Edith went to held her arms and was about to leave to the door.
But Kenny got up quickly and moved to Gloria at a rapid pace.
“Go home with me.” He stopped her.
“I don’t want to.” With a glacial expression on her face, Gloria kept her eyes on the floor and shook his hands off.
At that second, withering arrived at his eyes but vanished soon. He clenched his fists, unclenched, then again...
“I’ll pick you up later.” He put his words in the softest tone he could ever use, which was almost like he was talking to a baby.
“Let’s go.” Gloria ignored his words and walked to the door, dragging Edith.
Carl glanced at Kenny and was going to say something, but then he did not.
“I’ll walk them out.” He went out, leaving Kenny alone in the house.
Kenny stood still for almost one minute, and then bent his knees to sit down.
Elbows were supported on his knees, and his hands covered his face.
Fragile as he never was...
...
Paparazzi did not found where Carl lived even now.
But he looked around and checked many times before Gloria and Edith left.
He watched Edith’s car drove away and then stood there to make sure no car followed them.
A few minutes later, Carl turned around to his house but saw Kenny walking out of it with a frosty look.
“Sorry to bother you again, Carl, for the next few days.”
Carl knew he was talking about Gloria, for only he could get near Gloria since she did not want to see Kenny recently.
“Ah, come on man, cut the crap. It would be the end of the world if you stop bothering me.” Carl joked.
Kenny replied nothing and was going to keep moving but was stopped by Carl.
“Was it really about Si Chengyu?”
Kenny took a slight pause but still walked away directly without explanation.
He started the car and dialed the number to Si.
One beep only, and Si answered him which was like he was expecting Kenny’s call.
“Aha! Finally.” Si sounded slow and steady and even with a little bit of joy in his tone.
“Where do we meet?” Kenny’s voice could not be colder.
“My place.”
Receiving his answer, Kenny hang up at once and pressed the accelerator harder to Si’s house.
And by the time Si opened the door, Kenny said his hello with a punch in the face.
Si was knocked down on the floor while Kenny closed the door and walked in.
“Why did you do that? You could have come to me!” All his fury and brutality burst out of a sudden.
Suffering from the pain, Si could no longer maintain his expression neutral.
“You?”He coughed a few seconds before getting up from the floor.
“Nah, only when I went to Gloria Taylor you could release your nature like this.” Si put on a weird smile and said.
Kenny grabbed him by the collar and pushed him against the wall. The collar tightened got Si’s face turned blood red.
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Kenny clenched his fists again and again, but instead of hitting Si, he got his hands off him and let him stood on his feet.
“What kind of man are you?” Kenny said through gritted teeth.
“Well it worked, didn’t it?” Si smiled again.
Kenny calmed himself down within a few deep breaths, and then he stared at Si.
“That day, in the tea house. You heard the conversation between Grandpa and Randy Clarke. Was that the reason?”
While Si who was smiling with satisfaction now got his face pale as a ghost after he heard Kenny.
“What did you know!?” Panic showed on his face, and he started to cough, hard.
“You tell me.” Kenny kept pressuring him with a poker face.
The two of them kept eyes on each other for a long time, and then suddenly Si burst into laughter like a maniac.
“You know nothing! And nor the things you wanted to know! You will never know!”Si put his words without hurry and haste, and then he staggered back to his bedroom.
...
Gloria and Edith got to Edith’s house without blocks.
“What do you want to drink?” Edith asked as she brought her slippers.
Gloria took the slippers and shook her head.
Edith poured a cup of water and handed it to Gloria who sitting on the sofa in a trance with a pillow in arms.
“Can you tell me what exactly is going on?” Edith sat down next to her and asked.
Holding the water in hand and crouching on the sofa, Gloria told Edith what she had been through lately and her guesses.
“That’s impossible...” Edith scratched her head fretfully. “Si should be close to Kenny. How could he do this? Why?”
“I know.” Gloria nodded her head.
Even a total stranger like Edith would not believe Si was a bad guy, let alone Kenny who grew up with him.
But Gloria was different.
Edith was loved by his family, and her families loved each other, while though Kenny was kidnapped, he got loves from his father, grandfather, and other relatives.
Only Gloria was an outsider in her family since she was a child, and she had no sense of belonging to it at all. So she had to be independent and brave, which shaped her sensitive character.
She believed her conclusion, and Kenny never denied it.
“Gloria, that’s not what I mean. Come on, put on your happy face.” Seeing her silent again, Edith was worried.
“I’m okay. I’m just tired...” Gloria stretched her mouth but failed to make a smile.
Not even a fake one.