She responded.
“Mommy, can you call Daddy, I want to talk to him.”
Luis looked at Adriana with bewildered eyes, begging.
“Call?”
Adriana froze, unsure of how to respond.
Opened the phone, rummaged through the address book, and did not find Peter’s phone, so I had to say pulled an excuse, “Your daddy should be sleeping at this time.”
“Oh, okay.”
Luis wasn’t saying anything.
Adriana stayed with them for an hour or so and let them both go to bed.
Back in her bedroom, Adriana lay on her bed, thinking left and right about Peter, but could not recall any memories of Peter.
“Did you hate him that much before? Not even a phone call?”
Sighed, shook his head, saw the time was late, and went to bed early.
Adriana’s phone rang just as the person was lying down.
Picked up the phone, looked at the unfamiliar phone number, hesitated or choose to answer it.
“Hello, who is it?”
“Ms. Hale, old Mr. Powell asked me to ask you if you are available tomorrow morning?”
A slightly older man on the other side asked politely.
Adriana lay under the covers, her eyes rolled, “Yes.”
“Well then, tomorrow morning at Alpineway Cafe, we’ll be waiting for you.”
The call hung up and Adriana set the phone aside.
Lying in bed for a long time, but still can not resist the sleepy attack, but more time to fall asleep.
In sleep, a white light came straight, at the end of the light stood a man, could not see his silhouette and features, only to hear him with its gentle call: “Adriana? Adriana?”
“Who are you?”
The man’s form floated over and stood in front of her, his hand holding her cheek, “Adriana, I miss you …”
“I … I don’t know who you are.”
“I’m honey.”
“Honey?”
Abruptly, the little woman’s body trembled and jerked awake from her dream.
Struggling to sit up, leaning on the bed, remembering the person in the dream, can only remember his gentle call ‘Adriana’, but can not remember what he looked like.
The next day, Adriana woke up early, got up and washed up, went to do the same physical training, and then ate and took the two children to school.
When I was waiting to drive back to the office, I suddenly thought of the phone call yesterday.
She immediately turned her car around and went to Alpineway Cafe.
When we got to the cafe, Adriana called the other person and they said they were on their way.
She could only wait a moment.
Ten minutes later, at the door of the box stood a man in a blue and white striped suit, with hard features and a dark complexion.
He is Raylan’s father.
I thought old Mr. Powell should be an old man, but I didn’t expect it to be so young.
“old Mr. Powell.”
She stood up and asked in a polite manner, “Can I get you something to drink?”
old Mr. Powell looked at her, waved his hand, and sat down directly on the card seat, “Young man, sit down.”
Adriana, unperturbed and calm, sat across from old Mr. Powell with a formulaic smile on her cheeks, “I wonder what old Mr. Powell wants me to come here for?”
Even though old Mr. Powell hadn’t said it yet, Adriana knew what he was doing here today.
“Ms. Hale is a smart guy, so I’ll be straightforward and not beat around the bush.”
old Mr. Powell leaning on the sofa, looking serious, a venerable supreme aura, domineering.
In particular, his bearded face gloomy look, as well as the pair of shining eyes measuring her pupils, are inadvertently give Adriana a lot of pressure.
“old Mr. Powell, go ahead.”
Accustomed to big scenes, Adriana is very calm.
“A while ago Old Mr. Soto came over and told me about you and Raylan, did you know that?”
old Mr. Powell was not sure if Adriana knew about it and did not jump to conclusions.
His question was right where Adriana expected it to be.
Only when asked suddenly, Adriana was wondering how to answer.
Thinking about it, and seeing old Mr. Powell’s torch-like gaze on himself, with a bit of scrutiny, simply asked directly: “Old Mr. Soto also told me after the fact.”
“Old Mr. Soto?”
He was a little surprised that Adriana would call Old Mr. Soto that.
But on second thought, Adriana is the Soto family’s missing child for more than twenty years, so it is only natural that she is not as affectionate to the Soto family.
“And what about you, what do you think about this?”
“I …”
Adriana’s mind recalled the words Raylan said, “I … am still thinking about it.”
After struggling internally for a long time, I still gave a reply against my will.
Adriana would have told Raylan the truth if he hadn’t said he didn’t want to face the business match he was introduced to by his family.
“Consider? Oh, I thought a kid as good as Raylan would be something you’d cherish.”
“If I agree, will old Mr. Powell agree? I have two children, of The Alston family. It’s something that you should know.”
She has two children, and her affair with Peter is well known, old Mr. Powell could not be unaware of it.
Adriana has no reason to lie and no need to hide.
“It’s a straightforward nature.”
old Mr. Powell dismissed it with a smile, “I wouldn’t agree to that. I came here today to ask Ms. Hale to do the old man a favor and convince Raylan to let go.”
In Adriana’s imagination, old Mr. Powell must be a grumpy, overbearing and serious old gentleman.
I didn’t realize that he was quite polite.
Adriana naturally did not refute old Mr. Powell’s face and nodded, “Yes, I’ll give it a try.”
Her answer took old Mr. Powell by surprise.
It was thought that a woman who grew up in a poor family and had children, but could not marry into The Alston family, that was bound to cling to the Powells.
Her reaction was beyond old Mr. Powell’s expectations.
Adriana added: “However, you can’t force a relationship, the Powells have a big family and I’m sure you don’t like the idea of a business marriage. It would be better to give Raylan more time and let him find his own feelings.”
Being good friends with Raylan, Adriana couldn’t help but say a few more words for Raylan.
But when the words fell on old Mr. Powell’s ears, it was a different kind of suspicion.
old Mr. Powell just coldly smiled, “I have my own opinion about Raylan. If you can persuade Raylan to let go, then Ethines park project, I will give you the opportunity to join.”
He gave Adriana a certain benefit after all.
The benefits of being part of Ethines park can be much greater than tens of millions of dollars, and are certainly beneficial to Adriana.
“Thank you old Mr. Powell for your kind words, but, I only do what I have to do in my part.”
She lifted her wrist and looked at the time on her wristwatch, “It’s late, and I have things to do at the office, so I won’t stay with old Mr. Powell. Good-bye.”
He got up, gave a slight jowl to old Mr. Powell, and turned to walk out of the box.
Settled the bill for the box on the way out.
Drive directly to the company’s underground garage, from the negative second floor to take the elevator upstairs smoothly, which avoided those reporters.
Enter the office.
Harlee is not in the office, but Old Mr. Soto is in the office.
Adriana looks at Old Mr. Soto standing by the window, ignores him, walks straight to her desk, puts down her bag, and gets to work.
Although amnesia, only selective forgetting, Adriana can remember everything else.