Although Felix cast his eyes on the sea, Wendy still could feel his coldness. It was like a knife stabbing
at her. She tried to hide, but she could not move her feet as if they were buried in the sand.
"I... I.. I saw it and..."
"Answer what I asked, don't say anything else."
Wendy had guessed that Felix came to confront her, so she tried to explain before Felix asked more,
but Felix interrupted her cold, not giving her chance to speak.
Felix continued to ask coldly.
"You gossiped before you knew the truth?"
The people whom Felix hated most in his life were those who spoke one thing to their face and did
another behind their back. Wendy had made this big mistake.
"I..."
Wendy suddenly felt blank in mind and did not know what to say. But after a moment of silence, she
was aware of that Felix must have known the truth, or he would not have asked her that question.
There was no point lying now that he knew the truth.
"Chairman, I did not know what was going on, it was Mr. Bennet investigated it. I just saw them went
into the hotel."
Wendy told Felix what she had said to Brian, but she did not tell him that she was tracking Winnie. She
thought that no one knew she followed Winnie.
"If you have not told Brian out of context, will he investigate it, will he suspect? You did not directly say
Winnie cheated on Brian, but you meant it."
"Your intention is so obvious. You can deceive Brian, but not me."
Felix shouted angrily, which frightened Wendy, she shivered and dared not speak a word of
explanation.
"Wendy, I'm telling you for the last time. You'll never marry into the Bennet family as long as I am alive."
"You'd better behave well and stay away from Winnie. Even if she broke up with Brian, she is still the
mother of two kids, and for the sake of the kids, I will not stand idly by if anyone bullies her. Even
Brian's wife, let alone you, is not allowed to make a hard time for her."
Felix warned Wendy and stared at Wendy angrily.
"Listen and remember. Or you will suffer the consequences of your actions."
Felix dropped his last warning and stepped away.
He now hated Wendy to the extreme. Even if Brian was single in this life, he would not allow Wendy to
marry him.
Wendy even had no courange to look at the back of Felix. She was panic and could only look at the
sea.
How she wished that had not happened, that Felix had not warned her.
Since Felix had known it, even if Brian was back to her, Felix could not allow her to marry with him.
Wendy could not help sighing at the seaside. Helpless, she wanted to cry. She just wanted to be back
to Brian, why was it so hard?
It was a day.
Winnie returned home alone and she seemed to have used to be alone these days. After dinner, she
got into the work of software research.
When she tired, she took some rest, when she was sleepy, she took a bath and went to bed. Work
could replace all her wild thoughts without interrupting her sleep or her meals.
When Winnie was still working, she got a call from Isobel.
“Why are you still up late?”
As the phone was connected, Isobel knew Winnie had not been asleep, because she would mute the
phone at the usual time when she got to bed.
"I have not finished my work yet."
"Aunt, why are you up so late?”
Winnie said in a relaxing tone, afraid her aunt would be worried about her.
"Our medical team has a video conference, and it just finished. Don't worry about me, I will take care of
myself. But you don’t have a good physical condition, you can’t often stay up late."
Isobel nagged inevitably. If she went abroad, Winnie would be the only pillar of the whole family. If she
was ill, Vanessa and two kids would be worried. And it would make her less secure working.
"Don't worry, Aunt, I stay up late occasionally. Besides, I'm going to bed before you called."
Winnie took a look at her watch and found it was more than eleven o'clock, it was time to sleep.
"Well, then, I'll come to the point and then you go to sleep."
"I bought a plane ticket for Friday at noon. I will be there in the afternoon. You can pick me up at the
airport. I will send you the specific time later."
Isobel tried to finish her words as soon as possible, so that Winnie could go to bed earlier.
"You are going home finally, Aunt."
Winnie had a complex mood when she heard that her aunt was to go back home, because she did not
know if she should tell her aunt that she had broken up with Brian.
"Did you talk to Vanessa about my going to Africa?"
Isobel continued to ask.
"No, I am going to tell her when she came home this weekend."
Winnie did not expect her aunt would come back so soon, and so she had not told Vanessa yet, for fear
of affecting her mood at school.
"Call her tomorrow and let her know."
"Well, I've said all I have to say, you hurry to sleep."
Isobel hung up the phone.
In fact, she was not worried about Winnie, but Vanessa.
Winnie had the Bennet family to protect her, so Isobel was not worried, Vanessa, on the other hand,
had to face the problem for a lone time.
This was an unprecedented challenge for Vanessa. Isobel was afraid that she could not make it
through alone.
The next day, Winnie called Vanessa home after work.
She asked Vanessa back because she could comfort Vanessa when they talked face to face if she was
sad.
Vanessa was home when Winnie had had the dinner ready, but Winnie did not say anything on the
table. After quietly and comfortably finishing the dinner, two sisters sat in the living room to talk about
her aunt.
"Vanessa, I have something to tell you."
"I see. You called me back and made all these delicious food. I guess there is something wrong. Tell
me, I can accept anything that doesn't matter to life."
Vanessa said leisurely. She knew what her sister was worried or afraid that she was affected by her
disease and could not face the problem. But she thought she had recovered well. As long as there was
no accident of her family, she could accept anything.
But it could not be an accident, or her sister would not be able to eat with her so leisurely.
"It is about aunt. Aunt......"
"What's the matter with aunt?”
Hearing that, Vanessa was nervous.
"Nothing, I mean aunt is coming back."
Winnie said gently. Seeing that Vanessa changed her attitude so fast, she could not help laughing.
"Good, why do you make it so mysterious? When will aunt be back?"
Vanessa was relieved and then laughed.
"Friday. We'll pick her up at the airport when you are after school."
Winnie planed to pick up her aunt when Vanessa was off school.
"Ok, let's go to the airport to pick her up. Aunt is finally home and I can move back home..."
"Don’t be happy so early, she will leave again."
Winnie interrupted Vanessa's words.
"What? Where go to? Hasn't aunt had enough fun?"
Vanessa stopped smling, looking at her sister, confused.
"She will go to Africa for medical support."
...
Winnie told Vanessa her aunt’s plan. As she was speaking, she had been staring at Vanessa and
observaing her expression.
She turned upset from joyful, Finally, she sighed.
"She is old and has retired from the hospital. Why she needs to go for medical support?"
Vanessa did not understand and did not want her aunt to go for medical support. She felt hard to
accept the face.
"I told her that, but she said she had been there several times and had experience. The hospital is
short on staff, and an old friend of hers, the director, asked her for help, and she couldn't say no. And
she said it was a duty, a mission, for the country and for her. She had to go."
Winnie explained to Vanessa, knowing that Vanessa did not want that to happen.
Vanessa was silent for a long time. She only looked down at her hands and looked up at the sky out of
the window occasionally.
She thought that with her aunt back, she would be able to go home. She was relieved that her aunt had
come back, because her sister could cut off her relationship with the Bennet family. And her family
could live a happy and comfortable life.
But she did not expect her aunt to leave and had no idea when she would be back.
But from her aunt's point of view, Vanessa felt herself selfish.
She had wasted so many years for her family, for her and for her sister. Otherwise, she would not have
retired early and would now be fighting for her beloved medical career.
In other words, she and her sister had encumbered her aunt, and now it was time to give her back her
time and freedom.
Winnie took a deep breath, sat up straight and managed to smile.
"Let her go. I can only support her."
"That's right. We have our life and she has her dreams. Let her go, be positive and supportive so she
can do her job well."
Vanessa accepted it calmly and Winnie was pleased about that.
"Come on, you have class at night. I'll take you to school."
Winnie got up, she was relieved that the problem had been solved.
"I can walk back, it is not far away, I don't need you to send me back."
Vanessa also got up, picked up her backpack and walked toward the door.
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