Desires Die Hard

Chapter 35

“Oh Cindy, are you really coming home?” Anya asked in a excited shaky voice as she snapped out from her trance, “Well, you won’t be leaving the country anymore, right?”

“Of course, I came back to inherit my family’s business after all!” It seemed that compared to Anya’s shaky voice, Cindy actually sounded quite excited and happy.

She too had not seen her beloved best friend for years. They had grown up together and had initially agreed to study abroad together right after they were done with high school. They agreed to gaze at the moon by the Seine River while singing love songs together as they drank beer. They also agreed to travel across Paris together.

However, some things happened to Anya’s family and her mom was forced out from her family by a mistress: After that, she had fallen extremely ill, so Anya was unable to travel abroad with her.

It seemed that she had tried to contact Anya for all these years. Perhaps it was due to the series of unfortunate events that had happened to Anya’s family that caused her to not be as cheerful as she used to when they spoke.

However, all of that did not matter anymore because she had returned home now. As long as she beloved Anya.

e was able, Cindy would no doubt help her

“That’s awesome. When you come back, we’d be able to hang out all the time.” Anya sniffled before explaining in a much serious tone, “Well, the thing is, I am no longer part of the MacMillan family anymore nor am I the daughter of the MacMillan family. You won’t abandon me, right?”

“No way, Anya! You’re my best friend for life. Cindy assured her.

be like Anya’s step–sister who

exactly are you returning home then?” Anya asked. She still

to meet each

home to feed her toddlers, she was in quite a rush. Anya rushed back to the company just in time for work. Since she

went by extremely fast and the work day

was rushing to pack up and

get

off work.

the huge window overseeing the office spaces. She was getting ready to leave with her bag. He immediately called her through the intercom,

to return home to meet her toddlers. However, after receiving his call, she could not help but to return to the design department and towards his

knocked on the door.

man who was leaning against his desk and politely said, “What can I do for

Hanson?”

you to come along with me to have dinner with a client

dinner with his

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