Chapter 49

"Alice. How did you get to work earlier? When I went to pick you up at home, Tina said you had already left for work?"

Alice, who was preparing for a cooking competition at the time, immediately turned around. She gave Rumi a puzzled and bewildered look in response to his question.

Alice hadn’t forgotten. It was impossible to forget that earlier that morning, while she was waiting for Rumi, Ashton had clearly said that his sister couldn’t pick her up as usual because she had to take Umi Hana somewhere.

That’s why, with Ashton’s persuasion, Alice agreed to ride with him to the office. Even though, in the end, she had to be dropped off wherever Ashton pleased, not at the destination.

"You came to my house? To pick me up? Didn’t you have to take Mom somewhere this morning?" whispered Alice, looking around nervously, afraid someone might overhear their secret conversation.

"Take Mom? Who said that?"

Now Rumi was the one looking confused. He seriously didn’t understand what Alice was talki