This is their shared home, but most of the time it was her who took care of it, and she managed everything in an orderly manner.
There were housekeepers and servants in the villa, but she still personally took care of the flowers and plants, and installed a lamp on the rooftop terrace.
She said that it was specifically installed for him.
He would always see a light on for him at home when he got off work in the evening.
Stanley pushed the door open and found that the atmosphere at home remained warm and peaceful, just like before.
He looked at the flower bed and involuntarily imagined Karissa cutting a few branches of dewy roses and placing them in a vase in the living room.
The years were truly indescribably peaceful.
Stanley walked quietly through the hallway, wanting to surprise Karissa, but he couldn’t find her anywhere on the first floor. He furrowed his brow and went to ask the servant who was working diligently, “Where is Mrs.?”
The servants immediately stopped their work and looked at each other in surprise for a while.
Stanley grew impatient and said, “Where did Karissa go?”
“We didn’t know either. Madam seemed to have left in the afternoon, saying she was going to the mountaintop to watch the stars.”
Stanley instantly became angry: “What time is it already? You all don’t even know if she has come back home?!”
The other party could no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb, so they had to grit their teeth and say, “Madam said that we don’t have to wait for her anymore, we can rest after finishing the work ourselves…”
The others nodded in unison, seemingly genuinely unaware of Karissa’s whereabouts.
Stanley immediately became dissatisfied with the household servants and wished he could immediately dismiss a group of them who were not working diligently.
But he was determined to see Karissa, to have a chat with her about how to celebrate tomorrow’s anniversary, so he quickly went upstairs and headed straight to the bedroom.
“Karissa!” he exclaimed, pushing open the door and finding nothing but an empty room.
There was no one in the one–and–a–half room. A gust of wind blew through the hallway, and only the curtain by the French window swayed in the wind. As it brushed against the edge of the glass, it made a rustling sound.
Stanley’s heart tightened, just at the moment when he was most puzzled and confused, he suddenly caught sight of something extra on the bedside table.
A delicate box.
Wasn’t this the five–year anniversary gift that Karissa prepared for him?
Stanley walked over with a confused mind, only to discover that there was an envelope pressed under the box.
After he read the signature above, his heart suddenly trembled, and then a sense of foreboding occupied his entire chest.
This is what Karissa left for him.
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They were a married couple, having each other’s phone numbers and WhatsApp. If there was something they needed to inform each other about, there were faster methods available. What kind of matter would be so cautious to use such an old–fashioned way?
It was probably a surprise from Karissa, yes, it must have been like that…
With this thought in mind, Stanley picked up the envelope with trembling hands, which had started shaking at some point unknown to him. Inside, there was only a thin sheet of paper, and the contents could be easily seen once unfolded.
Karissa’s handwriting was as elegant and neat as always, clearly written in a calm and composed state of mind: “Stanley, I don’t know when you will receive this letter.
It doesn’t really matter if I can’t see it.
Because I had already left your world.
I knew about you and Monique, and I also said that if you betrayed me, I would disappear forever.
Soon, you will know that I keep my word.
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Karissa found out about his affair with Monique.
How could she have known?!
Monique had always promised to keep it a secret, even though he had been hiding it so well.
Which link exactly went wrong?!
At this moment, Stanley’s phone rang.
“Hello, is this Stanley? We are the police. Someone found your wife’s blood–stained clothes in the valley. We suspect that your wife may have fallen to her death from the top of the mountain. Could you please come to the police station to identify the deceased’s belongings?”
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