Sweet like Wine: Love Your Dimples Even More-Chapter 78 - 49: I Don’t Think I Can Handle This Alone
The community newspaper, unlike larger publications, doesn’t have vast amounts of international and domestic news from various agencies; from beginning to end, the content is closely related to the residents of this community.
The news of the Brunschwig Distillery reopening is considered a significant piece of news locally.
Reopening a distillery requires substantial funds; where will this money come from?
This was the newspaper’s initial question.
Three days further in, Sean Lowell saw the news of the distillery’s reopening failure.
Alongside this news was an even bigger story with a news photo.
In the picture was a dead Asian woman and a little girl with bloodied, mangled hands.
For a community newspaper, a murder case is explosive news.
For several days in a row, sensitive news about the Brunschwig Distillery dominated the headlines.
To protect privacy, the newspaper did not specify the victim’s name clearly or publish high-resolution crime scene photos.
The faces of the deceased and the little girl were also pixelated.
Sean Lowell immediately recognized Summer Lowell’s iconic hairstyles; like those Chun-Li cosplayers at conventions, always with twin hair buns.
If it were just the appearance of the iconic hair buns, Sean Lowell might not have been able to be 100% certain of who the girl in the news was.
But on those bloodied, mangled little hands, there was a bracelet made of heart-shaped buttons.
It was identical to the button necklace hanging around Sean Lowell’s neck.
There were two buttons on Summer Lowell’s most beloved doll’s clothes.
Sean Lowell had one, and Summer Lowell had the other.
Summer Fairmont currently no longer wears a bracelet, and she doesn’t even remember ever owning one.
No matter if Summer Fairmont remembers or not, with this kind of photographic evidence in the news, if Sean Lowell still couldn’t confirm that Summer Fairmont was Summer Lowell, it would betray his exceptional memory.
Yet for the first time, Sean Lowell...
Felt a reluctance to confirm.
Sean Lowell stared at the news photo, unmoving, sitting in the community newspaper’s archive for five hours.
This turned out to be the forgotten truth of Summer Fairmont, the truth he’s been searching for all along.
Sean Lowell didn’t know what he could do.
If he took all the archived newspapers and burned them, would no one remember this anymore?
Sean Lowell was devastated. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
His usual calm and composed demeanor completely vanished from his face.
He probably hadn’t cried in 19 years?
He came looking for newspapers, seeking clues about the Brunschwig Distillery reopening, to find news about that mysterious Asian woman and little girl, gather photos, gather evidence, to persuade Summer Fairmont that she was Summer Lowell.
That way, a second "accident scene" could be avoided.
But how could Sean Lowell place these "clues" in front of Summer Fairmont?
Ten accident scenes couldn’t be as brutal as the truth.
Excitedly going through old newspapers, only to read about his mother’s mysterious death, and his sister’s mangled body.
Yet he had even complained about his upbringing, attributing it to the oppressive education from his father, and questioned if he had Stockholm Syndrome. How dare he?
Sean Lowell didn’t know how to face the news about his mother and sister, which had originally filled him with anticipation.
He just sat there, like a statue.
Unmoving, wordless.
His mind was even a complete blank.
After five hours, suddenly standing up after sitting so long, Sean Lowell’s vision went black, nearly causing him to fall headlong.
When his vision cleared, Sean Lowell found the entire world glaringly bright.
How did Summer grow up?
What has Summer gone through?
How is he supposed to tell Summer:
"Look, this dead person is your mom."
"Look, this bracelet proves you’re my sister."
Like a zombie, Sean Lowell returned to the Lochindaal Hotel, unable to think, even unable to breathe.
Before leaving, Gordon Sterling had prepared a phone for Sean Lowell, and Sean used it to send his first message since dropping out of college: [It feels like I can’t handle this alone.]
Nationally-certified Gordon Sterling: [Wait for me, just stay put! I’m booking a flight immediately. Don’t go anywhere, don’t drink anything, wait for me, and I’ll take care of everything for you.]
Sean Lowell: [Okay.]
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Bonus: Today’s updated Chapter has a special Chapter at the end, considered a small teaser about the male lead in the next book.
