Hold My Tear, I’m Getting My Wife Back!

Chapter 171

But her response was so swift it reeked of deceit.

Curtis wanted to stop her, to make her look into his eyes and say it again.

Just as he took a couple of steps forward, the group had already reached the summit. Joy and Selina were leading the charge, and upon seeing Leanne, they scrambled toward her.

“Curtis, you scoundrel! I knew you had a hand in her disappearance!”

“I’m beat! We turned around and you were gone; we nearly doubled back to look for you. Skyler said you took a shortcut, and this one,” Selina pointed at Leanne, panting like she’d run a marathon, “ran like her life depended on it!”

“Where’d you guys come up from? There’s a shortcut and you didn’t tell us? Where’s the team spirit?” she added, hands on her hips.

“It wasn’t my doing.” Leanne said smoothly, cheekily shifting the blame, “I was kidnapped.” “I was nearly chewed out by these two along the way.” Skyler arrived, looking equally winded, and with a sigh of resignation, said to Curtis, “You owe me big time for this one.”

Curtis’ expression was unreadable, but when he spoke again, his usual indifference had returned, “That original painting you liked last time, come by and pick it up place.”

from m

my

Skyler was taken aback by the generosity, “Seriously? I was just saying, you don’t have

to-”

Curtis, with a weary look, cut him off, “Got a smoke?”

As Skyler reached into his pocket, Jeremy pulled out a pack and offered it up.

Curtis glanced at the cigarettes and looked up, making silent eye contact. No words were exchanged. He took one and headed toward the cliff’s edge, “Thanks.”

burst forth, painting the skies with golden hues, awakening the slumbering landscapes in a dazzling

large rock, Joy and Selina were suddenly reinvigorated by

Leanne, the grandiosity seemingly soaking

essence.

feeling a sense of expansiveness-as if all her burdens were lifted in that

all? In the grand scheme of mountains and seas, sunrises

love was but a fleeting

beside

caught his breath, “Man, I’ve never worked so hard for a

timing.

Jeremy had drifted downwind for a smoke while Skyler and his girlfriend, Grace, were cozying up for a

took the camera, snapped a picture, and

I wasn’t even ready! Joy exclaimed, furning as

the camera

readjusted the lens and settings. “Always with the drama. Hurry up and

Joy and Selina were the kind of people who could give models a run for

over! Let’s take

their side. Skyler

his cigarette away and strolled back with a

the group’s eyes fell upon him, Skyler intuitively wrapped his arm

next to

agreed to make the trip back up

Chapter 172

the mountain revealed a world bathed in sunlight, a stark contrast to the night before. Warmth embraced them, a comforting change to the chill they had faced during

they decided to pause for al break and grab some breakfast.

of the lounge chairs. Leanne had no intention of

school days one who was often bullied. There was that high school bully who had a crush on