Paige was shaken, and fear filled her eyes. “Yes, yes! But I couldn’t help it. If I disagreed to that, I’d be taken away to jail by the police.”
Slap!
Carol slapped her face.
She viciously said, “What does it matter to me if you go to jail or not? What I care about is my fifty billion! Now, you have messed it all up. What will you compensate me with? With your life?”
Paige trembled while looking at her husband’s corpse.
She then kneeled heavily on the ground. “No, no! Carol, I’m your aunt. I’m your aunt. There are not many people left in our family. Please, don’t kill me! Don’t you forget, when you were small, I loved you very much.”
Carol laughed coldly.
Then she said, “Okay, then you come with me. I want you to do one thing for me!”
***
It was almost ten o’clock when they arrived at the night market street.
Alex was not familiar with this place, plus it has been a few years since he last came here. He had forgotten about this place a long time ago. However, at this hour, there were still many people who were shopping.
Among the shoppers, most of them were young couples. One glance and one would recognize that these are college students from the school nearby.
When Maya arrived here, her mood was particularly good. She talked a lot more than usual and chatted all the way. She spoke about some exciting things inside the school. The two held hands while walking in the night market, just like a couple in love.
“Hey, do you still remember where we first met?” Maya suddenly asked.
“The first time we met?” Alex scratched his head. “The library?”
Maya shook her head and laughed lightly. “Try again.”
“The student union meeting room?”
“Nope.”
“Basketball court?”
“Nope.”
“Female bathroom?”
“Screw you!” Maya rolled her eyes and gave him a pinch. “I knew you wouldn‘t remember. It was here!”
Alex froze. “Here? At night market street?”
He really didn’t remember anything.
Maya then pulled him toward the south side of the night market and stopped in front of a noodle shop called ‘Quois Haven’. Pointing to the plaque, she said, “Here! This is where we first met. ”
Alex was stunned. This was because he still could not recall anything at all.
“Did I come here before?”
This time, Maya gave him a hard blank stare. Immediately after that, she dragged him into Quois Haven!
“Daddy, I am here to see you!”
As soon as Maya entered, she shouted in a delicate voice.
Alex became even more surprised. Maya’s father couldn’t be here, right?
He saw that the store’s decoration was exceptional with antique style. There were shades of bamboo everywhere. It seemed that the owner of this store had a love for bamboo, and the environment inside the shop was very nice, clean, and had a sense of idyllic.
Until this moment. Alex finally remembered that he seemed to have been here before.
Just at this moment.
Several customers in the store stood up and greeted Maya with enthusiasm.
“Maya, you’re finally here!”
“We’ve been waiting for you for a long time. If you didn’t come sooner, we would have thought that you’re not coming at all!”
“Happy birthday, Maya!”