Chapter 502 Secret Base
Chapter 502 Secret Base
"Sorry, I don't know." The receptionist shook her head. "Miss Reed, you may consider calling him."
Amber smiled. "Alright, thank you."
She turned around and walked out.
After returning to the car, Amber took out her phone and called Cole.
But a cold mechanical voice blared out, "The person you have reached is unavailable. Please try again
later…"
Amber looked at her phone with a frown.
It was strange.
Cole rarely turned off his phone.
What happened to him?
She bit her lower lip and tapped on the screen to make another call. This time, she was calling Mrs.
Lyon.
Mrs. Lyon soon answered the call. Her gentle voice sounded, "Hey, sweetheart, why are you calling
me?"
Amber replied with a smile, "I miss you. And, I also want to ask you something."
"What's the matter?" Mrs. Lyon sat on the sofa, sipping her coffee gracefully.
Amber leaned against the seat. "Mrs. Lyon, is Cole home?"
"Cole?" Mrs. Lyon shook her head. "He should be at the company now."
"He's not in the company." Amber rubbed her temples.
Mrs. Lyon put down her coffee. "What?"
"Yeah."
Mrs. Lyon pondered for a moment. "He might have a meeting or make a field trip. If you want to find
him, call him."
"I did. His phone is off." Amber held her forehead and said helplessly.
Mrs. Lyon shrugged her shoulders. "Then I'm afraid I can't help. Cole sometimes is stubborn. No one
can find him if he wants to hide away. By the way, are you guys in a fight?"
Amber replied blankly, "No, we didn't. He called me earlier and we were having a good chat, but then
his mood suddenly changed. I was confused.
“What did you talk about? Can you tell me? Maybe I can help." She suggested.
Amber nodded. Then, she roughly explained the conversation with Cole.
Mrs. Lyon suddenly fell silent.
Amber's heart sank. "Auntie, why aren't you speaking? Did I really do something wrong?"
“No," Mrs. Lyon smiled helplessly. "Well, it's his own problem."
“What?" Amber tilted her head confusedly. "Auntie, do you know the reason?"
“Pretty much. That kid knows he was going to miss the chance again." Mrs. Lyon sighed, “Actually, I
encouraged him to say it,
but he never listened on this. Now it's over. I think he kinda asks for it."
“What..." Amber felt a littke puzzled when she heard Mrs. Lyon's words. She guessed something, but
she wasn't sure.
Mrs. Lyon continued, "Alright, forget about that. He'll be back in a while. I have to hang up because I
had a date with my
friends to the beauty salon. I've got to go.”
“Okay, bye. Take care of yourself.
After the call ended, she threw her phone on the passenger seat and pinched her nose.
Forget about that?
How could she do that?
She and Cole had been friends for more than twenty years, and they had grown up together. Cole
suddenly disappeared, and
it might have something to do with her. Amber couldn't sleep tight if she couldn't figure it out. She felt
like she was betraying
their friendship of more than twenty years.
So, she had to find Cole no matter what.
Amber tapped her fingers lightly on her temples as she pondered.
After thinking for a while, her eyes suddenly widened and she sat up straight.
A place popped out in her mind.
Cole might go there.
That was the park they used to play in the childhood.
She remembered that when she was eight years old, her stepmother Beatrice Sitwell slapped her in the
face. Rushing out of
the house in tears, she ran into Cole who was coming to play with her.
Cole scolded Beatrice after he found out the truth, making Beatrice flustered and ran after them with a
broom. Cole took
Amber out of the villa and ran to a park.
It was an abandoned park, so Cole took it as his secret base. Amber could talk and laugh freely without
getting on Beatrice's aoe
The place had become Amber's secret base too.
They would meet at the secret base every time Cole called her out to play.
The secret base carried all the happy memories of her and Cole's childhood and youth.
But since when she had stopped going to their secret base?
It seemed to be six years ago.
She had never been there since she married Jared six years ago.
If Cole didn't hide this time, Amber might have forgotten the secret base.
Amber let out a guilty breath. Then, she geared in to drive.
About forty minutes later, the car stopped by an old abandoned building.
Amber got out of the car. She looked up at the rusty park signboard that had missed two words. She
wallowed in nostalgia for the past and a smile flashed across her face.
After six years, she finally returned to the place filled with childhood memories.
She retracted her gaze and walked into the park.
As she walked, she looked around the park to see if there were any changes.
Amber reached deep into the park soon and found Cole on an old swing.
Cole's back was facing her, and his head was drooped. He was holding the chains on both sides of the
swing, swaying his feet above the ground.
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At the sound of her footsteps, Cole stopped the swing on tiptoe.
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He thought that the person was a stranger breaking in out of curiosity.
He didn't expect to see Amber.
Cole immediately stood up from the swing and looked at her in surprise. "Baby, why are you here?"
“Surprised?” Amber asked.
Cole nodded. "Of course, you haven't been here for many years. I thought you'd forgotten about this
place. So, what brings you here?"
He asked.
Amber replied to him, "I couldn't find you, so I thought about the places where you might be. Then I
came to this place. I didn't expect you to be here.”
Cole was extremely excited. "So, are you looking for me?"
“Yeah,” Amber nodded. "You suddenly cut off the line. I was worried. I went to your company, but the
receptionist said you weren't there. I called you, but your phone was turned off. Then I called your mom
to ask if you were at home. One thing leads to another, I came to this place.