Channing did not answer and only turned around to look at her. He said after several seconds, âOkay.â
Winnie asked, âDid you look for Chassell?
Channing confirmed, âI did.â
âYou went to look for him...â
Channing said, âYou already asked the second question.â
Winnie was puzzled.
Channing stood up and said, âLet me use the kitchen.â
Winnie paused for a while before realizing that she had been fooled. Channing was indeed smart and could think very quickly.
Winnie looked at his back and rubbed her eyebrows. She was holding back a lot of questions but did not know where to begin.
After a while, the food was delivered.
Winnie collected them and walked to the dining room. She then asked Channing, âWhat are you doing?â
Channing emerged from the kitchen and said, âI wanted to cook two dishes but your fridge is empty. You had some expired frozen food which I already threw them away.
Winnie was speechless and felt embarrassed again.
She then said, âLetâs eat.â
Channing looked at the food and said, âThatâs too much. Pick a few that you wish to eat and keep the rest in the fridge.â
Winnie looked at the dishes and picked some. The rest were brought to the kitchen to cool off before keeping them in the fridge.
Winnie had to control her weight and did not eat much. She said, âDo you want to eat some more?â
âNo need, itâs enough,â Channing replied. They finished the food and none was wasted.
Channing packed up the garbage and then said, âHave an early rest. Iâll leave now.â
Winnie hesitated for a moment before asking, âAre you going straight home?â
Channing paused before acknowledging.
Winnie asked, âWill you be taking a cab?â
âIâll take the subway,â Channing replied.
âOkay.â Winnie looked at the time and said, âThe subway station is five minutes on foot. If your ride home is half an hour and thereafter you take another ten minutesâ walk back, you will need at most forty-five minutes to get home. If you go to the convenience store to buy some snacks, Iâll give you another five minutes. So send me your location after fifty minutes.â
Channing was speechless.
He paused for a minute before saying, âMy place is further away from here.â
âHow far? Is it the neighboring city?â Winnie continued, âSend me your location in fifty minutes or I will look for your sister.â
Channing was silent for several seconds and then said, âAre you checking on me?â
Winnie was stunned, âChecking...â She then realized that this didn't sound right.
She replied calmly, âIâm only concerned about your safety. If you arenât home in time and was involved in a fight outside, how am I going to answer to your sister?â
Channing grinned and replied, âOkay, Iâm leaving.â
Winnie sent him to the door and reminded, âFifty minutes.â
Channing took out his cell phone and said, âIâll share my reaâtime location with you starting from now on.â
âThatâs unnecessary...â
âArenât you concerned over my safety? You will be the first to know if something happened to me.â Channing said.
Winnie then realized he was right. She took out her cellphone and accepted Channingâs location sharing.
Channing kept his cellphone in his pocket and said, âIâm leaving now.â
Winnie waved to him and said, âBye bye.â
After Channing left, Winnie returned to the sitting room and laid on the sofa. She relaxed and browsed her phone. She could see that Channing had already arrived at the subway station.
He was tall and walked rather fast. After two minutes, Channingâs position started to move swiftly along the subway line. Without knowing, Winnie kept staring at his position. She felt strange the further he got from her.
Channing alighted the subway about twenty minutes later. After ten minutes, he arrived at his residential compound and sent a message to Winnie, saying "Iâve arrived".
He was fifteen minutes faster than her estimation.
Channingâs place was indeed out of her way and yet not too far away from her place.
Winnie saw the message notification and quickly tapped to the messaging app and replied, Winnie: Thatâs great. Arenât you working tomorrow? Have an early rest.
Channing: Okay.
Winnie paused before exiting the location sharing. She then went for a shower.
On the other end, Channing saw that the location sharing had terminated. He then kept his phone and left.
...
At night, Caesar sent someone to send Sherryâs phone to her.
On receiving it, Sherry heaved a sigh of relief and said, âI thought that Iâd never get it back again. I have a lot of photos in it.â
She then said to Stella, âStella, take the books back. Iâm not so inclined to educate myself now and wonât waste the time on books anymore. I get all my spiritual sustenance from the phone.â
Stella smiled, âOkay.â
It was late and Stella said, âOkay, feed on your phone tomorrow. Sleep early tonight.â
Sherry charged her phone and laid on the bed, âIâll sleep now. Stella, go back to rest too.â
âNo need, Iâll sleep on the sofa.â
On seeing that Stella was determined, Sherry just mumbled softly, âGoodnight.â
âGoodnight.â Stella turned off the light and laid down on the sofa. She slowly closed her eyes.
They had a good sleep that night.
Sherry was discharged from the hospital three days later.
Back home, she sat onto the sofa and said thankfully, âHome sweet home. It was too boring at the hospital.â
Stella said, âHave a rest while I go and cook.â
Sherry held onto her and said, âIâm already home. You donât have to take care of me. You should have a good rest too.â
âDidnât I rest with you at the hospital?â Apart from having breakfast at the hospital, Stella would go back to prepare lunch and dinner for Sherry. The trips back and forth were very tiring.
Sherry thought for a while and tried another method, âThen you should go to work. We werenât at work these few days. Who knows what became of the studio.â
Stella frowned and asked, âWhat do you think Clarence is doing?â
Sherry was dumbfounded.
She looked at Stella and said with disbelief, âCould Mr. Conrad still be at... the studio?â
Stella said, âYes, otherwise he would be lazing at home anyway.â
Sherry was speechless. She could not imagine Mr. Conrad sitting at that studio handling the trivial work. She was also worried about those female colleagues with salaries in the thousands but faced enormous pressure from Mr. Conrad who was used to handling business deals in the tens of millions.
Stella laughed, âOkay, Iâll prepare our meal.â
Sherry sat on the sofa and played leisurely with her phone.
After a while, she walked to the kitchen and said, âStella, is there any news about Elaine?â
Mr. Conrad Proposes to His Ex-wife Again ï¤Chapter 688: Women Would Cry If They Saw It, Men Would Fall Silent Instead An Eight-year-old Princess ï¤Chapter 1410 Go And Return Quickly Critic ï¤Chapter 105: Missing Drake Stellaâs hand paused and then shook her head gently, âNot yet.â
Over these days, Clarenceâs men had practically turned City N upside down but were still unable to locate Elaine.
Caesar also had not left the hotel.
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