Although the two sisters didn’t actually understand each other’s situation, they didn’t question one another; both of them believed what the other said.
"Oh! Then try to come home early, don’t work too late." Alice Turner was always a busy person, and Lily Turner knew it well, so when her sister said she was busy with things, she didn’t doubt it at all.
Lily Turner being taken out of the house by Easton Holmes was something Alice Turner didn’t know about on the other end of the call. She nodded and responded, "Mm, then you get some rest early, and make sure you’re looking beautiful tomorrow."
"I need to get busy now, talk later."
Alice Turner hung up the phone before Lily Turner could say anything else, ending it so hastily that Lily didn’t even have the chance to say goodbye.
Lily slowly took the phone away from her ear and turned her head to look at Easton Holmes, who had been standing beside her the whole time, with a puzzled expression, "My sister didn’t sound like she’d been drinking. Why did Thomas say she had been?"
She knew her sister’s drinking capacity best, with three drinks being enough to make her tipsy.
But she had just heard her sister speak, and her sister’s words were clear, with no signs of slurring at all.
"He’s always the type to overreact. Just ignore him." Easton Holmes, having stood beside Lily during her conversation with Alice, had heard the sisters’ conversation clearly. He also picked up that the person on the other end didn’t sound drunk.
Although he said it lightly, there was a hint of concern in his heart.
The tone of his good friend when he called was so urgent that he could feel it was genuine, not feigned.
What exactly happened between those two? Why did one seem so anxious, while the other seemed calm and composed?
Lily didn’t notice anything unusual; Alice’s tone and voice were both normal, and Thomas tried to remain calm when speaking with her after being warned by Easton, so she didn’t detect anything wrong from either of them.
"Right, Thomas is still waiting for me to call him back, I’d better do it quickly so he won’t worry about my sister." As Lily was about to return the phone to Easton, she suddenly remembered that Thomas was waiting for her call back, so she quickly picked up the phone again.
After dialing Thomas’s number, she placed the phone against her ear.
"Sister-in-law! Did you reach your sister?"
As soon as the phone rang once, Thomas picked up the call and immediately spoke anxiously.
Hearing this, Lily furrowed her brows in confusion, "Didn’t you get through to my sister just now?"
As soon as she asked, she belatedly realized that he couldn’t reach her sister, which was why he called her.
"Mm!"
Thomas instinctively responded with a nod and a hum, but suddenly felt something was off, yet couldn’t immediately pinpoint what was wrong.
"My sister’s phone connected right away, how come you couldn’t get through?" Lily was fixated on the fact that Thomas couldn’t get through and didn’t think to consider anything else.
Easton Holmes suddenly reached over, took the phone from her hand, and, rather than putting it to his ear, held it up and spoke directly into it, "Handle things yourself and stop bothering me and your sister-in-law."
After saying that, he unapologetically hung up the call.