel and felt she had motives, as now they thought about Winnie, who was unacceptable.
When the family of four and Oscar were to have dinner downstairs and walked to the first floor, they
met Wendy and a foreign man.
“Where are you going to?”
Wendy greeted them with a smile. She looked at Brian, but Winnie answered her.
“We are going to have supper, will you join?”
Winnie said politely.
“No, I ate out with my friend. Right, this is my friend, Jonny.”
Wendy took the chance to introduce Jonny to Wendy.
“Jonny, there are my friends from my country. This is Oscar and this is Winnie, they are both talented.
This is…”
As Wendy was to introduce Brian, she was interrupted by Brian.
“I am her husband and the two kids are our kids.”
With that, he held Winnie’s hand and told Jonny that Winnie was his woman..
Why Brian interrupted Wendy was because this foreign man had been fixing his evil eyes on Winnie at
the moment they met.
His eyes were so evil when he first time saw Winnie, which annoyed Brian.
However, Brian’s words stunned Wendy. How could he say he was her husband so easily? It had been
a short time since they broke up and now he became Winnie’s husband.
Wendy gave a bitter smile.
“Hello, I am Wendy’s friend, we have known each other for years.”
Jonny greeted them and finally moves his eyes away.
He looked up and down at Winnie careful, she was indeed beautiful and charming, who fit to his taste.
If she really was rich, he would like to have a try.
“Hello.”
Brian said briefly.
The voice of this foreign man made him uncomposed. Why Wendy had such a friend?
“You go and eat. We will not take your time.”
Wendy was awkward. Brian was so indifferent and she could not accept it.
Then she said to Jonny.
“Jonny, you go back too. I am safe. Don’t worry.”
“Ok then, see you tomorrow.”
After saying goodbye, Jonny turned and left, but before that, he took a look at Winnie.
After supper, Brian took Winnie and kids back their room. He asked Luke to go to bed early so that he
could be energetic to face the competition.
After the two kids fell asleep, Brian and Winnie came to the living room again. Brian remembered the
man next to Wendy.”
“Wendy’s friend is Jonny, right?”
“Yes.”
Winnie answered lightly, watching the video of Luke’s video of his competition.
She tried to see if Luke’s analysis was right about his competitors.
“He is not a good man, why does Wendy have such a friend?”
Thinking of his eyes when he watched Winnie, Brian knew he was frivolous and annoying.
Hearing that Brian kept talking about Wendy, Winnie moves her eyes from the screen.
“Don’t you know her friends?”
Winnie realized a problem. They were boyfriend and girlfriend, why didn’t he know about Wendy’s
friends?
“No, I never asked her life abroad and she never told me about it.”
Brian had never cared about Wendy, probably he was too busy and believed that Wendy could deal
with her connection.
Winnie felt strange, but she did not know what was wrong.
“At the beginning she went abroad, we contacted a lot and asked about the life of each other, but later I
got busy and I called her less and less. She was angry and did not call me. And after that, as along as
we were on the phone, I asked her when she would be back.”
They seemed to have nothing to talk to, that feeling was different with that when he was with Winnie.
“You are special, and you have been waiting for her for four years? It is true love.”
Winnie said in an ironic way and then he could not help but smile.
Hearing that, Winnie finally felt better because there was more miserable love than hers. And she was
not the most miserable one.
At the same she envied Wendy. With a few calls, Brian had been waiting for her for four years. Even if
she tried all her efforts to say sweet words to Brian, Brian might not be with her for four years.
Wendy was admirable, probably no men could resist Wendy’s charm.
“I was busy to communicate with her. I thought we can get married when she was back, it was natural,
but I have never thought if I loved her or not.”
“Since we did not communicate, so I didn’t know she had a bad friend, he is disgusting.”
Brian did not think four years is long or he was lonely. In the past four years, he had been focused on
his career, and waiting for Wendy was incidental.
“He is not that bad. He is handsome and enthusiastic. You hate him is because you are worried about
Wendy, or you are jealous…”
“No, I am not worried about Wendy or jealous of that man. I hate him because of the way he saw you
was wretched.
Brian hurried to explain for fear that Winnie would overthink.
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