“Unpack and then take a rest. I have to take off now, ” Edmund said. She seized his hand and asked,


    “Would you like to stay for dinner, maybe?”


    “No, I’m good.” said Edmund with a fatigued face, in no mood to dine with her mother.


    As a son, he had long drifted apart with her.


    After the refusal, he got back into his car and his diver drove him off.


    Instead of driving all way back to Vertoak, Edmund told the diver to stopped by a hotel and checked in.


    The driver was tired after having been driving for hours,


    Edmund was all the more exhausted by the hurried back-and-forth journey, so all he wanted was to find


    some ce to rx.


    What drove him to get things over with in such a rush was the idea of seeing Chelsea as soon as


    possible.


    Having taken a shower at the hotel, rather than hit the sack, he ced a call to Chelsea to tell her he


    was back and his mother had been settled down.


    He had made video call to her but was hung up by Chelsea, who called him back in audio, “Sorry, I am


    not home yet, can’t talk to you on video.”


    Edmund replied with his understanding. Chelsea could tell that he was tired by his voice, and it broke


    her heart, “You should really go to bed and take a good rest now.”


    “I am going to,” said Edmund with a sigh, ” I am finally back.” He then went on to say gently, “I will


    come see you as soon as I can.” He had missed her so much over the Last few days that it’s driving


    him crazy to be away with her for any Longer.


    If he hadn’t been so unbelievably whacked, he would have flown off to the Capital right away.


    “Okay, ” said Chelsea, “go get some sleep. I am kind of busy. I gotta go now.”


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    Holding the phone that’s been hung up, he felt deeply frustrated.


    Was she really so busy that she couldn’t finish a call?


    Before getting on the ne, he had told her on the phone that he would be more than happy to see her


    at the airport in Vertoak when he got off the ne.


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    But she only to have told him that she was sorry, saying she wouldn’t be avable that day, and she


    would find the time to see him when she had got the work done.


    He gave up.


    He repressed himself from doing that kind of thinking, saying to himself that he was the one going after


    the other in this rtionship, so he should just thank god that she didn’t shrink from him. He shouldn’t


    expect any more from her.


    Putting away his phone, he closed the heavy curtain and went to sleep.


    What he didn’t know was Chelsea already was in Vertoak when he called her, which was why she hung


    up the video call.


    Moreover, she sounded Like that on purpose when she refused toe to Vertoak with the excuse of


    not having the time so as to surprise him.


    She’s not only in Vertoak, but actually on her way to the hotel. Chelsea came to the hotel on impulse


    because she had intended to wait for him in Vertoak, but she couldn’t resist when she had felt how


    much he missed her on the call, so she came all the way there so he could see her when he woke up.


    When she got to the hotel, instead of going to meet him right away, she left him more time to sleep by


    sitting rxed at a coffee house nearby, attending to her work.