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.”

skies with golden hues, awakening the slumbering landscapes in a

large rock, Joy and Selina were suddenly reinvigorated by the spectacle, their excited screams echoing through the valley.

first rays of sunlight bathed Leanne, the grandiosity seemingly soaking into

essence.

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

grand scheme of

was but a fleeting moment in life.

up beside her, startling her enough to nearly toss her phone off the

“Man, I’ve never worked so hard for

camera, “Perfect timing. Take a

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

took the camera, snapped a picture, and blurted

that? I wasn’t even

the camera

“Always with the drama. Hurry

were the kind of people who could give models a run for their money,

Selina called out, “Hey, come on over!

girls, standing like a true gentleman by their side. Skyler and Grace moved in from the other end

away and strolled back

Skyler intuitively wrapped his

next to Leanne

agreed to make

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descent from the mountain revealed a world bathed in sunlight, a stark contrast to

they decided to pause for

hot water while Suzan took a seat in one of the lounge chairs. Leanne had

seemed to emanate from her. She remembered a different Leanne from their school days one who was often bullied. There was that high school bully who had a crush on her, and the rumor