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 himself, I wasn't going to

expression

mess. If I went back to get the car and then went to Frank's place, it would take

was thick, with many young couples along the roadside, suddenly kissing as they walked and then gazing at

the neighborhood was the same one where he

of the car and sent him

what's the

instantly, "Building 6, Unit 1,

Same building, same unit.

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

phone and easily found

was pulled. open from the inside, accompanied by

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his sharp and stern face looking seemingly lazy and

our

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

looked at me with cocked brows." don't

I nodded and smiled. "Then I'll be

that, I

however, grabbed my wrist firmly, using a bit of force

myself. "Didn't you say you didn't

"It suddenly started hurting again,

at all." I smiled and nodded, pointing to a pair

"They're Alana's."

his wheelchair and opened the shoe cabinet, retrieving a new pair of

off my high heels and was changing shoes when Frank said with a smile. "I heard you went to

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