Joshua furrowed his brows and clutched the steering wheel tightly in his hands. “I guess we have to find
Charlotte as soon as we can.”
He sighed and added, “My thought is that Theo doesn’t really want to marry Roanne because he loves
her, but because…”
He narrowed his eyes. “Because he feels guilty for her death. He thinks that he played an undeniable
role in Roanne’s death, and thus he’s doing all he can to make it up to her so that he’ll be less burdened
by his grief.
“This was why he broke up with Rachel, and I’m guessing this is the same reason he plans to marry
Roanne.”
Luna bit her lip and lifted her head to stare at Joshua, still gripping her phone tightly. “Does this mean
that if we find Charlotte as soon as we can and force her to admit her mistake and take responsibility for
Roanne’s murder… Theo’s guilt may be lessened?”
Joshua nodded and replied in a low voice, “That seems to be the way to go, logically speaking.” Luna
closed her eyes and sighed. She knew what Joshua was trying to say. Logically speaking, they would be
able to help theo as long as they could find Charlotte.
However, what Joshua was implying was that this was just a guess, and if Theo were to stand by his
decision even after Charlotte took responsibility for her actions, they would have no other way of helping
him. As soon as she thought of this, Luna sighed and said, “I guess we’ll have to try.” Even if things had
not turned out the way they wanted, they had at least tried.
Joshua nodded.
Then, he glanced at Luna through the rearview mirror and said, “Actually, I had wanted to ask Dr. Liddell
something. Do you remember the dream your mother mentioned she had during her stay in Lincoln City?
“In her dreams, Sirius had come to her and told her the truth about my Aunt Lucy’s death. On top of that,
he had admitted that the reason he hadn’t told her the truth about this earlier was that he did not know if
she could take it, and now that she was in a coma, he chose to spill everything because he didn’t think
she’d ever wake up…” Joshua paused. “Don’t you think this doesn’t sound like a dream?” Luna fell silent
upon hearing this. She wrung her hands and tried to recall every word that Rosalyn had said.
It…seemed that Joshua was right.
She lifted her head to stare at Joshua. “Do you think that Sirius could still be alive?”
Joshua narrowed his eyes. “I’m not too sure, but I can’t help feeling that your mother’s dream
wasn’t a dream at all. “After all, she had never thought of Sirius as a bad person before, and she had
never suspected that he had been involved in my Aunt Lucy’s death, so surely she would never have
been able to dream something like this.” Luna nodded in agreement. Truth be told, she had already felt
that something was not right when she first heard of Rosalyn’s account of this dream.
She had wanted to inquire more detail about this but did not have the chance to do so.
As soon as she thought of this, Luna lifted her head to glance at Joshua. “So were you planning to ask
Dr. Liddell for the records of the people who had visited my mother while she was in her coma?”
Joshua murmured in affirmation. “That’s what I was planning to do.”
If Rosalyn’s dream had not been a dream at all…this meant that someone must have said all those
things to her in real life while she was in her coma, making her think she had dreamt it.
Luna could not help recalling Quentin. She remembered that before returning to Merchant City, Quentin
had first gone to Dr. Liddell’s research facility in Lincoln City to visit Rosalyn under the pretense of being
her brother.
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