Chapter 465

Odell was in the other room and had no idea that his children were plotting to locate their mother. He stood in front of the balcony with the windows opened. The night breeze blew against his towering figure. He was leaning against the wall with a cigarette in his mouth while toying with a wooden tortoise in his hand. The wooden tortoise’s edges had been filed down by the repeated caresses, but the words carved on its stomach was still visible. As he stared at the little tortoise with a deep gaze, his mind uncontrollably played the scenes of that woman. Her arrogance, the injustice to her, and the blank expression that she wore…everything was being replayed in his mind. From the moment he confirmed his feelings for her to the moment she jumped into the lake, every expression on her face flashed in his mind. He still failed to understand why would the woman, being the shameless person who cared a lot about the kids, would have jumped into the lake. If he could start over, he