Chapter 401

Upon hearing this, Ryan seemed somewhat stunned and disheartened.

After a moment, he looked at me in surprise. "You're no even going to lie?"

"You rarely lied in the past as well," I smiled and answered calmly. I had heard too much before. He had never been one to deign to deceive.

"She ran away from home. I need to go find her."

"She's divorced. I'm afraid she might do something rash."

"She got into a car accident. I can't be at ease if I don't check on her."

Later on, he didn't even need to give a reason-he would just say, "I need to see her."

It was always, his sister. He couldn't ignore her.

It seemed that as long as there was that one layer of relationship, any little bit of my complaints would be seen as petty, and obstructing him would be almost like committing a crime.

It was quite ironic. It seemed to match the saying of "What goes around comes around."

Ryan probably never imagined that such a day would come.

He loosened his grip on his cutlery, which clattered onto the plate with a crisp sound, starkly noticeable in the otherwise serenely musical.

restaurant.

He rarely lost his composure, his voice rough as he asked, "Do you really have to go?"

1 picked up my bag, stood up, and said, "This is you being unreasonable. I never stopped you when you wanted to leave before.

Besides, I'm single now."

this upon himself, I wasn't going to

his expression and left the restaurant

parked at the nursing home. With the holiday traffic outside, it was a mess. If I went back to get the car and then went to Frank's place, it would take an extra two or

Uber. The crowd was thick, with many young couples along the roadside, suddenly kissing as they

I realized that the neighborhood was the same one where he had given me an

the car and sent him a

what's the apartment

replied instantly, "Building 6, Unit 1, 5th

Same building, same unit.

floor below. If it weren't for the one-unit-per-floor arrangement, it would

put away my phone and easily found the door, then rang

I waited several minutes before the door was pulled. open

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in a wheelchair, his sharp and stern face looking seemingly lazy and casual, but with a

our

cooperated and said, "Alana said your leg was hurting and asked me to come check on

me with cocked brows." don't

and smiled. "Then I'll be going

that, I

firmly, using a bit of

the foyer, I steadied myself. "Didn't you

coldly, "It suddenly started hurting again, and now your

pointing to a pair of house slippers on

"They're Alana's."

shoe cabinet, retrieving a new pair

heels and was changing shoes when Frank said with a smile. "I heard you went to a couples' restaurant with Ryan for

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