Officer Lee was happy. It was probably the most valuable call he'd ever made.
Officer Lee concealed the identity for Winnie successfully. As for when they would be good, Officer Lee
could not help.
After finishing his call with Officer Lee, Brian seemed even more depressed.
He thought Winnie's help was dirty. At the moment, he felt that he was a villain, thinking Winnie was
bad.
And he had a quarrel with her yesterday because of it. She must be puzzled and felt he was a scum.
He was not in a mood to work, he had to calm down first.
Brian put down all the work and went to Winnie's office.
For the arrival of Brian, Winnie was surprised.
How could he come to her office? If Winnie was not wrong, it was Brian said they should not meet. But
it was possible that Winnie thought more, he might come because of work.
"Mr. Bennet? What is wrong？"
Winnie stood up from the chair respectfully and looked at the man who was intimate with her, of course,
it was past. Now they were separated by a river, and the distance of the river was that they could not
swin.
"I..."
Brian hesitated, and then thought of a starting topic.
"Officer Lee just called me and said Richard had turned up. He told me I had to be careful about our
family's safety. I thought about it, and the most important is the kids. They are in the suburbs these
days. I will arrange for someone to protect them."
Brian said what he thought, but he was too embarrassed to mention the quarrel yesterday.
"Well, it is soon for them to start primary school, let them enjoy the play these days."
Winnie did not object, after all, it was for the sake of the kids, but she was said that no one was there to
protect her. But now she was a policewoman who could defend herself.
"If you want to see them, go to the suburbs, don’t go out, or your safety could not be guaranteed."
In fact, these words were foreshadowing, but he really felt embarrassed to explain what happened
yesterday. Would Winnie forgive him?
"Ok, I'll contact Rufus before I go after confirming you are not at home."
In order to avoid Brian’s misunderstanding, Winnie said so. She just went to see the kids without any
other thought.
Since they talked about the kids, Winnie asked.
"Right, about the school, should I discuss with you or Stella?"
Winnie reminded that words Brian had said and let him know the kids would go to primary school.
Brian did not expect Winnie would ask this question, and apparently he was awkward. What was he
gonna say? If he asked her to talk to his sister, the conversation was over. If he asked her to talk with
him, he went back on his warning.
When Brian hesitated, Winnie made a choice for him.
"Let me discuss it with Stella. Mr. Bennet, I've got a meeting."
Winnie took a document on her desk and then quickly left her office.
Brian awkwardly stood there alone. He wanted to explain, but in the end, he was silent.
If he knew silence would end the conversation so soon, he should have offered his explanation quickly
without hesitation.
Thomas asked Gloria out after the investigation.
The two met in the private room of a restaurant.
"How is the investigation, Uncle Thomas?"
Gloria walked into the room and asked. She had been waiting for two days, not she was anxious.
"Don't worry. Sit down first."
Thomas said slowly.
Gloria hurriedly sat down, did not want to waste a second.
"Hurry up, Thomas, if it continues to delay, I am afraid that there will be a change on Brian's side."
Gloria urged again, it could be seen that she was anxious.
She could be calm in front of Brian, but she really could not calm down now.
"All right, I will say it."
Thomas spoke seeing that Gloria was anxious like an ant in the hot pot. He wondered why every girl
could not be calm and steady as Winnie. Was it because Winnie had much experience?
"We don't have to worry about Penny. I checked that she has terminal cancer and it has spread. She
can live no more than six months."
"Cancer, six months? If we have waited for six months, Brian and I will be over.”
Gloria was not affected. She had no feeling when she heard that Penny had cancer, she was even
secretly pleased.
But even if Penny got cancer, Gloria felt too long. She knew that everyone and everything would have
great changes during the six months, and Brian's heart was no exception.
"Penny is a dying woman now, and anything we do with her is meaningless and it may get us involved.
We can't make a scene but we can't just sit there and wait. We just need to get her cancer to spread
faster. We can't hold on for six months, but we can hold on for two months or even a month."
Thomas thought so. If a dying person was annoyed, she would fight back desperately. She was dying,
he and Gloria would not take a risk.
It was better to be safe.
"But with what way can let her die quickly? Can't you think of a way to deal with Penny and Winnie at
the same time? Penny got Winnie involved, we would rather counterplot."
Gloria’s message was clear: she couldn't wait even for a month. She just wanted to settle the matter
right now and tell him she could marry him.
However, Thomas was not impulsive as Gloria, temporarily there was no counterplot.
"Gloria, you are impatient. Every step of doing something big should..."
"Uncle Thomas, how can I be patient? What if Brian and Winnie get back together?
Gloria now was worried that Winnie and Brian got back together, and she would be waiting for so many
years in vain.
"Don't worry. You are grandpa's hand-picked granddaughter-in-law, and no one can replace you. There
is a point you have to have in mind, even if you and Brian married, you can do nothing even if Brian
and Winnie are back together. After all, there are two kids, and that's what Grandpa wants."
Thomas told Gloria the possibility to make her calm down and see the facts. Gloria’s panic let him
upset, such a woman could not make a major event.
Gloria was stunned and thought of what Thomas had told her.
At that time Thomas said, Winnie was likely to be with Brian for a lifetime as his mistress. Felix
acquiesced in this, and there would be no change.
She could only accept such a relationship in order to cooperate, but Brian loved Winnie too much. If he
kept this relationship, she would become a mistress and then be kicked out of the Bennet's house.
"I understand, but I can't let Brian keep Winnie outside all his lifetime. It is insult to me."
"And Winnie's existence is bad to you and Jack. If I have no status and power in the Bennet family,
How can I help Jack?"
Gloria said her true thoughts, also the position of Thomas clearly. It was not a threat, she just wanted
Thomas to come up with better help.
"Alas...... You have a point there. If you really want to fight Winnie, I can help you, but not with Penny.
It's too risky."
"Insist on two months. When Penny dies, if Brian and Winnie get back together, I will help you solve
Winnie. Now we should focus on Penny.”
Thomas hated Gloria's threat, but he didn't show it. In order to make better use of Gloria, he could
swallow this disrespect.
As for the solution to the matter, Thomas would not compromise, and would do as he wanted.
"Ok, I believe you."
She said she believed Thomas, but looked helpless on her face.
"Right, do you know why Brian and Winnie broke up?"
Thomas really wanted to know it, so that he would know if they would get back together or it might be
of other help.
"I don't know, but once I met Winnie's friend in a hot pot restaurant. Her friend accused Brian and said
that she broke up with Winnie because he liked me."
"I don't know if that was the reason."
Gloria did not know it. At the airport she asked Winnie, but Winnie let her ask Brian. How couls she
directly ask Brian? Brian might not answer her and might be angry.
"Strange, why the reason is unknown?"
Thomas did not say it, but had doubts in heart. He didn't understand why Brian had to hide the reason
for breaking up.
Winnie went to the kids' kindergarten after work on the same day. After the quit formalities, she sent the
kids directly to the suburbs.
Because of the fear of meeting Brian, Winnie hurried to leave and even refused to stay for dinner after
sending the kids there.
On the way home, she was driving around thinking about these things. After all these things, the kids
left her again. It was for the safety of the kids, she still felt a lot of things missing.
She was completely alone. The kids spent Mondays through weekends in the suburbs. When she
missed the kids, she could only see them when Brian was not there.
Although she was reluctant, Winnie was quite at ease. Rufus took care of kids more carefully than her,
in addition to study of the kids, he had done a good job.
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