Malcolm hesitated for a moment but understood Rosalind’s feelings, so he agreed.
“Alright then! I’ll book a room for you with my ID, and I’ll stay at my friend’s place. This way, you won’t be tracked.”
“Thank you, Malcolm.”
“Don’t say anything! I don’t want to hear your thanks.”
After hanging up the phone, Rosalind looked at her mobile, feeling heavy-hearted.
Since she didn’t plan to accept Malcolm, she should have drawn a clear line with him early on! But now… she still needed his help in many ways.
Sometimes Rosalind felt her conscience couldn’t bear it! She couldn’t ignore the guilt her conscience brought her.
Wasn’t this just delaying him?
…
After Ulric met Johnny, Johnny had already checked all the suspicious surveillance around.
But…
The person who took the child seemed well-prepared. When they came to the hotel, they were fully armed, and when they left with the child, they deliberately avoided the surveillance cameras!
In the end, there was no information.
“Ulric, do you think it’s possible that this person wants to use the child to blackmail you?”
Ulric glanced at Johnny, his brows tightly furrowed.
“No one has contacted me.”
“Maybe it’s not time yet?”
“What do you mean by ‘not time’?” Ulric retorted. “If according to you, the child is about five or six years old, then… during that time, I hadn’t divorced Rosalind yet. So this child is Rosalind’s?”
Johnny shook his head firmly.
“It’s not hers! She gave birth to a daughter, not a son. And it’s not your child either.”
Of course, Johnny didn’t dare to say the latter part.
He had already messed up Ulric’s matter and didn’t dare to provoke him further.
“Besides her, I never had another woman.”
When Ulric said this, there was no hesitation or awkwardness.
He felt that being faithful to love wasn’t something to be ashamed of.
“You’ve only ever had… one woman?! Only Rosalind?!” Johnny repeated in shock.
“Yes.”
“So you’ve never been drunk and mistook another woman for Rosalind?” Johnny thought that a child couldn’t just appear out of nowhere; there must have been some relationship involved.
However, it might be something Ulric wasn’t aware of.
Ulric’s dark eyes looked at him calmly. “When you’re drunk and sleep with a woman, would you really not know?”
“…” That was true.
Because when a man is truly drunk, he can’t even react! How could he possibly have relations with someone?
If he’s not completely drunk, then he would know what the woman he slept with looks like!
Even if he didn’t consider anything else, he would consider whether the woman was clean and what her identity was.
“So you’re sure this child is five or six years old?”
Johnny shook his head like a rattle.
“No no no, I’m just roughly estimating! He doesn’t know anything either; I don’t know if he’s deliberately not telling me or if he really doesn’t know! If he’s your child, then naturally he’d be taller than other kids. It’s normal for me to estimate wrong!”
“Do you think…”
Ulric felt a faint sense of expectation in his heart. He hoped for an answer so much that he didn’t dare think too much about it for fear of disappointment!