Chapter 60 - Regained Hope (1/2)

Both women were so drunk that Brione blurted, ”Do you know that I have a best friend who looked exactly like Cedric?”

”You do?” Olivia asked with wide eyes.

Brione nodded and laughed then said, ”His name is Gavin Wu. And I strongly believed that he and Cedric were the same person. Gavin went missing last year in a ship accident...”

Olivia was drunk but she was still in her right mind, unlike Brione who seemed to have lost it. She frowned listening to what Brione was babbling.

She grabbed her phone and searched for the name Gavin Wu.

”Oh my God! It's really true!” she exclaimed, feeling completely shocked after seeing the pictures of Gavin.

”See, I told you… That's why I asked you if Cedric has birthmarks. You see my Gavin has it on both sides.” Brion muttered with a drunkard voice.

”Both sides? Both sides of his face?” Olivia asked, feeling confused

”No! Of course not! Butt! I'm talking about both sides of his butt”

”Oh!” Olivia gasped, there was a lot going on in her mind at that moment. She was now sure about what Will and Cedric skipped telling her and turns out that it was about Gavin Wu! No, wait! What if Cedric was actually unaware of it yet?

”Does Cedric know about it? I mean his resemblance with Gavin?” Olivia asked but Brione was too busy drinking so she repeated her question.

”Oh, that… Yeah. Cedric knows about it and even showed me proof that he was not Gavin.”

”And you still believe that he is Gavin? Why?” Olivia asked with a frown.

Brione started to sob suddenly so Olivia got worried.

”Hey are you alright?” she asked, grabbing the bottle from her hand.

”You've had enough alcohol for today. Unlike me, you have a low tolerance for alcohol so you should stop drinking,” she said while taking the vodka bottle away from Brione's hand.

”How do I know? I'm not sure Olivia, but you see this?” Brione whimpered, putting her fisted hand on her chest.

”This… heart… this heart is responsible for it because it keeps on insisting that he is Gavin,” Brione mumbled before she passed out on the couch.

Olivia helplessly slumped her body on the opposite couch. She stared at Brione and sighed. Cedric and most probably Will knew about it too.

She looked at her phone and searched for more information. She cursed, analyzing the timing of Cedric's incident and the ship accident. Many were reported dead or missing at that time as it was hard for the rescue team to search because of the thunderstorm and bad conditions of the sea waves.

Then she stared at Brione for a long time and whispered, ”Could it be true?”

Like Brione, she too had a strong feeling that Cedric was not the real Cedric.

”Stop this Olivia!” she muttered next, chiding herself for hoping that the real Cedric was just  hiding somewhere because that was what Cedric wanted to do for a long time, hide. He did not want to take on the responsibility for a country. Cedric was someone who wanted a normal and peaceful life away from politics.