Chapter 145 The Call Went Unanswered

• Angelina once told me that I’d encounter all kinds of women and experience various situations while at the bottom of the industry. I believed her, but I wasn’t wholly convinced, because I thought that women only needed some placation since their problem was nothing more than the usual trivial stuff such as relationship woes. From the look of things now, however, Eliana was obviously not a woman who could be handled by mere placation. She wasn’t giving me trouble, nor was she coercing me. Instead, she was even giving me freedom of choice.
• My veritable problem now, however, was her intent to commit suicide. I can’t sway her overnight with feelings to not commit suicide. I’m confident that I can make her fall for me, but I’m not certain I can do so overnight. But other than feelings, I truly couldn’t think of anything else that could tether a woman who’d made up her mind to die. Well, unless Joe Wilson comes back to her, but is that possible?
• Taking out a coin, I flipped it between my fingers. The more I flipped it, the greater its speed and the more agile my fingers until it ultimately left an afterimage. I was thinking and deliberating, so my mind was going even faster than my fingers at this moment, racing a million miles an hour. In the end, I came up with a solution that wasn’t quite a solution.