Upon hearing Miles Sterling’s question, Cynthia Ramsey raised an eyebrow slightly surprised and said to herself, "It seems you’ve already remembered her?"

Hearing that Gwen Grant knew the girl, Miles immediately asked, "Where is she? What’s her name?"

"I don’t know where she is. As for the name... when you’re drunk you always call out ’Vanessa’. I think that’s probably it."

"Vanessa..." Miles muttered the name, and a little boy’s voice immediately sounded in his mind: "How about we call you Vanessa? Do you like that name?"

A timid girl’s face appeared in his mind, a dirty face with a pair of clear and pure black eyes...

Vanessa...

Vanessa.

Miles stood up, staggered over, picked up the cane leaning against the wall, and pushed the door open to leave.

He could confirm that the girl who had been appearing all this time was not a hallucination caused by his confused memory.

But there really was a girl who was very, very important to him.

Yet, he still couldn’t recall more about Vanessa.

The moment he rushed out the door, he wanted to immediately find the girl.

But standing at the street corner, he hesitated, looking at the fork in the road, unsure of where to go to find her.

After calming down, he started to think again.

It’s been such a long time since the incident, yet the girl never came to find him. Was it because she couldn’t find him or didn’t want to see him?

The sky gradually brightened, and the streets slowly became busier with people and vehicles.

Rows of breakfast shops lined the street, bustling inside.

Miles felt a bit hungry, but he didn’t enter any shop, just leaned on his cane like a walking corpse, aimlessly moving forward.

"Boss, I’ll have one serving of steamed dumplings and one porridge to go."

A girl’s clear voice came from nearby, causing Miles to stop suddenly and look toward the source.

A black-haired girl with shoulder-length hair stood facing away from him in front of a nearby breakfast shop.

The shopkeeper quickly packed the girl’s order and took the change she had already prepared.

The girl took the breakfast and began walking in the direction of home, occasionally looking down at her phone as if chatting with someone.

Miles suppressed his inner excitement, as if unwilling to disturb her, but his feet involuntarily followed.

Gwen was having breakfast at home when she suddenly received a call from a man who urgently said, "Madam, it seems there’s trouble."

Gwen put down her morning paper, frowned, and said, "What’s happened? Didn’t I ask you to follow that girl? Did you lose her?"

"No... I was following the girl like you said, but I don’t know when Mr. Sterling came here too, and it seems he is also following that girl."

"What?! Did they meet?!"

"... I don’t think it counts as a meeting. The girl doesn’t know Mr. Sterling is there, he’s just silently following, I..."

Upon hearing this, Gwen immediately put down her milk cup, didn’t even bother to grab her coat from the table, asked for the address over the phone, grabbed the car keys from the entry cabinet, and rushed out.

Driving out, Gwen took out her phone and called Miles Sterling, the ringtone rang for a long time, neither being hung up nor answered.

Was the thing she dreaded the most still about to happen?