Eliza murmured in agreement.

"We're all friends, he shouldn't mind." Aaron handed Eliza a business card. "I've already spoken to the boss. If you decide to go for it, you can head straight there. He is a really nice guy." "Thank you, Aaron."

After getting out of the car, Aaron handed her an umbrella. "Take this."

"I'm good. It's just a short walk."

"The rain in early autumn is chilling, and you're already soaked. Just take it, please."

Eliza obediently took the umbrella, thanked him, and watched as Aaron left. As she turned around, she almost bumped into a wall of muscle.

Lifting her eyes, she found herself staring into a pair of brooding eyes. Wasn't Casper supposed to be at the hospital with Nova? Why was he here, at the bottom of her apartment building? "What are you doing here?"

"If I hadn't come here, I wouldn't have known you'd asked Aaron to bring you home."

another man. Whether he

"Would you believe me if I said

think I'm that

Eliza or see her get in the car

minutes, and you're already flirting with Aaron. Really, Eliza? You're being naughty," he said, roughly pulling her closer. "Do you just enjoy not

was in pain and reached out to block him, which only angered Casper further. He twisted her ear, turning

ear was brutally torn. The umbrella she held was blown away by the wind, tumbling across the ground and into the

watched her almost indifferently.

to the hospital alone to get treated. The doctor stitched her up with cosmetic surgery, ensuring there would be no scars. Eliza sat outside the emergency room and closed her eyes while receiving

over. "What happened? How did you

accident." Eliza didn't want to

she looked at it, almost cursing out loud. "An earlobe tear? How could you have damaged your own ear? Who did this? Was it Casper?" Eliza didn't answer. Her phone chimed. A message from an unknown number requesting to add her as a friend.

accepted the request. The stranger

deep pockets, that bastard named Casper. "...is he trying to make amends with money? Or buy his way out of

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