He drank the red wine in the glass in one gulp, put the glass back on the table. "I'm going to rest."
"Okay." Matteo also toasted, sat back on the seat, and looked at the phone with complicated eyes.
Ainsley went back to the room, packed up the presents from everyone, and went to wash up. It was already half past eleven in the evening when she sat by the bed.
Holding the bracelet that Manuel gave her in her hand, she was in a daze.
She thought, "Why didn't he come? What was it that kept him?"
Her birthday would pass in half an hour, and she had received many blessings, but not his.
Just as she was in a daze, the message prompt tone sounded. She picked up the phone and looked at it. It was a multimedia message with a paragraph of text and a photo inside.