CEO's Reborn Wife-Chapter 27 - 35: Brother, You Go Back Once
Jane Sampson was able to enter the learning class thanks to Rock Bell pulling strings, so everyone in the class knew about Jane Sampson’s good relationship with the company’s gold-medal agent Rock Bell—especially since Rock Bell had personally visited the class to see Jane Sampson two days before the course began.
Because of this connection, everyone was quite friendly with Jane Sampson; no matter how much envy they harbored in their hearts for her easily gaining entrance through backdoor channels to a class that required rigorous selection, at least on the surface, they were all nice to her, addressing her affectionately as "little sister."
For Jane, the two months had been exhausting yet joyful, and time seemed to fly so fast that she hardly had time to do anything else.
At the Solar Planet Guardian Team base hidden in the suburbs of Capital Province, Peter Gingery was scrolling through Moments on his mobile phone and then slipped it into his pocket, muttering to himself the whole while.
James Black, who had just sat down beside Peter Gingery with his meal, heard Peter mentioning the name Jane Sampson, he glanced at Peter and casually asked, "What’s up with her?"
Peter Gingery, Jane Sampson, and Nina Rice had grown up playing together; James had always known that Peter and Jane had a very good relationship.
"That little lass seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth recently." Peter turned his head to see James and continued, "Brother, have you been in touch with her lately? I’ve noticed she hasn’t updated her Moments for almost two months now, which is really abnormal. I scrolled through her Moments, and her last post was from the day before we got back from training."
"Moments? WhatsAPP?" James didn’t use WhatsAPP, so the unfamiliar term Moments took him a few seconds to recall what it was.
"Yes." Peter mumbled to himself, thinking that nowadays even his grandpa had a WhatsAPP account; it was nearly impossible to find a second person whose mobile phone was used solely for making calls, like his cousin.
James did have a WhatsAPP account, but he rarely used it; he probably wouldn’t even be able to remember his account number himself by now.
"Jane used to post several moments a day, every day of the year without fail. Whether she was eating something and wanted to take a picture to post it, or seeing a funny joke she wanted to share, even a little mushroom sprouting in the flower pot on the balcony would get a post. She was so keen to be active on Moments that when she didn’t update for so long, I first thought I had been blocked by her once again."
Being blocked was a commonplace occurrence between Peter and Jane, but it was usually just for a joke; they would block each other and then add each other back after half a day.
For over a month, Peter had been wondering why Jane suddenly changed and became quiet. But this silence, lasting almost two months, made Peter think something was wrong.
Why would someone suddenly act out of character for no reason? There must have been something that happened.
"I called her early this morning, rang her several times but didn’t hear her pick up. Brother, don’t you find this odd?" Peter thought for a moment and then suggested, "Bro, why don’t you give her a call? Or maybe go back home this weekend?"
Peter asked tentatively, worried on one hand that James might cut him off and concerned on the other hand that if James did go back, Jane would find out it was he who had nudged James to go and that she might beat him up later.
Peter could tell how annoyed Jane was about James coming home just by looking at Jane’s Moments. Whenever James was coming home the next day, there would surely be a new moments post from Jane.
Oh my god!!!!!!!! Crying.
One sigh, a long string of exclamation marks, and a crying emoji.
This had been an unchanging pattern over the years, a special sentiment that Jane held exclusively towards James.
"She didn’t pick up the phone?" James took note of this detail that Peter had mentioned.
