After the divorce, he begged

The vouchers

Rebecca Relect a slept sounidly that night without Jeffrey next to her. When she woke up in the morning, the felt a rare

After breakfast, she reminded Samuel about a couple of things before heading out to the Reed residence to tutor Emily, Victor promptly had a car ready to take her there.

When Reberra showed up, Lucas’s eyes flickered with surprise. “Rebecca”

Rebecca gave a slight nod and headed inside.

Emily lit up the moment she saw Rebecca, dashing over and wrapping her up in a big bear hug.

You came to tutor Emily?” Lucas followed them to the dance studio, starting to say something, but then biting back his words.

“Yep, Rebecca said casually, not catching on to the awkward vibe. “Last week, I wasn’t sure I’d make it back this Saturday, and I mentioned it to you. If there was any change, I would’ve told you, but nothing came up, so it’s still the usual Saturday.”

“Yeah, I know,” Lucas nodded and then paused, looking like he wanted to say more but stopped himself.

Rebecca got puzzled.

Lucas, with one hand in his pocket, walked up to Emily. He mulled it over and then finally said. “Didn’t Jeffrey mention anything to you?”

Rebecca frowned, “Tell me what?”

“He called me yesterday and resigned on your behalf. Lucas explained. “He said you wouldn’t be coming to tutor Emily anymore and asked me to find her a new teacher.”

Rebecca furned, her anger flaring up.

Lucas went on, “Honestly, if it were up to me, I’d rather have you keep tutoring her.”

“When we made the deal, you and Stephen promised not to fire me because of Jeffrey, Rebecca shot back. every detail clear in her mind. “Does that still stand or what?”

Lucas shrugged, not hiding anything. “If you and Jeffrey were still fighting, yeah, that’d hold. But you two made up, didn’t you?”

The whole point was to mess with Jeffrey, but now, if Rebecca stayed, he’d definitely make a move. With Stephen buried under a mountain of work, Lucas really didn’t want to drag Stephen into this mess.

“Understood, Rebecca replied calmly, getting what Lucas was getting at..

to dig up some info on Joanna and help set up a meeting with

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hesitate

Lucas pressed, “Why

already told you the reason last time, Rebecca said

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finding someone and digging up info was easy. If he couldn’t do

point in

fixed on Rebecca, his thoughts

front of Emily, her voice soft and comforting. “Make sure to listen to your new teacher and keep working hard, okay? With your talent

“Okay.” Emily nodded.

set in stone and there was no use dwelling

walk you out,” Emily insisted, grabbing Rebecca’s hand and throwing Lucas

daughter’s command,

reached the door, Emily peeked back to make sure no one was eavesdropping, and then leaned in and whispered to Rebecca, “Joanna is my

already guessing

miss you,” Emily said, squeezing

phone and called Jeffrey. He picked up after just a couple of rings. “Did you seriously quit my

sure,” Andrea answered, her voice gentle as ever. “Hang on; I’ll

on the other end. Andrea knocked at the bathroom door and said, “Jeffrey, Rebecca’s on the line asking why you quit her part–time job. What do

much. She saw right through Andrea’s tricks. Still, after Jeffrey kept claiming he had nothing to do with Andrea, his showering at her

hear me with all that water running. I’ll talk to him when he gets

when Andrea piped up again, “Aren’t you even a little curious why Jeffrey’s taking a shower over at my

flatly. “Not

said, her voice all coy and fluttery. “And

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shower.”

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been jumping to all sorts of wild theories in her head, convinced there was something shady going on between Jeffrey

and a grateful friend–nothing more. Rebecca couldn’t fully understand some of his actions, but deep down, she knew he wouldn’t actually get involved

directly. “You’re missing a

on a confused front. “Huh? What are