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“It’s not about being stubborn,” Jeffrey said, fully aware of everything he had done. “Some things just have to be done. I have to prove to them that I could actually keep the promises I made.”

“And then what?” Riley asked. “You may wreck your whole family just for that promise.”

Jeffrey’s eyes darkened slowly. He didn’t say another word. “You don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Someone who doesn’t care about promises won’t think it’s impressive, even if you keep it,” Riley said, seeing right through him. “They’ll just think you’re stupid and inflexible.”

“I think you handled it wrong, too,” Stanley said, taking a risk and speaking what he usually kept inside. “Your family should come first.”

Jeffrey scanned their faces. “If you love preaching that much, why not get a new job?”

Stanley was speechless. Riley clicked his tongue. Jeffrey picked up the untouched glass of wine on the table and downed it in one go. He set the glass down, stood up, and said, “I’ve got things to do. I’ll leave first. Charge

it to me.”

He grabbed his phone and suit jacket and left the private room. Watching him go, Stanley rubbed his glass and looked at Riley. “Aren’t you gonna say anything more?”

“No use,” Riley said. “What happened back then hurt him too much. He has an obsession with promises that no one else can understand. You could say a thousand things, and he still wouldn’t listen.”

Stanley’s expression darkened with complicated thoughts. “Are you sure Andrea is really his lifesaver from childhood?” Riley asked. Something about it didn’t feel right.

“I’m sure,” Stanley said. “When he found out, he had it checked multiple times. Andrea has the scar from saving him, and she really was at the scene back then.”

Riley thought for a moment, her handsome face impossibly striking. “Can someone’s personality really change that much?”

As a child, she could risk herself for others. As an adult, she became selfish. No matter how much the environment influenced her, it shouldn’t have changed her that drastically.

“Jeffrey had thought about it, too,” Stanley said as he leaned back on the sofa. “He had even looked into Andrea’s childhood. The neighbors all said she had been sensible and obedient when she was little, a truly good child.”

check her whole

her life?” Stanley said, knowing Jeffrey’s ways. “He just confirmed the details about

Stanley looked puzzled.

something.” Riley clinked the last of her drink against his glass, finished it in one gulp, and then finally spoke. “Remember

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still hung up on it. “Didn’t Jeffrey

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started digging in detail. She didn’t believe that someone capable of doing such a thing would have the courage

of Andrea’s records and couldn’t help but furrow her brows. Based on the information, aside from Andrea’s questionable character, there didn’t seem to

the same university. After some thought, she shut down the computer

sitting in her living room, she grew

more surprised

the police. Richard was her father. When the police arrived, she could not

heart–to–heart with you,” Richard said, trying to look fatherly. “You’ve been working, taking

believe a word of it. Richard pressed on. “Don’t you want to know why

him, waiting for him to give an explanation. Of course, he wasn’t going to

ambition in his eyes. “But before I do, you need to come with me somewhere and get

head

married. Some of her

“Then

you ever did was goof off. What would you know?”

don’t have a key,” Rebecca

a bit. “Your mom set it up with facial recognition and an iris scan. You have to press once, and

but what May had told her made it seem at

don’t believe me, ask May.

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May a message, keeping an eye on her dad the whole time. He had