"I'm sorry, Mr. Jackson. Perhaps I wasn't thinking right. I just thought that..." She didn't know what to say. She just felt as though she were in a fantasy.

"There's no need to apologize. I should be the one doing that instead," Christopher said with a sigh. "I thought there was something between us, but I might have made a mistake. I was a fool." "No," Sydney exclaimed.

A glint flashed past the depths of Christopher's eyes, but a look of despondence overtook him. "No? Do you mean that we..."

Sydney spoke too soon, realizing that she might have fallen into his trap. He was a scheming man, after all.

"Mr. Jackson, I meant that it's very normal for people to overthink things. It has nothing to do with you being foolish."

Her instincts warned her against getting too close to this man.

"Mr. Jackson, I have something to attend to and need to go. See you."

Sydney then turned to leave.

"Is that goodbye?" Christopher asked, looking at her retreating figure. "Or do you really mean that we will see each other again?"

Sydney stopped in her tracks, unsure of what to say in response to him.

"I have a good relationship with my husband," Sydney said.

Christopher forced a smile. "But that's not what I heard."

leapt as she turned around. "Did

Your relationship with your husband doesn't seem as good as you put it to be. He was unfaithful to you in the past, didn't he?" Pain

private room. Her hastily retreating figure made

-

drove all the way

it more convenient for her to take

was confused

and always asking to go home. Yet, when she was asked where her

en

before getting out of the car and entering the

she could hear a racket

trying to do? Let me go!

treat me as though I'm made of paper. I need to find Rose." "Grandma," Theodore said, "Rose is very busy right

Rebecca. However,

Sydney walked in.

past Rebecca's eyes when Sydney appeared.

her mind almost immediately after she spoke. "Oh, Syd. Look at me

here to

me talk sense into

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