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."

he had brought this upon himself, I wasn't going

look back at his expression and left the restaurant with

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 three hours. I decided to go directly to

along the roadside, suddenly kissing as they walked and then gazing at each other with silly smiles. Youth was so

the location Frank had given, I realized that the neighborhood was the same one where he

the car and sent

what's the

instantly, "Building 6, Unit

Same building, same unit.

for the one-unit-per-floor arrangement, it

easily found the door, then rang

several minutes before the door was pulled. open

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the voice was lounging in a wheelchair, his sharp and stern face looking seemingly lazy

our

leg was hurting and asked me to come check on

looked at me with cocked brows." don't

and smiled. "Then I'll

that, I turned to

firmly, using a

steadied myself. "Didn't you say

eyes were unfathomable as he said coldly, "It suddenly started hurting again, and now your help is needed. Is there a

all." I smiled and nodded, pointing to a pair of house slippers on the floor. "Can I wear

"They're Alana's."

and opened the shoe cabinet, retrieving a new pair of slippers from

off my high heels and was changing shoes when Frank said with

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