Chapter 114 He Called Her Eileen

Joseph seemed not to hear Elaine's words. Standing very close, he lowered his eyes and studied her carefully, as if trying to see something he had never fully understood. There was a deep confusion in his eyes. After a moment, he repeated, "Are you Elaine?" Lately, he had been feeling unsettled. Elaine was someone he barely knew, and even after ten years, her face didn't resemble Eileen's from a decade ago much at all. They were completely different people, yet somehow he felt she could show the same expression Eileen once had. Even the mole at the corner of her eye seemed to be in exactly the same place. Even Sheryl, who claimed to be Eileen, had a slightly different position for her mole. Suddenly, he remembered the sight of Elaine standing by the grill in the backyard. For some reason, it brought back the image of a little girl from over ten years ago, tiptoeing around the orphanage kitchen late at night, secretly making him a grilled cheese sandwich. It had been so long that