Echoes of Unrequited Love

Chapter 73

Jason called again, but suddenly there was a different voice on the line.

“Yeah, I’m at Gate 3, would you mind helping me out, sir.”

“Xaviera?” came the surprised voice through the receiver, “It’s me, Darren.”

To my total shock, the person who was helping my flustered uncle find the entrance to the mall turned out to be Darren.

A short while later, when we met up, Jason, with a grateful look, told me, “He was the one who helped. The guy’s awesome.”

Darren listened to him finish his choppy sentences without caring about his stuttering and said with a gentle smile. “Sir, you’re pretty amazing yourself, but next time, remember to check the floor number, okay?”

I explained to Jason, “Darren and I are classmates.”

Jason’s face lit up with surprise and he happily said, “Really? That’s… that’s fate for you.”

Darren told me he was there to take his cousin shopping and had bumped into my lost uncle in the parking garage.

Jason had gotten stuck on the basement level.

said, “Xaviera, he helped me

said with a chuckle. “You know, I

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into a local cuisine

epitome of tact, asking my uncle for his opinion with every dish he

tea connoisseur, just held the cup and gave Darren a.simple, honest

instinctive inferiority complex that can surface when a common man meets someone of higher status, but Darren covered all bases, his

really

was eager to join in, “Perfect, I’ve been meaning to get

“Just don’t laugh at me if my

Chapter 73

of us headed to the women’s

a tender pink down jacket for my aunt among

like a young man in love. “She’ll definitely look good in

to Jason, she was forever young

a twinge in my nose. “Let’s go with this one.”

you going to try it on, Xaviera?”

was Darren who asked.