Chapter 16 Goodbye, Desmond
Sitting on the sofa, Guadalupe finished her pie.
She wanted to ask Miguel but hesitated.
She wondered, “What does Ezequiel mean exactly?
“He gave me his measurement but didn’t want me to buy him a new suit?
“Is this some kind of a joke?”
She didn’t know what was on Ezequiel’s mind, and she didn’t wanna know it now. She thought this suit would probably be the last intersection between them.
Suddenly, she heard footsteps coming towards the living
room.
She immediately closed the chat box and put down her legs.
As soon as Desmond came, he asked straightforwardly, “Where are your clothes, shoes, bags, jewelry, and stuff?”
Hearing his question, Guadalupe felt like her heart just skipped a beat.
She thought, “He found out about that?
“Wait, what’s wrong with this guy today? Why did he suddenly come back for dinner and check the wardrobe upstairs?”
Though her mind was filled with various thoughts, she still
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pretended to look confused and replied, “The clothes and shoes were taken for dry cleaning, and the bags and jewelry were taken for maintenance.”
“All of them?”
“Yeah. Can’t I? I’m bored alone here, you know? So I tidied up the house. I couldn’t remember which ones I had worn, so I simply sent them all for cleaning. As for those bags and jewelry, it’s been a long time. The diamonds no longer shone, and the bags all wore out a bit. So I sent them all for repair and maintenance.”
Guadalupe’s words made some sense.
Desmond didn’t think she had any reason to lie to him.
Besides, he asked only because he felt a bit strange. Thus, after hearing Guadalupe’s reply, he believed it.
Guadalupe had indeed been idle at home these days. Desmond remembered that every time she came home, she would run up and down to tidy up the house.
After thinking this through, Desmond said, “No rush. There will be plenty of time in the future, so take your time.”
Guadalupe replied, “Well, I’ll be off for a trip in a couple of days. I wanna clean up the house before I go.”
There was nothing odd with her words. But somehow, Desmond just felt uncomfortable in his heart.
When he saw the dark blue bag on the sofa, I bent a little, wanting to get it. “Is this for…”
“No!” Guadalupe subconsciously interrupted him and leaned
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over to stop his movement.
The next second, the two of them froze in place.
Desmond’s face was extremely cold.
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Guadalupe immediately reacted and added, “It’s for my dad.”
Hearing this, Desmond was very disappointed and asked, “For your dad? What about me? I’m your husband, remember?”
Guadalupe asked back, “Are you short of suits?”
She guessed that there might be more suits he left in Belinda’s bedroom than at home.
Desmond suddenly didn’t know how to reply.
But Guadalupe didn’t want his reply anyway. She directly took the suit from the sofa, put on her slippers, and ran upstairs.
She went to her own study. After a moment, when she heard the sound of a car driving away, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The next day was Sunday, and the weather was good.
Guadalupe went to her and Desmond’s high school.
There were no classes today. But on the way, she could still meet some students wearing school uniforms.
She walked leisurely on the campus and went to many places that carried her memories with Desmond, such as the
classroom they had sat in together, the tree–lined path they
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had walked on together, and the playground they had run on together.
In the end, she came to a grove by the artificial lake and dug out the box they had buried together in a secluded corner.
That was on the eve of the college entrance examination. During self–study in the evening, Desmond took Guadalupe here. At that time, the surroundings were pitch black, and they used their phones to get some light, squatted, and wrote something on paper.
He told her that they could dig this box out together twenty years later.
At that time, the light was dim, but Desmond’s eyes were shining.
Coming back from her memories, Guadalupe smiled and took away her box.
She said in her heart, “Goodbye, Desmond.”
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At the same time, Desmond was sitting in the project manager’s office.
The blinds were drawn, and the door was closed.
The people in the Project Department were so quiet, daring
not to make a sound.
Desmond was looking at Belinda’s project proposal with a deep frown.
Belinda didn’t take this seriously. She leaned on his shoulder
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while keeping touching his body with her fingers.
Belinda was not as pretty as Guadalupe, but she was much more flirtatious than Guadalupe. She was very bold when flirting with men.
To some men, their hearts and bodies might not necessarily be faithful to the same woman.
“Des, do you wanna try it here…” Belinda whispered while moving her hand down along Desmond’s abdomen.
But Desmond snapped at her, “Stop it!”
He was not in the mood right now. After pushing away her hand, he slammed the project proposal onto the table and asked Belinda with restrained anger, “This shit is the proposal you wrote for eight days?”
He knew Belinda was not as professional as Guadalupe. But he didn’t expect Belinda to be so stupid.
Like he just said, this project proposal was shit.
He rubbed his forehead and couldn’t help but miss the days when Guadalupe was still in charge of the Project
Department.
Being reprimanded, Belinda pouted her mouth unhappily.
At this time, Desmond’s phone rang. He glanced at the caller ID and then walked to the window to pick up the phone. “Shoot.”
“Ms. Melton went out again today. She went to a high school and spent a lot of time there. After getting out, she went to Primrose Heights. The houses there are very expensive, and
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the security is very strict. Only house owners can get in there,” the person, who had been monitoring Guadalupe, reported.
Desmond felt a bit strange, wondering, “What high school? Primrose Heights?”
Suddenly, he realized something, and his eyes turned sharp. “Only house owners can get in? What if she knows someone who’s a house owner there?”
“Then she might be registered and would be allowed to get in.”
“Send me the address. Keep doing your job.””
“Got it.”
Desmond hung up the phone. Belinda’s stupid project proposal and Guadalupe’s abnormality really made him irritated.
He turned around, only to find Belinda being so close to him right now. She hugged his waist and pouted, “Why do you still care about her? You don’t love her anymore, do you?”
Desmond suppressed his disgust and pulled Belinda’s hands off him. Then, he tightly pressed her shoulders with both hands and said to her seriously, “Rework the project prop sal. Be more serious this time. If there’s anything you don’t understand, ask the team leaders of the Project Department for help.”
With that, he left with a cold face.
Meanwhile, Belinda was so angry that she smashed all the things in the office.
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She thought angrily, “Ask for help? He wants me to ask those low–class people for help?
“Wait…
“The team leaders of the Project Department were all Guadalupe’s people. So Des wants me to ask Guadalupe’s people for help?”
She immediately called in those three team leaders through an internal phone call and reprimanded them all. The leader of team one, Tess Zamora, couldn’t help but retort a few words, and she got slapped by Belinda.
When the other two team leaders saw this, they were both angry but didn’t dare to say anything.
At this moment, Belinda was no different from a madwoman in their eyes.
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Guadalupe put her own box on a shelf in her new home.
She didn’t intend to throw it away or burn it.
The content on that paper and her life weren’t just about Desmond.
Suddenly, her phone rang. It was a call from Desmond.
Guadalupe thought maybe Desmond had sensed that their marriage was about to come to an end.
She didn’t answer the phone, nor did she hang up on it.
After a while, the phone stopped ringing. But she got a
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message.
Guadalupe rolled her eyes and looked at the phone, only to
find that it was a text reply from Miguel.
So, this was a new hint from Ezequiel?
