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Chapter 367
Tina and Peter were taken aback when they heard Clifford’s words.
The two looked at each other and saw surprise in each other’s eyes.
Tina met Alyssa when she was in high school. Before that, Alyssa had been alone and didn’t seem to have any friends.
But Clifford’s tone didn’t sound like a lie at all.
Clifford continued: “As for how I met her, I think there is no need to tell Miss Weber.”
When he spoke, his eyes were still staring at the elevator door, calm and indifferent, but there was a calm tone in his tone.
“Mr. Dixon, you…”
Tina was about to say something when she was interrupted by the sound of the elevator arriving.
Clifford turned his head to look at Tina, and said faintly: “Here.”
The three got out of the elevator.
Tina walked to Clifford and blocked the way: “How do I know if you are lying.”
“If it weren’t because you were her friend, I might not give you the opportunity to question me.” Clifford’s face was no longer indifferent, a haze clouded over his eyes, and he looked angry.
Tina’s expression changed slightly: “Since you know she has friends, why didn’t you contact us when you found her?”
“Why should I contact you? What are my responsibilities and obligations?” Clifford curled his lips, showing a mocking smile.
“you……”
Without waiting for Tina to say the next words, Peter was pulled behind him.
Peter’s face was not so good, “At least, we and Alyssa are true friends, how about you?”
Clifford directly ignored Peter’s question, and raised his wrist to check the time: “I still have a few patients who have appointments in the afternoon, so I won’t send them.”
After he finished speaking, he strode towards the parking lot.
Peter turned his head and looked at Tina. Seeing worry on her face, he couldn’t help but said aloud: “Or, shall we take Alyssa away?”
“Alyssa will not go with us. No matter how Clifford and Alyssa met, I can see that he is really good to Alyssa and will not do anything to harm her.”
Tina paused and said, “Besides, Clifford has taken care of Alyssa for three years, so we just took Alyssa away. It’s not kind.”
Just then, Peter’s cell phone rang.
He answered the phone, not knowing what was said on the other end of the phone, he replied, “Well, send it to me now.”
“What?” Tina asked him curiously.
Peter replied: “I asked Clifford’s information to be checked.”
When the two returned to the car, Peter received an email from his subordinates.
As he watched it, he read: “Clifford, PhD in criminal psychology, once hired by a criminal investigation team as a criminal psychology consultant…”
At the end, Peter couldn’t help but look at Clifford differently: “The resume is very innocent, and he is a talent.”
“Yeah.” Tina couldn’t help but nodded.
But the doubts in her heart became more and more serious.
…
Alyssa’s life went smoothly.
During the day when Clifford went to work in the treatment room, Alyssa was alone at home with a small range of activities.
Maybe because life is more comfortable, her body is getting better and better. Although she still looks thin, it is much better than when she was just discharged from the hospital.
After Tina asked for her call, she often called her.
That day, when Clifford went out with his feet, she received a cold call behind her.
“Alyssa, come out to go shopping, I’ll pick you up.”
Alyssa didn’t really like to go out, but Tina was too enthusiastic, so she had to agree.
Tina came very quickly, Alyssa even suspected that Tina was pinching a little bit, and only came to see her after Clifford went out.
As soon as she got in the car, Tina pretended to ask casually: “How are you getting along with Mr. Dixon?”
Alyssa buckled her seat belt and replied, “It’s okay.”
She felt that she and Clifford did not look like unmarried couples at all, but rather like shared roommates, having dinner together, and not communicating much.
But this way of getting along made him feel at ease.
“So…” Tina paused, then glanced at her wanting to say, but in the end she didn’t say anything.
The two went to the mall together.
Tina still loves shopping, pulling Alyssa to try a lot of clothes.
Everything went well, except when she was out of the mall, she met a reporter.
In the past three years, Tina’s acting career has flourished, and now she is a first-line actress, and some reporters always squat for her.
“Run!” Tina pulled Alyssa and ran back.
“What’s wrong?” Although Alyssa didn’t figure out what was going on, she still ran with her.
Tina had to explain to Alyssa: “They are here to chase me, I’m an actor, recently…it’s a bit red.”
During this time, Alyssa didn’t follow the drama except occasionally watching the news, so she didn’t know that Tina was an actor.
There were already many people in the mall. The reporter ran after Tina, and the scene was a bit chaotic for a while.
This directly caused Alyssa and Tina to separate.
When Alyssa looked back, there was still a cold figure.
She found a corner to call Tina.
The call was quickly connected.
Tina’s tone was a little anxious: “Alyssa, I’m in the parking lot, where are you?”
“I’m still in the mall.” Alyssa breathed a sigh of relief when she said that.
Tina said, “Come here, I’ll wait for you in the car.”
“No, you go first, and I will go back by myself, lest the reporters come to you again…”
Of course Tina didn’t want to go first by herself, but in the end she was moved by Alyssa’s reason to call her back home.
Alyssa hung up the phone, turned around and saw a little girl holding a puppet, standing in a corner not far away looking at her.
The little girl is wearing a trolls blue and white striped coat, underneath is pink blue shorts just reaching her knees, her eyes are round and dark, her baby’s fat face is fleshy, her black hair is on her shoulders and her forehead. Covered with a layer of soft bangs…
She was looking at Alyssa curiously, her small appearance looked extremely cute.
Alyssa compared her height and guessed that she might be three or four years old.
Alyssa looked around and found that there was no adult, so she walked over to her and asked her, “Kid, where are your parents?”
Looking closer, Alyssa realized that the little girl was familiar.
There was a flash of light in her mind, and the little dud face in front of her coincided with the face she saw the day she was discharged from the hospital.
No way……
Is this Karl’s daughter?
What is she called, it seems to be “Grace”.
Grace tilted his head and looked at Alyssa for a few seconds, then suddenly squinted and laughed: “Pretty sister…”
Alyssa’s heart moved, this little dumpling still remembers her?
She remembered that this little dumpling called her that day.
Chapter 368
Alyssa couldn’t help but laughed, stretched out her hand and gently touched her hair, and asked her: “Do you remember me?”
The little girl nodded, put her hand directly into her arms, and said grievously: “Look for green pepper.”
Alyssa was a little dazed by this sudden hug.
A small ball of meat in her arms is holding her neck and looking at her with a dependent expression.
Are children so easy to be relatives now?
Most women have no resistance to cute things, let alone a cute little girl.
The little girl spoke too fast, Alyssa did not understand what she was saying, so she asked, “Who are you talking about?”
“Kalr.” Grace said seriously again.
Alyssa was taken aback for a moment, and realized that she was talking about Karl, and laughed out loudly, “What’s your name?”
“Grace.” Grace said honestly.
Seeing Grace’s honesty, Alyssa couldn’t help but feel a little worried.
How could a daughter raised from a wealthy family like the Adams’ family be so honest? She should be smarter.
Alyssa picked her up and asked her, “You came with your father?”
Grace shook her head.
Alyssa is a bit difficult, where can she take Grace to find Karl?
Should go to Adams’s House.
But she didn’t know where Adams’s House was.
Even if she went there, she might not be able to see Karl.
At this time, they happened to pass a restaurant, and the billboard outside the restaurant had pictures of French fries.
Grace pointed at the French fries with bright eyes, and said straightly, “Fries!”
Alyssa saw that she wanted to eat French fries, and it was already time for dinner, so Alyssa hugged her in.
She didn’t know how to find Karl and the other people in Adams’ family, so she just brought Grace to dinner first.
Alyssa ordered French fries, fried rice and soup.
Alyssa hadn’t taken care of the child before, and she had to feed Grace with a spoon, but in a blink of an eye, she saw Grace was already holding the chopsticks into her mouth.
She put her left hand into a small fist and placed it on the dining table, holding the chopsticks in her right hand in a standard posture, leaning to the edge of the bowl with her mouth open, and quickly picking rice into her mouth.
But at the end of her age, half of the rice that caught her mouth was spilled on the ground, and the corners of her mouth were still covered with rice grains.
Alyssa was cute, with a smile on her face unconsciously, she asked the waiter to take a small bowl of soup, stirred it with a spoon, and gave Grace a drink when the soup became cooler.
She used to see children eating big mouths at other people’s families, and she thought it was very cute, not to mention that Grace herself looked like a doll in the painting. She felt that she didn’t need to eat, she could be full just by looking at Grace.
Alyssa tasted it by herself, feeling that the soup was already warm, she took a spoonful of it to Grace’s mouth, and said softly: “Eat slower and have some soup.”
Grace drank the soup and continued to eat.
Alyssa sat next to Grace and watched for a long time, but she didn’t eat much of her meal.
When Grace had almost eaten, Alyssa asked the waiter to bring the French fries.
Children love this kind of snack food, but they can’t eat more. After Grace has a full meal, she can’t eat much French fries. Later, she just ate the French fries with ketchup.
Seeing that she was full, Alyssa asked her, “Where are we going to find your father?”
Alyssa was just casual, and she didn’t think Grace would know.
In the next moment, Grace handed the puppet that she had been holding to Alyssa: “Call.”
Alyssa glanced at the puppet she handed over. It was a pink-blue little tiger puppet, very cute.
She took it and asked Grace, “Do you use this?”
“Yeah.” Grace nodded quickly, looking at her expectantly.
Alyssa looked at the little tiger puppet in her hand, looking awkward.
She thought to herself, it might be that Karl used this little tiger to tease Grace…
Thinking like this, she unconsciously squeezed the little tiger twice, only to touch a hard object.
Alyssa squeezed again, confirming that there was something in the puppet, stretched out her hand to open the zipper on the back of the puppet, and took out a small wooden block from the cotton.
A name and a string of telephones are clearly engraved on the wooden block.
“Kalr?” Alyssa said as she watched the name on it.
As soon as Grace heard her voice, she tilted her head and said, “You are calling father.”
Alyssa took a small wooden block and asked Grace: “This, is your father’s number stuffed it in?”
“Well, dad’s call.” Grace nodded happily.
Alyssa was shocked for a moment.
She remembered the glimpse of the day she was discharged from the hospital.
It’s hard to imagine such a man with aggressive momentum, who would do such a caring little thing, and would engrave the words “Kalr” on it.
It can be seen from this that Karl still loves his daughter very much.
She thought Karl was a very cold person.
Alyssa glanced outside the restaurant.
After such a meeting, no one came to find Grace.
Alyssa had to press the phone number of “Kalr” under Grace’s expectant gaze.
After she pressed the phone number, she didn’t dial out immediately.
don’t know why, she has an inexplicable feeling of palpitations.
Like… nervous?
Grace was already full at the moment. Seeing Alyssa holding her mobile phone, she came over curiously and asked, “Have you called?”
“Call now.” Alyssa reached out and touched Grace’s head, and dialed out.
Alyssa turned on the speakerphone at the same time the call was made.
Hearing the beep of the phone call, Alyssa’s heart jumped fiercely.
This inexplicable feeling also appeared when she first saw Karl on the day she was discharged from the hospital.
Grace heard the “beep” and thought that the phone was connected, so he called out, “Dad?”
Alyssa laughed: “Your father hasn’t answered the phone yet, wait a minute.”
“Oh.” Grace replied and stared at the phone screen blankly. The look of expectation made Alyssa’s heart melt.
After the phone rang four times, there was a man’s deep and pleasant voice: “Who?”
His voice was slightly deep, with a coldness.
Grace heard Karl’s voice and shouted excitedly, “Dad!”
“Grace?” Unlike just now, this “Grace” was obviously mixed with emotions.
“It’s Grace, where are you, dad…” Grace couldn’t stop chattering as soon as she started talking.
Karl on the other end of the phone listened quietly for a while, and made sure that Grace’s voice sounded normal, then said in a deep voice, “Take the phone to the sister who called me.”
Alyssa was a little surprised. How could Karl know that it was an older sister who helped his daughter call?