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."

upon

look back at his expression and left the restaurant with large

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

suddenly kissing as they walked and then gazing at each other with silly smiles. Youth was so wonderful. The

location Frank had given, I realized that the neighborhood was

of the car and

what's the apartment

6, Unit 1, 5th

Same building, same unit.

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

easily found the door, then rang

open from the inside, accompanied by a lazy voice.

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wheelchair, his sharp and

our

said, "Alana said your leg

looked at me with cocked brows." don't need

okay." I nodded and smiled. "Then

I turned to

using a bit of

foyer, I steadied myself. "Didn't you say you didn't need

coldly, "It suddenly started hurting again,

nodded, pointing to a pair of house slippers

"They're Alana's."

cabinet, retrieving a new

changing shoes when Frank said with a smile. "I heard you went to a couples' restaurant

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