After the divorce, he begged

“Are you sure you want to call me that?” Jeffrey asked. He wasn’t mad at all. He stayed as cool and unconcerned as if nothing could ever stir him.

“I’m absolutely sure,” Samuel replied.

Jeffrey gave him a little flick on the forehead. “Okay.”

He thought, ‘You’re being this polite because you’ll probably need my help again someday, right? If we were too close, you’d hesitate to ask.’

Samuel found his reaction strangely out of character.

“Make sure to tell your mom not to get that wound wet,” Jeffrey reminded as he glanced at Rebecca’s injured ankle before leaving. “Otherwise, it will get worse.”

Samuel didn’t say anything. After Jeffrey left, he pulled Rebecca toward the door. His voice was quiet, yet just loud enough for Jeffrey to catch. “Mom, we need to change the lock code.”

“Okay,” Rebecca replied.

Jeffrey stood by the elevator, watching them busy themselves with the lock. Without a word, he stepped inside. To him, this kind of digital lock was easier to crack than a regular one–just a few lines of code, and it would fall apart.

Rebecca had no idea. She racked her brain to come up with a code that was both memorable and difficult for anyone else to guess.

“Mom,” Samuel said softly after closing the door, his voice tinged with guilt.

“What?” Rebecca responded.

“I’m sorry,” Samuel said, honestly feeling guilty. “I knew you didn’t want to see Dad, but I gave him the code anyway and let him in. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have had to deal with him.”

“I know you did it because you were worried about me,” Rebecca said softly, rubbing his head. “That means a lot, so you don’t need to say sorry.”

“Mom, I love you,” Samuel said as he hugged her tightly.

Rebecca’s heart softened. She asked Samuel how he had been during the past few days at Jeffrey’s place.

Samuel gave the same answer as before. He said he was doing fine, just that he really missed her.

Rebecca knew Jeffrey loved Samuel deeply, and she knew that as long as his parents stayed away, Samuel would be treated with care in his home, but she still didn’t dare let Samuel stay with him.

She had already made up her mind to stay single forever, just so she could put all her energy into taking care

of Samuel.

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her. He was bound to take care of Andrea for the rest of his life, and the thought of Andrea becoming Samuel’s

a while, Rebecca reminded Samuel that it was time for

Samuel off at school as usual before rushing back to the office. She had barely sat down when a crowd of coworkers swarmed around her,

did you have

you sleep well

chandelier fell,

momentarily dazed. Setting down her bag, she gave

last night was Mr. Hanson, wasn’t it?”

I saw

on between you

Stephen wasn’t even the closest one to you. Why did he suddenly rush to

them, but none of them had expected something even juicier to happen

while Jeffrey held her hand. She suddenly

get it? You only noticed Mr. Hanson holding Rebecca’s hand, but none of you paid attention to how hard he

stood out most in their minds was Jeffrey

looked just like one of those movie scenes, where the guy dragged the girl back after

who were on stage at the time just how angry Mr. Hanson was when he

her words, everyone fell silent. Gossip thrived in groups, but once someone interrupted, the buzz just died

you all doing here?” Derek showed up out

what happened last night.” Lisa knew Derek was curious too, so she didn’t bother

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something, and then we could learn more from him. Since he

displeasure.

me,” Derek said as he walked over, his tone

eyes sparkled with eager

about what happened at last night’s party within

They wondered if it was really that serious or if things were