Evelyn took Aurelia outside the room while Vincent stayed inside beside Austin, trying to understand what exactly had happened.
"Explain yourself. You and him! How? When? Why? I mean—yes, why?!"
"Calm down, Aurelia. It started when we were in Italy."
"When we were in Italy?"
"Yes. At the café, when Sir told us that we were free for the rest of the day, I approached Evelyn and asked if she was ready to roam with me. She agreed, and when we went to a beautiful spot…"
"Duomo Rooftop," Evelyn interrupted with a smile. "He proposed to me with a beautiful poem he wrote."
Aurelia's eyes widened.
"He actually wrote a poem?"
"Yes," Evelyn said, almost proudly. "And then he said, 'At last, Evelyn, before you came, I didn't know I had so much potential in gossip. I used to hate talking and laughing, but seeing you doing that made me feel that you will be my forever gossip partner. So may I seize this opportunity to make our sessions from office to lifetime?'"
Aurelia stared at her.
Vincent stared at Austin
"That is actually adorable."
"After he said that, I hugged him and said, 'Took you long enough to realise Carl's words.'"
"Wait," Aurelia said. "Carl knew?"
"Not exactly at first," Austin replied. "After that, we started dating secretly. There were times when we got together for work, like visiting the doctor for the case. Sometimes we happened to finish earlier than expected, and we would go on a date. We held hands, talked, and just cherished the moment."
"You guys are really something, you know? We didn't know anything. You were both so good at hiding!"
Vincent scoffed when Aurelia and Evelyn finally came back inside.
Austin looked at him and added, "Carl knew about us earlier. He caught us in the storage room."
Vincent and Aurelia looked at each other in great surprise.
Then, almost at the same time, they clapped.
"Well done," Aurelia said.
"I am not even shocked at this point," Vincent added.
They both went outside, leaving the lovebirds whispering inside.
You readers are probably thinking that they will both talk about their situation.
At least Vincent will have some words in his heart that are eager to come outside.
No.
Rather, Aurelia started talking about the case as soon as they stepped outside the hospital.
"Something isn't right."
"Yeah. I have noticed it too."
Aurelia looked at him.
"How come Carl caught them before we did?"
Vincent raised an eyebrow.
"Vincent, I am not talking about that something. It is different. Case-related."
"Oh."
"When we went to Italy, no lawyer was there to communicate with us. There were no meetings to settle this matter privately. Most precisely, Marco is very suspicious to me. Whatever is happening, including this, everything feels like it is moving too fast."
Vincent listened carefully.
"Attack on an employee in less than a week. Also, don't you feel like the evidence is just being thrown at us?"
"So you think there isn't just one culprit, but a group of them?"
"Exactly! So smart to understand my spiral words."
Vincent smiled.
"If not me? Then who, my lady?"
The blush on Aurelia's face wasn't too dominant, but her smile and round cheeks surely did the work well.
It was almost 7 p.m. when Vincent dropped Aurelia off at her home.
The moment she entered, the hospital, the case, Evelyn and Austin—all of it temporarily disappeared from her mind.
For the moment, there was another problem waiting for her.
Her family.