Chapter 111
Chapter 111
After all, when he first met that person, it was in this small town.
However, probing further now, he seemed to be overthinking.
“It’s not you,” he simply remarked that she was not the one.
“Not what?” Rosalie thought, confused.
At this moment, the owner of the restaurant served the dishes. Calvin said, “Okay, let’s eat. Fancy
some wine?”
Recalling her previous drunk episode in front of Jonathan, Rosalie hastily shook her head. “No thanks,
a soft drink will do.”
Therefore. Calvin requested two bottles of non-alcoholic drinks from the owner.
“You’re not having wine as well?” She raised her eyebrows.
“I have to driveter, so no wine for me, Calvin replied.
Rosalie’s expression suddenly darkened. Memories of the car crash and her unjust sentence for drunk
driving, despite her being sober, echoed in her mind.
“Back then, your ident was also due to drunk driving, wasn’t it?” His voice abruptly broke the
silence. “Is that why you found a job at the Environment and Sanitation Administration as a cleaner?”
“At least I still have work to do,” Rosalie answered with a touch of self-mockery.
“Would you like me to talk to the Environment and Sanitation Administration and get you a less
strenuous position there?” Calvin offered.
“No need,” Rosalie declined. After all, it was a heavy burden to ept favors from someone like the
scion Calvin.
Calvin’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. It was the first time his offer of help had been turned down. Were it
not for her bearing a resemnce to someone from his memories, he wouldn’t have ventured to help
her get another position.
Rosalie concentrated on the food in her bowl. Even with her head down, she could still feel his eyes on
her from time to time as if he were trying to unravel a mystery.
After a long time, upon finishing their meal, Calvin suggested, “I’ll take you home.”
“There’s no need. I’ll take the bus.”
“At this hour, do you think you can still catch the bus back to Strico even if you rush to the bus station
immediately?” Rosalie looked at the time and realized that it was already 8:30 p.m. Even if she took a
cab to the bus station now, she wouldn’t make it in time for thest bus.
As for the train, the services would not be avable until tomorrow morning.
“I’ll give you a ride,” Calvin said indifferently. “But if you’d rather not, you can figure out something on
your own too.” Rosalie bit her lip slightly. If left to her own devices right now, she honestly had no
solutions.
“Well… Then thank you,” she uttered, a bit embarrassed.
After getting into Calvin’s car again, Rosalie sat in the passenger seat and stared at the night beyond
the window. Selena Quintani’s ssic “Como La Flor” was ying from the car’s speakers.
To Rosalie’s astonishment again, she never expected that Calvin would appreciate such ssics.
The track was even set to y on a loop.
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Therefore, the song just kept ying over and over in the car.
Rosalie nostalgically recalled her own affection for the song and remembered how she used to sing
along.
Since this song was in Spanish, she even learned the pronunciation of every lyric in the song in order
to sing it urately.
back then.
Reminiscing on those days spent at Wilma’s ce, she felt those were perhaps the happiest times she
could remember. Lost in the melody, fatigue began to overtake Rosalie as her eyelids became heavier
and heavier.
These days, she had to work during the day and learn how to knit gloves at night. She hardly got any
sleep every day. Plus, early this morning, she rushed over by bus and worked all y.
Soon after, Rosalie unconsciously closed her eyes and fell asleep.
Calvin nced at Rosalie, who was asleep, and turned down the volume slightly.
After Rosalie fell asleep, she resembled more of the person in Calvin’s memory. In fact, when she had
her eyes opened, she
also resembled that person. It was just that the burdened and depressed look in her eye after suffering
hardships was foreign. to how that person in his memories looked.
The girl’s eyes were clear and bright, seemingly filled with endless hope.
When Rosalie woke up, the car had stopped at the entrance of the residential area where she lived.
She felt embarrassed and hurriedly unfastened her seat belt. “How long have I been sleeping?”
“It’s okay. It wasn’t long.”
Rosalie hurriedly got out of the car, reaching out to grab her bag ced next to the seat. Unfortunately,
she identally spilled the contents of her bag on the seat in a hurry.
Flustered and sweating profusely, she immediately started gathering her belongings that were spilled
from her bag.
All of a sudden, a hand moved quicker than hers and swiftly picked up the half-finished gloves.
“Are you knitting gloves?” He was a little surprised.
“Well, I am bored. Just keeping myself busy by knitting them.” She made a casual excuse and quickly
took the gloves back from his hand. She uttered a brief “thank you” before closing the car door and
hurried into the residential area.
Through the car’s windshield, Calvin watched as Rosalie’s figure slowly disappeared from sight.
The gloves she had been knitting seemed to fit the size of a man’s hand. “Is she knitting it for a
particr man?” he wondered.
Usually, a woman knitting something for a man would suggest particr sentiments and feelings unless
it was for a family
member.
However, the yarn was already aged. Calvin couldn’t help but wonder about the recipient of those
gloves.
Calvin restarted the car and drove away from the residential area.
Rosalie returned to her home. After washing up, she took out her phone and checked her bnce in
her phone.
Since she was released from prison, she only managed to save less than 1,000 dors until now,
Rosalie asked about Wilma’s medical expenses when she was in the hospital. Although she owed only
a few hundred dors currently, the expenses would continue to rise if the treatment persisted.
Conservatively estimating the expenses, it might take about 10,000 dors, and the subsequent costs
would vary based on her grandmother’s health progress.
For a quarter of this estimated sum of 10,000 dors, which would be around 2,500 dors, she was
still short by around 1,400 dors.
In the past, such an amount of around 1,400 dors wouldn’t have bothered her, but her situation was
now different. Rosalie finally understood the feeling of being in a pickle because of ack of money.
She was able to calcte the monthly sry from the job she had at the Environment and Sanitation
Administration. As for others, since she had a criminal record, it was hard for her to get a part-time job.
Rosalie sighed and was still worried until she fell asleep.
“Hey, don’t sleep. We can escape. A young girl’s voice suddenly came. Rosalie didn’t know who was
talking. However, it seemed like the voice sounded simr to hers.
“My feet… It hurts. I can’t walk anymore… Another voice came. Rosalie couldn’t quite figure out whose
voice this was, although she knew this was a boy’s voice.
Then I’ll carry you. I am very strong, so I can definitely carry you!” the little girl said. “By the way, don’t
fall asleep. We’ve seen it on TV, right? If you fall asleep now, you might not open your eyes again.
Would you like me to sing to you? I can sing Selena Quintani’s songs, and Granny says I do it pretty
well!”