Ian went to settle the tab when they finished their meal. Serena got up and searched her bag for her lipstick but her expression turned ugly after failing to find it despite having rummaged through her bag multiple times over.

Leah was quick to pick up on her mood. “What’s wrong?”

Serena looked up. “I lost my lipstick. It’s the one that Jesse gave me. Wah…”

She was on the verge of tears.

Leah froze.

Jesse was a man that Serena admired. She had fallen for him back in high school. Jesse had gifted her lipstick for her birthday. Its shade didn’t match her very well, but she treated it like a precious gem. She would use it whenever she was to attend a big event or participate in a competition as a lucky charm.

“What happened? Did you drop it somewhere?” Leah frowned. “Calm down. Let’s think about it.”

Serena thought about it for a moment before clapping her hands together. “I must’ve dropped it in the restroom. I’ll go look for it!”

Leah picked up her purse. “I’ll come with you.”

The duo rushed to the restroom in a feverish hurry but before Leah even had a chance to look, Serena let out a high-pitched shriek.

“What?” Leah immediately asked.

“My lipstick! Oh my god!” Serena yelped and lunged forward.

Hearing this, Leah took a closer look, and her expression ever so subtly shifted.

A little boy was sitting in the corner with lipstick in hand and doodling on the walls.

It was as if he were using it as a paintbrush and was drawing very vigorously.

Serena swooped in to salvage it and snatched the lipstick from the boy.

The little boy burst into tears and wailed.

His cries also caught his mother’s attention. The door to one of the stalls swung open as a shrill voice resounded, accompanied by the clacking of her heels. “Charlotte, what’s wrong sweetie?”

That voice…

Leah seized up.

her strength, panicked, and found a random toilet stall to

weak as she

She hadn’t been mistaken.

woman was Molly

into Molly Lamere

to have run into the two of you again.” Outside,

one who lost it. Why are you yelling at my son? How much

lost it but didn’t anyone teach you that you shouldn’t touch what doesn’t belong to you?” Serena’s

insane. He’s just a kid. Yeah, he

rendered speechless and could barely

on him? Huh? I’m asking someone to judge whether or not

around to see that Leah was

did Cindy go?” Serena

hidden in the stall,

in, followed by a man’s voice ringing out. “What’s going

Leah trembled violently.

voice was more than familiar to her and was once what haunted her

approached Han and held him by his arms while cradling

voice could be heard.

Daddy?

to hear the way he was

Han and Molly indeed had a child. She had been gone for two years. The

What a coincidence.

boy up with ease

She just won’t let it

he

‘How much is it? I’ll pay

you, there are things that money cannot always buy. This lipstick is something very important to me. It isn’t about

his lips, looking

do you want to settle

in check. Money isn’t everything. You might not run into someone

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