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."

as if something

into a fist. But on my face, there was still

a cramped, rundown apartment in the heart of the

was so small that once the bed was

A hundred grand.

sounded like a figure from

yet, today-I had

didn't know that I had been there that night, watching his

white hair. The glue used to stick it on must have been low-quality-I felt an itch creeping across my

at me and told me to

when I passed by a room with its door left slightly

I heard

a place that shitty," Pax said casually. His tone was light, unfamiliar-nothing like the man I thought

If you don't close the window, the whole room

Someone chimed in,

huh? Dressing up like that was a

she'll probably be completely devoted

out that when Nina had her birthday, you bought her a $100,000 designer bag without even

Laughter erupted again.

"$100,000."

number rang in my

you planning to keep

finds out you've been

And poor girls are clingy as hell. You better hope

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

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