Chapter 61

"What are you watching?"

Pax slipped his arms around me from behind, his breath warm against my skin. A featherlight kiss landed on my earlobe, sending a shiver down my spine.

His gaze shifted to my phone screen.

For a long moment, he said nothing. Then, with a low chuckle, he reached up and covered my eyes. "Don't watch that... it's embarrassing."

The video kept playing.

On the screen, Pax was in a ballet dress, balancing on tiptoes, spinning in wobbly circles. His movements were clumsy, awkward. But his expression-so focused, so serious—made my chest tighten.

My throat felt dry.

"Was it worth it?" I asked softly.

He had gone this far—putting on a dress, performing ballet, throwing away his pride-all to earn enough to buy me a measly $10 apple cake.

Was it really worth it?

"Of course it was."

He answered without hesitation, his voice lazy, as if it was the easiest thing in the world.

"This is nothing."

"When I make real money one day, I'll buy you designer bags. The kind that cost a hundred grand."

paused after saying that, as if something

on my face, there

in a cramped, rundown apartment in

once the bed was in, there was barely space for anything

A hundred grand.

figure from another world, impossibly out

yet, today-I had

been there that night, watching

beneath a tangled mess of cheap synthetic white hair. The glue used to stick it on must

coordinator took one look at me and

a room

I heard his

in my life have I lived in a place that shitty," Pax said casually. His tone was

window, the whole room reeks of

through the room. Someone chimed in, voice full of

all out, huh? Dressing up like that was

she'll probably be completely devoted

if she'd ever find out that when Nina had her birthday, you bought her a $100,000

Laughter erupted again.

"$100,000."

my head,

Pax, how long are you planning to keep up this poor-boy

she finds out you've

And poor girls are clingy as hell.

out a lazy chuckle. "What's there to worry about? In seven days,

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