“What curse are you going to put on me?”
“I haven’t decided yet.”
“Is that it, or do you love me too much to put a curse on me?”
Jim and Bonnie were so intimate in Jim’s dream that it seemed so surreal.
Jim awoke from his dream and quickly took a sip from his tea to settle his nerves.
Everything that happened in his dream still made him a little worried just thinking back on it.
Had he and Bonnie been as close as they had in the dream?
If that was true, why was he unable to recall these memories of them together, and why did he have no
recollection of her at all?
“Mr. Landry, it’s time to wake up and eat breakfast,” a woman’s voice rang out from outside the door.
Jim recognized that voice. It was Roanne, Charlotte’s younger sister.
He furrowed his brows and murmured a reply, then got off the bed and decided to freshen himself up in
hopes that it would calm him.
In the dining room, Roanne had already prepared an entire table full of food.
Jim sat at the table, and as he chewed on his food, he said impassively, “I’ve already sent Charlotte to
live at our future house in the city center. You can go over with her if you’d like.”
To his surprise, Roanne shook her head. “No, I don’t want to live with her.”
With that, she immediately stood up as though she had made up her mind and got on both knees in front
of him.
She lifted her head to stare at Jim with tear-rimmed eyes. “Master Landry, I’ve been wanting to tell you
this for a long time now, but I never got the chance.
“Now that Charlotte is unable to follow and keep watch over me anymore, I have to tell you the truth!”
Jim furrowed his brows and glanced coldly at Roanne with a hint of displeasure on his face.” What do
you mean by this, Roanne? You say that Charlotte has been watching you?”
How could that be? Were Charlotte and Roanne not as close as real sisters?
When he had met them at the orphanage, Charlotte, who was Number-9 at that time, would always
share her food with Roanne, Number-12. At that time, when Jim returned to take Charlotte away from the
orphanage, she had requested to bring Roanne with her as well.
Not only that, but she was the one who had chosen Roanne’s name for her.
Why was Roanne trying to talk bad about Charlotte as soon as she left LBIF”\C[}ry Mansion? It was bad
enough that she did not appreciate Charlotte’s help, but she was even trying to frame her for other
things.
“Yes.” Even when faced with Jim’s look of repulse, Roanne continued, “Master Landry,”
She lifted her head to stare at him. “Actually, you made a huge mistake.
“Charlotte isn’t the Number-9 you fell in love with at all.”
Jim furrowed his brows when he heard this. “What are you talking about?”
“I’m saying that Charlotte isn’t Number-9, and I’m not Number-12 either.
“The truth is that Charlotte was Number-12, and I was Number-23 at the orphanage.
“The girl you promised to marry was Number-9, but she was adopted soon after you left, and Charlotte
took her place instead. All this while, you’ve been searching for the wrong person…”
Clang!
As soon as she finished her sentence, the sound of broken china echoed from the direction of the door.
Bonnie stood motionless at the door, and she could hear a faint ringing in her ears.
She stared at Roanne, who was still kneeling before Jim, and said in a trembling voice, “Can… Can you
repeat that?”
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