Chapter 66: Are You Her?
Blanche Capra, at last unable to support herself, slid down against the wall and crouched on the floor.
In her hand, however, she was still squeezing the file tightly.
Blanche Capra remembers very clearly that on the day of her father’s accident, she was delayed outside for a long, long time because she was sheltering from the rain in a phone booth, as well as not being able to afford to call home again. It wasn’t until late in the evening, when the rain had tapered off, that she stood inside and saw a man standing at the far end of the long street. There was no way she could mistake that familiar, almost heart-engraved figure, so she joyfully ran over to him in the light rain, trying to reach him as fast as she could.
York Charlie’s expression was a bit cold when he saw her, he frowned his nice eyebrows and looked at her as if he was going to open his mouth to say something, but in the next moment, a person suddenly came out from behind him and approached him affectionately, the umbrella in his hand reaching out to cover both of them. The rain fell thinly, like a curtain separating the two worlds. He stood with her under the umbrella, and she stood in the rain.
Brandi was not really a very lively person, and in her relationship with York Charlie, she was even cautious; she was afraid that if she did something wrong, she would cause him to dislike her, and she was also afraid that if she didn’t do anything, he would suddenly leave her. In fact, something like that happened later. So that time, Brandi watched the two of them, York Charlie and Shireen Miller, clinging to each other, unblinking, but not saying a word, hoping he would explain something to her, and just stood there in front of them, not moving a muscle.
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And how she never expected that York Charlie would not even explain, but just faintly say, “Go home early.” Then he turned away. There was only one umbrella above his head, but it covered two people. That person … was Shireen Miller, whom he never saw in his eyes, and that person … was actually not her. And now, she became the person who wandered away from his world, she stood in the rain like this soaking wet, but he was indifferent.
At that time, she was heartbroken, but more angry. How could she not have imagined, though, that from that day on, her world her life would be turned upside down. Something happened to her father at home, and York Charlie started to pull away from her more and more from that day on, hurting her more and more, and finally breaking up.
Within a month, it was over, and Brandi, with the destruction of the Russell family, died for good. …
Blanche Capra crouched on the ground, never shed a tear, her eyes grey, the whole person is lost, as if it is an empty shell. I don’t know how long it was until the sound of footsteps in the aisle outside grew closer and closer, and Blanche Capra moved violently as if she had risen from the dead again.
She stood up, then reassembled the papers in her hand and stood expressionlessly beside her desk. York Charlie then pushes his way in.
The Blanche Capra that York Charlie saw at the moment struck him as odd, not angry and annoyed as he had expected, but without any expression at all. He tried to take a closer look at her, but Blanche Capra handed him a bag of papers, uttering the words in a slightly hoarse voice.
“This was just slipped through the door, and I was a little curious, so I read it.”
York Charlie reaches for it, still wondering what it is, only to have it appear in black and white in front of him, his heart tightens violently and his face hardens, and the next moment he goes to look at Blanche Capra’s face.
York Charlie asked her, “You read it?”
Blanche Capra nodded with little emotion, “Looked.”
“You have nothing to say?” York Charlie really couldn’t see anything on her face, but it just didn’t feel right. And, he desperately needed to know, was she Brandi or not?
Blanche Capra opened her mouth and then paused for half a moment, looking very hesitant, before she said, “I see there’s a the Russell Group in there, which is unfortunately headed for bankruptcy because it was robbed of its industry by you, the Charlie Group, and it’s also implicated a the Russell family She stared at him and asked, “Is that true?”
York Charlie heard her ask that, but froze for a moment before speaking slowly, “Pretty much.”
Blanche Capra asked sensitively, “Pretty much? Is there something inside?”
York Charlie inclines her head to look at her, she really seems to be just a little curious about this matter, her heart is suddenly a little annoyed, and she says faintly, “There’s nothing to say, you wait for me for a while, let’s go and have dinner together after work?”
Blanche Capra asked half a day, did not think York Charlie and do not want to say, want to ask did not get an answer, which still have the heart to wait for him to eat dinner together, so lightly laughed and said, “do not want to say even if, I am not interested in knowing you the Charlie Group that point of the shit thing, but also really powerful ah, are causing people to The family is broken … I’ll take a taxi back by myself, it’s too boring here, I don’t want to wait.”
York Charlie’s heart sank at the first half of what she said, and hearing her say she wanted to go back on her own, he pulled her back.
Very hard, and I don’t know why I did.
Blanche Capra, however, looked as if she was afraid of the pain, and turned her face as tears rolled down her face, but her face still had that same look of disinterest. York Charlie saw the watery glow on her face and suddenly panicked; he had never seen Blanche Capra look like this before. How did she manage to shed tears with such a clouded expression?
“What’s wrong with you?” He asked, staring at her.
Blanche Capra was tempted to answer, What’s wrong? Because she suddenly felt that she wanted so badly to hear the whole story from his own lips, even his complete past with Brandi, and she wanted to know if, in the end, the story he was telling would be different from what she had seen? Or to be more precise, she wanted to ask him about the cruelty and harm he did back then, did he have any hard feelings?
But she couldn’t ask, she couldn’t ask. For the first time, she felt that she was so close to the truth, but she couldn’t touch it, which made her have a kind of powerless despair; she also found for the first time that she had been vaguely expecting him to have any unspoken bitterness, which made her fall into a deep sorrow, this kind of anticipation, which was simply going to cut off her way of life, she seemed to even take revenge on him for this matter is ridiculous… …
Even the revenge is ridiculous, then she lived, live until now, and what is the meaning of it?
York Charlie did not know when he had already embraced her in his arms, she opened her eyes to look at him through the haze of tears, wanting to stop shedding tears this kind of behaviour as if she was stripped naked, but how could she not help it. The more she tried, the more she realized she couldn’t help it, the more pain she felt, and the more pain she felt, the more the tears flowed.
Blanche Capra’s heart sprang up and her hands kept going to pound York Charlie’s body, but York Charlie held her tighter, she couldn’t help but choke on her tears and finally cried out.
“Don’t cry, don’t cry …,” York Charlie comforted her extremely gently.
For a while, Blanche Capra’s emotions finally calmed down. York Charlie sensed her quietness before slowly releasing her. When he went to look at her again, her eyes were red and the marks on her face were getting redder and a little swollen.
York Charlie felt heartbroken, but this kind of her had to make him doubt that she was really Brandi, and if she wasn’t Brandi, then why was she suddenly so out of control?
So he endured his heartache to ask her, “Tell me, are you … her? Are you Brandi?”