A Farewell After Being Reborn

Chapter 11

Shane said, “I have a question that I forgot to ask you, Mrs. Holcomb.”

A question for Sage? “What is it?”

He waved his phone gleefully. “Who do you think will win the bet? Will it be me or Mr. Holcomb?”

From the way he waved his phone around, Sage understood what he meant. The fact that she’d left his number and said that she wanted to learn from him meant that she thought he was better than Ian.

Shane was trying to achieve two things by asking her this–he wanted to put her in a tough spot while also provoking Ian.

Sage smiled faintly and said diplomatically, “Bets don’t just depend on a person’s capabilities, really. It also depends on luck.”

“What do you think of my luck, then?”

“I honestly wouldn’t know. But let me wish you good luck, Mr. Morrison.”

Shane wanted to say something else, but Ian had already closed the window, cutting their conversation short.

“When have you and him been so friendly with each other?” Ian asked impatiently when Sage turned to look at him.

Sage threw her hair over her shoulder carelessly. “We’re not. Not yet,

anyway.”

It was hard to say what would happen in the future, though. Shane’s company, Farsight Investment, was a good place to work. But if she were to go there, that would put her and Ian on opposing sides.

Though she was mad and resentful over Ian neglecting her and getting her, admitted to a mental institution, she knew very well he hadn’t had any

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That was why she’d yet to decide whether she wanted to make this move.

underlying meaning. He

turned green. Shane put the pedal to the metal and shot forward before cutting into the lane Ian and Sage were in. Then, he drove in front of Ian, slowing down

and moved left when Ian did. He didn’t give Ian the chance to overtake him. Even if Sage wasn’t the one driving, she couldn’t help feeling like Shane

this for a while,

of emotion, but his gaze was cold as he stared straight ahead. She had a bad

making the car shoot forward like a wild horse set free. Sage had

Shane’s car with a loud

forward and slammed back against the seat. When she looked

hadn’t stopped. He drove forward a bit before reversing the

ramming into them.

had reacted quickly enough to swerve the car away, Shane’s car

rammed into a tree by the

was almost thrown

Sage threw her arms

glass about to land all over

against a hard chest. As she listened to Ian’s pounding heartbeat,

previous life, she’d once leaned against Ian’s chest when he’d been drunk. She’d listened to his heartbeat. It had been far slower than the speed at which it was racing now. Was Ian worried about her?

Ian’s voice was slightly irritated.

of what had just happened, she shouted, Have you lost your mind? How could you

before she could finish. “Get out of the

hand out to her as he gave

for words. He was the one who’d gone crazy and rammed into someone’s car. Why was