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Allen raised an eyebrow immediately.
“Why don’t you contact her?”
Dr. White helplessly pulled out her phone. “I’ve called her more than ten times today, and not a single one went through.”
These words made Allen’s heart skip a beat. It felt as if something was slowly slipping away from him.
He irritably spun the pen in his hand. “If you can’t reach her, then don’t bother. Claire is an adult; whatever she’s done, she’s capable of bearing the consequences.”
Dr. White didn’t expect Allen to say something like this. She sighed and spoke
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from experience, “When Claire really leaves, you’ll regret it.”
After Dr. White left his office, Allen fell into a
daze.
Her words echoed in his mind.
Claire was leaving?
Claire was going to leave him?
Suddenly, he felt unsure, even terrified to imagine such a reality.
Just then, Evelyn’s voice on the phone interrupted his thoughts.
“Allen, do you think Claire is running away from home? She must hate me, she’s probably trying to force me out by doing this. Maybe I should just move out,” she timidly
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said.
Allen’s frantic heart calmed in an instant.
He spoke into the phone, “Move out? This is my home, I call the shots!”
Evelyn continued chattering in his ear, but Allen barely responded, offering only perfunctory replies.
Finally, after hanging up, Allen stared blankly at his phone.
The chat interface still displayed the voice message he had sent to Claire three days. ago–a simple “okay”
After a long pause, Allen typed out a few words. He sent the message, then quickly retracted it.
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If it had been before, Claire would have immediately called him back or replied with a
message.
But this time, Allen waited for nearly an hour, and still, there was no reply. His phone remained silent, empty.
Meanwhile, Claire, pushing her suitcase, was already at the airport, going through security to board her flight.
She had seen the message from Allen but deliberately chose not to reply.
In fact, she didn’t pick up any of her colleagues’calls either.
Claire didn’t want to jeopardize her plan at the final moment. She knew that any news about her at the hospital would soon make its way to Allen’s ears.
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Just like the last time she had casually complained about Evelyn to a colleague, and that very evening, Allen had turned cold toward her. He had scolded her for gossiping behind people’s backs, saying only petty people did that.
This time, Claire had decided to leave without a word.
She was about to turn off her phone when she saw another message from Allen..
This one hadn’t been retracted.
[Where are you right now, Claire? Don’t you have anything you want to say to me?]
Ignoring it, she turned off her phone and the screen instantly went black.
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Claire gazed out the airplane window. She knew exactly what Allen meant with his message–he wanted her to lower her pride and apologize. But she wasn’t going to do that.
Everything she needed to say to Allen had already been left at home five hours ago.
Including their engagement rings, which she had removed and placed on the nightstand.
And the handwritten engagement dissolution agreement she had written herself.
Claire suddenly felt a strange curiosity.
What kind of expression would Allen have when he saw that engagement dissolution agreement?
Meanwhile, Allen, absent–mindedly holding
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his phone, was lost in thought.
The ringtone suddenly blared, startling him back to reality.
But when he saw Evelyn’s name on the screen, Allen instinctively furrowed his brows.
