Chapter 39

After saying good night to Matthew, Lucy returned to her room and sat on her bed, wiping her hair.

The fatigue from running around all day gradually came over her. She yawned, starting to feel a little sleepy.

Her movements of drying her hair became slower and slower. In the end, the towel fell from her hands. Lucy plopped onto the bed and closed her eyes.

Not long after she fell asleep, her phone rang, waking her up.

Lucy frowned. She was annoyed that she was woken up. She groped around the bed and finally found a rectangular block. She did not even look at it and just answered the call with her sense of touch alone.

“Hello?”

She sounded sleepy.

“You damned woman, you haven’t come home for days. Did you run away?”

Lucy woke up and jumped off of her bed.

“Mom?”

The person on the other end of the phone did not care that Lucy was asleep. She immediately bombarded her with questions, “I’m still your mother, you know!

“How dare you run off with that stranger and say that on TV?