At first sight, Dennis recognized Clara, whose appearance had changed considerably.
But the only image he had left of Clara was what Edgar called a woman who had “abandoned her husband and children”. -“Not all women are suitable”.
That was his irony to the person who betrayed him, and even more so to whether Jamie and his own mother could identify with each other. There was no way he would allow the woman who had left her child and run away for six years to come back to him.
But what he didn’t expect was that Jamie would bring up the chance encounter with “Mom” at home again that night, and Dennis would tell Jamie to forget about the inconsequential people, but he would inexorably recall the face in the car window.
Back at the George Group, Dennis was still thinking about the scene at that intersection, the more he thought about it, the more unknown emotions in his bones, uncontrollable from the limbs throughout his body, electricity mixed with a strong sense of suffocation, he clenched his fists and groaned in pain.
Memories raged in my head like a storm.
“Clara, you’ve grown!”
“I agree to the divorce.”
“Today is Grandpa’s funeral!”
“You think too highly of yourself!”
“The baby is gone …”
“Ahh…!”
A tingling sensation ran through his scalp and Dennis passed out.
It was dawn when I woke up again, and as it became clear, there were memories of the past ten years.
Six years, he actually blamed Clara for six years.
With a dull ceiling in front of his eyes, a cold floor beneath him, and red bloodshot eyes crawling with fishy red, Dennis clenched his fist and slammed it into the floor.
“Waste!”
“Dennis you are a loser!”
I don’t know how long it took until the assistant knocked on the office door and he had to get up from the floor and resume his usual shrewd and competent self.
The person who came in was not Toby, which jolted Dennis into remembering who he is today – the Vance family’s cash cow.
Before the assistant could open his mouth, an angry rebuke came from across the room, “Get out.”
Thinking she heard wrong, the assistant even had the audacity to look up and try to confirm it again, only to meet a pair of furious eyes.
The hands reacted first and the papers scattered to the ground.
The next second, the assistant trembled and picked up the stuff, and backed out without daring to look back.
The office was calm again, but Dennis’ face was not half smiling.
Most of his memories have been retrieved, but why he lost them six years ago, Dennis has no memory in his head, so the first thing he did was to recall Toby to investigate the truth about the explosion on the island that year and the culprit who hypnotized himself.
Before the results came out, Dennis received a tip from his men about “Prince” Jamie and knew that Clara would show up at Kimdock, so he put off all his scheduled trips and showed up in front of her.
Next to the Vance, Dennis tried to restrain himself to stay calm, but the excitement and happiness of losing and regaining was still like a festering anthill.
Clara is standing across from him, the beauty is still the same, but the body has been slim, the eyes are deadly dark.
It was the light that lit up his life, but now it has lost its light.
Dennis slid his throat with difficulty, not even daring to walk in and look at her squarely.
Perhaps blame themselves, or perhaps compete with themselves, Clara most hate which type of people, he will become which type, so that she is forever away from their own center of bad luck.
“If not, do you have access to him?”
“There are so many women who want to be Mrs. George, and you’re kind of a novelty.”
“You are very smart, know how to use your strengths, but unfortunately picked the wrong person, want to be the richest wife, it’s faster to deal with me directly.”
He knew very well that the Clara who said these few words and forgot everything, the Clara who dared to love and hate, would not feel any good about herself.
Dennis’ heart was dripping blood, but a smile appeared on his face.
Just get away from me Clara, forget everything, as you did today with your disdain for me, and go about your life, leaving me to wrangle in the chaos.
If everything goes according to plan, maybe there won’t be so much going against the grain in the underworld.
Dennis wanted to let me go, but still, the moment he saw the information Toby brought back, all the hard-earned decency and stubbornness collapsed.
Even at the risk of everyone noticing the recovered memories, Dennis took Jamie away from the Vance family and moved next door to Hank.
He could not confirm whether Clara really had amnesia, and had to use other means to take Clara away from Hank. To do so, he did not hesitate to alarm the Vance family by moving several private hiding places to find Shaw and the child, so that they could identify each other in front of Clara.
And then what happened after that, the cooperation, the substitutes, those cold words, were all means to make Clara feel at ease to stay by her side with a false identity.
He was afraid that she would remember too quickly, so quickly that he hadn’t had time to process everything.
Leo’s appearance was unexpected by Dennis, who had forgotten about Samuel and Leo’s old friendship, so that Clara’s chances of remembering the past were much greater.
As expected, after Clara met Leo, the whole person changed.
But Dennis does not mind, the more so, the more the pace of the counterattack to speed up, and his first object of attack, is Dorothy.
Dennis knew that Clara had thought of everything, and although she couldn’t let go, she would always have a choice with him.
Choose to leave, or, stay with him.
As expected, but also unexpected, Clara turned back and gave him the most solid peace of mind.
Speaking of which, Dennis and I nestled together on the living room couch, me against his chest and him on my shoulder, snuggling up to each other like a couple in their twilight years who have long survived the elements.
“… The explosion at the mall really made my brain go completely blank for a moment, but you appeared and the big wall blocking the memory palace came crashing down and I remembered everything, including the hypnotized scene.”
Dennis laughed to himself and continued, “It’s funny, what sways my sanity is actually a small pocket watch.”
I was a little disappointed, “I thought what you remembered was the look of the person who hypnotized you.”
Dennis held my shoulders with both hands so that I was facing him on all fours, “Hypnotic objects are to hypnotists what strings are to luthiers, enough to represent a person’s identity, that pocket watch has a very special pattern, there should be a clue soon if you are intent on finding it.”
Seeing his expression so serious, I was suddenly a little uncomfortable, “It still seems like the aggravated superfluous son-in-law is a little more agreeable.”
Dennis did not react for a moment, froze, some tired hooked up the corners of the mouth, once again hugged me tight, “If you are willing to look, from now on I am the Kennedy family’s door-to-door son-in-law, only afraid that you will look soon tired of looking, my jealous and petty look is.”
“No!” I shook my head hard, “that way you are more real, more like really living, can see you so day by day, I am happy day by day.”
Dennis’s arms contracted a bit, circling me tighter, and the voice squeezed out of his throat was low and hoarse, “Finally, I’m not feeling your heartbeat in my dreams …”