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Just as she was thinking of how to bluff her way out of it, she
frowned.
“Wait a minute, shouldn’t I be the one asking you that?
Why were you in Professor Shaw’s room last night?”
Rebecca couldn’t keep a straight face.
She looked away, avoiding Madeleine’s gaze.
“Last night… um… I just went over to talk to him for a bit.”
“For the whole night?
!”
“Oh, not exactly.”
Madeleine followed Rebecca’s gaze, squirming around, trying to read something in her eyes.
She narrowed her eyes, “Rebecca, don’t forget we have a best friends forever pact. No secrets allowed, okay?”
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Being stared at like that by Madeleine made Rebecca a little
uncomfortable.
She threw up her hands in resignation and went to sit on the
sofa.
“It’s what you think it is. What do you want to know, the specific
details?”
“Oh, am I allowed to know that?”
“What are you thinking!”
Rebecca shot her a glare.
You’re a mother already, and still so improper.
After saying that, her cheeks flushed again, and she mumbled,
“We didn’t go that far.”
“What?”
She spoke so softly that Madeleine thought she’d misheard.
She walked over and sat next to Rebecca, putting on an
expression of concern for her bestie’s happiness.
“No way. Even though we always called him an old fossil,
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Professor Shaw isn’t that old, is he? How could he be… uh…”
How could he not be able to perform?
Madeleine was too embarrassed to say the rest.
But Rebecca understood instantly, staring at Madeleine with
wide, speechless eyes.
She really wanted to crack open her head and see what kind of
stuff was inside.
“What nonsense are you thinking? It’s not a physical problem,
it’s just… ahem, we didn’t have that.”
That?
Which that.
Madeleine blinked a couple of times, and it took her a good
moment to realize.
Oh, the no–baby bag.
Madeleine slapped her thigh in urgency, “You should’ve said so
earlier! I have some.”
Rebecca: …
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“So, are you two together now?”
“Uh, well, how should I put this.”
Rebecca considered for a moment, then told Madeleine about
her conversation with Adrian last night.
Madeleine was dumbfounded after hearing it.
“Rebecca, I’ve seen a lot of female players, but you’re the first
one I’ve seen who’s so blatantly one.”
“A player?”
Rebecca didn’t think so.
“A one–month trial period is good for me and for him. How is that being a player?”
Madeleine thought for a moment, then said thoughtfully, “Feelings and business are different. You can’t measure them with simple pros and cons.”
Rebecca didn’t reply, listening intently.
“This one–month trial period you proposed, it seems fair, but it’s really just an excuse to delay your true feelings. The fact that someone like Professor Shaw would agree to that is enough to
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show how he feels about you.”
Rebecca was taken aback.
Madeleine’s words were a perspective she had never
considered.
“I know what you’re afraid of. You’re afraid of investing too
much and getting nothing back, afraid you two are just a whim,
afraid this relationship won’t go anywhere. But Rebecca, love is
always a risk.”
Madeleine said with a smile, “You can calculate profit and loss
in business, but how do you calculate it with feelings?”
Rebecca wanted to argue, but she found that everything
Madeleine said made sense.
She was just trying to find a safe approach, but it seemed she
had only made things more complicated.
“Rebecca, you can’t handle feelings the same way you handle
everything else. Sometimes, you have to ask your heart.”
After a long moment, Rebecca nodded.
“Okay.”
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She understood what Madeleine was saying.
It was just that over the past twenty–some years, she had developed her own way of doing things.
It was hard to change just like that.
“It’s okay. Take your time.”
Madeleine beamed, dispelling the gloom that had settled over Rebecca, and quickly started to gossip with her about the Gossip between Bradley and Charlotte.
The chaos from last night didn’t last.
After an awkward breakfast at a large table, Charlotte said she and Simon had taken on a last–minute case and needed to get
back to handle it.
Madeleine personally saw them out.
Bradley didn’t come, sitting gloomily in the house by himself, lost in thought.
Madeleine grew even more curious, and couldn’t help but probe a little while seeing Charlotte off.
“Charlotte, Roderick mentioned you helped him with a case
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before. Thank you so much. I’m sorry we couldn’t be better
hosts this time. Let’s get together again when we have time.”
“Of course.”
Charlotte smiled and nodded.
Although she and Madeleine didn’t know each other well, after
spending time together yesterday, she could tell Madeleine was
a very sweet girl.
The bond between girls is pure and wonderful, and Charlotte
felt happy being with them.
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