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.”

the skies with golden hues, awakening

a large rock, Joy and Selina were suddenly

sunlight bathed Leanne, the grandiosity seemingly soaking into her very

essence.

sense of expansiveness-as if all her

after all? In the grand scheme of

but a fleeting moment in life.

suddenly leaped up beside her, startling her enough to nearly

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

timing. Take a picture for us.”

had drifted downwind for a smoke while Skyler and his girlfriend, Grace, were cozying up for a couples photo. The girls were one

the camera, snapped a

kind of shot is that? I wasn’t even ready! Joy

the camera

“Always with the drama. Hurry up and get in

of the three girls, followed by individual poses. Joy and Selina were the kind of people who could give models a run for their money, cycling

on over!

true gentleman by their side. Skyler and Grace moved in from the other

his cigarette away and strolled back with a

wrapped his arm around Grace and stepped

next to Leanne

on earth he agreed to make the trip back up to be their go-to guy for the day

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broke, the descent from the mountain revealed a world bathed in sunlight, a stark contrast to the night before. Warmth embraced them, a comforting change to the chill

as they decided to pause for

lounge chairs. Leanne had no intention of making

the air of confidence that 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