Burning Passion: Love Never Die

After giving it some thought, Wesley grabbed the bag in her arms and took out his phone.

“How much was it? I’LL pay you back. WeChat Pay okay?”

“No, you don’t have to. I-” She wanted to tell him that she had money now; her aunt had floated her some funds.

But Wesley interrupted her.

“It’s not easy to win a scholarship. You’re taking the GRE test, right? Studying abroad is expensive. You shouldn’t be spending money on stupid things.”

Blair said dully, “My uncle will help me out.”

Since she would have to ask her uncle to help her with Living expenses and schooling once she was overseas, she didn’t think the meager thousands of bucks she had spent on the lighter would make much difference.

let me buy your ticket.

disappointed seeing how persistent he was to pay her

just be

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a girl before, so he had no idea how to handle this. He gave her an infuriating answer, in his single-word style:

to say, nor did he; the apartment fell quiet. After a while, she smiled, “Okay. I’ll remind you to book a flight for me

sweet, but Wesley wasn’t fooled. The sadness behind her

“No problem,” he said.

needed to get out of there, but needed a way to make a graceful exit. She didn’t run

door and then stopped. Without turning back,

caused him to think of so many things-his

without waiting for an answer. If that were true, she didn’t want to hear it. Being rejected again and again would finally break her heart. She might be a confident, skilled woman, but underneath she was just a girl with a fragile

put himself through strenuous training exercises: hiking up mountain trails with a loaded backpack, kicking a tree to toughen his feet until he could barely walk, thrusting his fists into ice-water, and lifting weights