Chapter 1599
Chapter 1599 A Snowy Night (4)_1
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Flossie Wright touched her nose, "Is something up?"
"Can’t I call you if there’s nothing wrong?"
Becca Reyes asked irritably and immediately couldn’t be bothered to wait for Flossie Wright’s indifferent response.
After a pause, Becca Reyes got straight to the point, "So, did you have dumplings in the cafeteria? Did you get the one with the bullet casing wrapped inside?"
"No," Flossie Wright said blandly.
"Belinda Nichols got it."
Flossie Wright cut Becca Reyes off in time.
"..." There was a silence on the other end, and soon, Becca Reyes’s voice came through, sounding speechless, "Talking to you is really hard work."
To that assessment, Flossie Wright chose not to respond.
"It’s good that she got it, anyway, you have one too, right?" Becca Reyes said quite seriously, but after a pause, her voice suddenly grew louder, "You didn’t lose yours, did you?"
Flossie Wright replied leisurely.
The bullet casing from Team Leader Lin and Perry Reed’s talisman were kept together; she had never touched them, so naturally, she couldn’t have lost them.
"That’s good," Becca Reyes responded before swiftly changing the subject, "I’m at the cooking class right now, and a few people want to talk to you. Do you want to listen?"
Flossie Wright made an affirmative sound.
Quickly, she heard a clamor of mixed sounds from the other end of the phone.
It seemed they were discussing who should speak first.
After a while, someone finally got the phone and muddled with it for a moment before their voice came through—
"Flossie, Flossie, how are you doing in the Forces? Are you tired? If you can’t hold on, come back quickly, and we’ll make something tasty for you..."
"Stop it, stop it. What do you mean ’can’t hold on’? It’s the New Year, can’t you say something nice?"
Thus, before they could finish speaking, someone angrily interrupted and the phone was passed to someone else.
"Flossie, don’t listen to him, keep working hard over there. But remember to come back and see us when you have a day off."
The phone was snatched away again, "Flossie, remember to come back sooner. In a few more years, we’ll probably all be gone..."
"Go away, why say such things on a festive day?"
They were interrupted once more.
"Flossie, we’re staying up late tonight on New Year’s Eve, are you guys going to do the same over there?"
"I heard your training there is really tough. Maybe you should go to sleep early, rest up well."
"Remember to give it your all in training, you made it through the Frogman selection, so what are you afraid of with that Aaron Doom?"
Flossie Wright stood there quietly.
On the phone, a variety of voices came over, each and every word crystal clear to Flossie Wright.
𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
Time can make one forget many things. Having left the cooking class a year ago, Flossie Wright couldn’t possibly remember every little thing.
But as they chatted on the other end of the line, word by word, they spoke of their expectations for her future, reminisced about those trivial past events, and even mentioned the vegetables she had planted in that soil...
Unknowingly, even Flossie Wright herself hadn’t realized it, but a faint smile had formed on her lips.
It was subtle and faint, yet breathtakingly bright.
All this was witnessed by Glenn Hutchinson.
As for the dissatisfaction he had earlier, it had disappeared without a trace at the rise of Flossie Wright’s smiling lips.
All along, he had believed in Flossie Wright, yet at the same time, he did not.
He believed that Flossie Wright could protect many things, and that she could truly fulfill the identity of a real soldier.
— End of Chapter 1599 —