Jasmine Yale hesitated, she didn't really understand what Sylvan Cheney meant by these two words.
"What?" Jasmine Yale blurted out.
What did he want to meet her for?
"Are you free?" Sylvan Cheney confirmed again.
Jasmine Yale responded ambiguously, "I should be free."
"Okay."
Jasmine Yale was puzzled.
Christmas time abroad was the most festive, he should be spending it overseas instead.
But Christmas was still some days away, they'd deal with that when the day came.
By that day, when he was standing in front of her, she might not even remember who he was anymore.
He didn't hang up, Jasmine Yale just held the phone silently.
"Why aren't you speaking? Darling, wait for me to return."
"Where are you?" Jasmine Yale asked.
"Miss me?"
"..."
"I'm in the US, attending the listing of a branch company."
Jasmine Yale noticed that the background was quite noisy on his end. A business listing event was a global spectacle.
She then looked at her small rental house...