Drama Novel
Chapter 338
Chapter 338
The man looked around the small motel thoughtfully as if he was thinking about something. Sally handed him a cup of coffee and told him, “Sir, here you go, Please wait a moment; I’ll be down shortly. May | have your surname, please?”
“Davis.”
“Okay, Mr. Davis.”
Sally then went upstairs to clean up that room. The man took a sip of his coffee and took his camera out of his bag. He sat in the lobby before pointing the camera to the first floor. Then he zoomed in on and noticed a sign in a room on the second floor that said, “Boss’s room, knock if you need anything.” The man then smiled.
At the same time, Jennie was sitting by her room’s window and reading a book under the weak light that illuminated her face. She had her long, shining blonde hair down over her shoulders and was wrapped ina brown blanket.
Ryan had already been standing in the doorway for ten minutes. He was carrying a tray and said, “Mom, you can be mad at me as long as you want. But you’ve got to eat something.”
Jennie nodded, still engrossed in her book. “Leave it there,” she said.
Ryan said anxiously, “You haven’t eaten much since you returned from Birmingham. Even Sally can tell you’re in a bad mood! What are you expecting me to do about it?”
“Did you think of me when you got close to the Wrights behind my 338 Time Flies Away back?” Jennie asked, frowning.
Ryan became frozen, unsure of what to say. Jennie sized him up and realized he was strikingly similar to Wayne. She started to feel bad about it, believing she should never have allowed him to travel to
Birmingham in the first place.
When Ryan discovered Wayne and the Wrights in Birmingham, he never tried to hide it from his mother. He’d even called Jennie several times to see if she wanted to meet with Wayne. At the moment, she assumed he was joking.
Jennie thought it was lucky that only Wayne knew the truth. Things would have gotten complicated if Peter had known about it. She sighed after awhile, and said, “Leave it there, I’ll eat it later.”
Ryan fixed his gaze on his mother. She appeared gentle and delicate, yet she was a tough woman. As he placed the tray on the coffee table next to him, he said, “You have to eat. If the meal gets cold, I’ll reheat it for you.”
Jennie nodded and then looked away.
Ryan was depressed, so he opened the door and walked out. However, as soon as he opened the door, he heard the shutter, and a flash shone on his face. He quickly covered his face and asked angrily, “Hey! What are you doing?” All rights © NôvelDrama.Org.
Then he noticed a man seated in the lobby on the ground floor. Although he knew the man could be a guest, he couldn’t remain polite anymore. He asked angrily, “Who are you? Why are you taking pictures here?”
The man was a tall 50-year-old man. He was wearing a black jumper and had a camera in his hand. He tilted his head, looked at Ryan suspiciously, and asked, “Can’t | take pictures here? No one has ever told 338 Time Flies Away me that, sorry. I’ll delete the pictures right away.”
Just then, Sally happened to come out of the guest room. When she spotted Ryan, she looked at the door behind him and asked, “Your mother still hasn’t eaten anything, has she?”
“No.”
Hearing that, Sally didn’t say anything else. When she noticed the man on the ground floor staring at them, she said, “By the way, Ryan, this is Mr. Davis. He’s our new guest. Mr. Davis, this is our young boss.”
Davis nodded, and then looked at Ryan suspiciously and asked, “Why do you call him that?”
“Because the owner of the hotel is his mother. So, he’s the young boss.”
Ryan didn’t stop her. He nodded and appeared to be in a bad mood. As he proceeded to his room, he added, “Sally, go entertain the guests. I’m returning to my room. Bye.”
The men gazed at his back till he shut the door behind him.
Sally then said, “Sir, I need you to check in here. Would you mind showing me your ID?”
Davis handed Sally his identification card. After taking the ID, She silently typed his name into the computer before saying, “Mr. William Davis, your room is number 205. If you need anything, you can call the front desk. There’s always someone here 24/7.”
Davis then took his room key and went upstairs.
The guests gradually returned at almost midnight when the festivities ended. They gathered in the hall to talk for a while, and then all went back to their rooms.
Meanwhile, Jennie played Billie Holiday’s music on the gramophone 338 Time Flies Away in her room, and the tune was gentle but sorrowful. Listening to the music,
Jennie got a photo album from the safe she hadn’t seen ina long time. She had kept i
previously destroyed all of the stuff related to the Williams. She’d done it
n the safe for the past 20 years. Furthermore, she had
to say goodbye to the past and to make a clean break with the Wrights. And she had never shown Ryan that album
The first page of the album was a black and white photograph. In the photo, a young man was standing beside a young boy, and a woman was standing beside them, holding a baby in her arms. The woman was cheerfully smiling, but the man was expressionless.
That year, James, Peter’s only child, had just turned one year old, and Jennie had just been born. Jennie was abandoned at the door to a church shortly after she was born. At the time, it was winter. If Mrs. Wright had not gone to church and found her, she would have probably frozen to death.
The Wrights saved her life and raised her since then. They treated her like one of the Wrights, giving her the finest of everything, They even gave her James, a man who loved her deeply.
Recalling the past, Jennie couldn’t stop crying. She turned the page and saw another picture of a teenage boy and a girl. They were both only eighteen years old and smiling happily for the camera. At the bottom of the photo was a line written in blue pen, “At Jen’s eighteenth birthday party.”
She felt like she was eighteen again when she saw that name. She remembered a lot of things from the past. At that precise time, she heard a knock on the door.