Since Brian said this, Jose could only nod, "... Oh, all right.” Then he called a maid to accompany Mandy out, and he sat down on the sofa again.
Alessa glanced gratefully at Brian.
Several minutes after Mandy's departure, Alessa found an excuse for going out too.
...
Mandy, accompanied by the maid, strolled slowly through the garden.
Suddenly, in the front of the path, Alessa appeared and she stared straight at her.
Mandy paused. She did not expect that her cousin would take the initiative to find her, and she had never seen her cousin look at her in such a cool, regardless manner.
Alessa used to be gentle and timid.
If the predatory society was a big forest, Alessa was a deer standing aloof from worldly strife.
She didn’t have such cold and fine eyes even when Jose broke up with
