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

clenched my fingers into a fist. But on my face, there was still only a soft smile. "Alright," I

rundown apartment in the heart of the

small that once the bed was in,

A hundred grand.

a figure from another world, impossibly out

had heard it

there that night, watching his

beneath a tangled mess of cheap synthetic white hair. The glue used to stick it on must have been low-quality-I felt an itch creeping across my

me and told me

was when I passed by a room

I heard his

kind of over it. Never in my life have I lived in a place that shitty," Pax said casually. His tone was light,

close the window, the whole room reeks of

the room. Someone chimed in,

huh? Dressing up like that

be completely

ever find out that when Nina had her birthday, you bought her a

Laughter erupted again.

"$100,000."

rang in my head,

are you planning to

out you've been fooling

And poor girls are clingy as hell. You better

out a lazy chuckle. "What's there to worry

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