Chapter 504 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

Chapter 504 – His Second Chance Love: The Freezing Silence

Hence, the Murphys’ company was situated in twin towers right in the heart of a busy city centre in A City.

In the twin towers, there were two other companies other than the Murphys’ company. One was an IT company, and the other was an energy resources company.

The luxurious office building consisted of hundreds of floors, and it was owned exclusively by these three companies.

I spent the entire morning being briefed about my new job as Armond’s secretary. And by noon, I took the advantage of break time to get myself a SIM card.

With a phone in hand, the first thing I did was to call the police.

Although I did not know if the so-called policewomen were real or fake, they convicted others in private and expelled others from the country, and the act itself was already an illegal act.

After obtaining the SIM card, I managed to log in to my google account. Fortunately, the account was linked to my google pay, thus it made things a lot easier for me.

Ever since I left K City, I had not responded to anyone’s message from K City, nor had I posted anything on Instagram.

Countless messages kept popping up on my phone, and they were all messages from K City over the past two months.

Most of the messages were from Anthony. I clicked into it and quickly read the messages. There were mostly photos of him and Summer, and the rest were daily greetings and checking in on me.

I read the messages carefully, and by the time I read the last message, it seemed that the message was sent recently and he seemed to be doing fine.

I pondered for a moment before replying to his message.

“I’m fine, don’t worry about me.” Other than that, I didn’t know what else to say.

After that, I sent messages to both Emery and Hannah to tell them that I was safe and sound.

The police arrived not long after I made the call. They were here to take statements from me.

Savini at Animus was surprised to see that I was back. He was even more surprised that I had led the police to him.

The moment he saw me, he was so shocked that he dropped the papers that were in his hands. He looked at me with utter astonishment and stuttered, “Sienna, you…you…”

I smiled faintly and said, “Thanks to you, I’m still alive.”

The police stepped forward and arrested him after they read him his rights. As for the group of policewomen, they were gone by the time the police arrived.

It appeared that they had left earlier.

Just as I was leaving the police station, Anthony called.

I memorized his phone number by heart and knew that it was him by just a glance at the numbers.

I was in a dilemma, to answer or not to answer the call.

After a moment, I answered the call.

Without many words, he asked in a low voice, and it sounded as familiar as ever.

“Where are you?”

I was distracted for a moment as I looked up at the August sky in A City. Suddenly I realized that time seemed to have passed for a long time.

“I’m back in the country.” When we met in Venria, there were no words spoken. He must have been worried.

There was a moment of silence on the other side of the phone before he asked, “Shall I come and find you?”

I pursed my lips and replied, “No. I’m fine, don’t worry about me.”

“I want to see you.” He sounded like he was trying to stifle his emotions.

I want to see you.

It’s been a long time since I heard such sentimental words. I smiled as my heart filled with warmth.

“I’m fine, Anthony. Really.” I had wanted to tell him to live our own lives separately, but I knew that it would inevitably anger him.

“I’m not fine.” He sounded grouchy and emotional at the end of his tether. “Sienna, everyone has their limits. I let you go when you wanted to leave. I was even willing to wait for you here. But you can’t continue to be away like this. The night-time loneliness is killing me and I don’t want to count on my memories to get past the nights. I want to see you, and I mean now.”

I was dumbfounded for a moment. This was the first time for me to hear Anthony pouring out his feelings with no reservations, and his voice had an edge to it.

If he was in front of me at this moment, I would have pulled him into a tight embrace and tell him that I miss him too.

“Thank you for taking good care of Summer, Anthony.” I changed the subject. I was afraid that I would not be able to control myself and tell him that I missed him. I was also afraid that if I were to appear in his life again, his world would be turned upside down.

He should be living a happy, married life, surrounded by children. But I was unable to give him a happy marriage, and I couldn’t even bear him any children. Leaving him was the best choice.

I could hear him asking in a rough voice, “Are you punishing me, Sienna? If so, then tell me what I need to do so that you’ll come back to me?”

I was stunned and didn’t know what else to say. After a moment of silence, I decided to end the call as I was afraid to continue having this conversation with him. “I have to go, Anthony. I’m hanging up now.”

And with that, I hung up the phone and felt the sudden urge to cry. When did I become such a coward?

How pathetic!

Back at the company, Armond looked at me and asked irritably, “Sienna, care to explain yourself?”

It was supposed to be a one-hour lunch break, but I ended up spending two hours making a police report. I was terribly late by the time I made it back to the office.

There was a deep frown on his face, he was clearly upset.

I told him everything, sparing no details, but he was still angry. “Whatever it is, it’s irresponsible of you to leave your post during working hours.”

I apologized profusely for my behavior. Knowing that he was angry, I chose to stay silent.

When he saw that I remained silent after being chastised, he stopped himself and said, “Go to Linda for handover. You’re considered skipping work for today.”

I was dumbfounded. I was away from work for an hour, and that’s considered skipping work? These capitalists are vicious!

After all, he’s the boss, and I made a mistake. No excuses there.

After handing over the work to Linda, Nora called.

“Do you have any plan tonight, Sienna? Let’s have dinner.”

I thought for a while and said dejectedly, “Actually, I really want to go to dinner with you. But I might have something on tonight.”

Armond had said that I would need to be on call twenty-four hours a day, and there’s no telling when exactly he was going to call me.

“Oh!” She sounded disappointed. “What’s occupying your time? I’ve made plans to meet up with Tabitha and Laurel, and we’re going to Zero Degrees tonight. After our near-death experience, what can be more important than being alive and happy? You’d better not turn me down.”

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