Chapter 328

Her rare softening towards him made it hard for Curtis to let go of her hand.

The car ride felt infuriatingly short, as if conspiring against him, and they soon arrived at Golden Grove Manors. Leanne withdrew her hand and stepped out of the car.

Curtis followed, dreading the thought of her two best friends waiting upstairs, always in the way.

“I think I left something back at the restaurant, how about you come with me to pick it up?”

Leanne wasn’t buying his lame excuse. “Or maybe you left your brain there?”

Curtis chuckled, “Then what excuse would work to keep you a bit longer?”,

Leanne didn’t reply immediately, casually slinging her bag over her shoulder, not hurrying off.

The magnolia trees were budding anew, their lush branches casting deep, tranquil shadows in the night.

Her silhouette was bathed in the soft glow of the porch light, her features blurred into a picturesque softness, her neck graceful and elongated like an elegant swan.

In the quiet, she asked, “Curtis, when did you start liking me?”

never really questioned it. But if I had to pinpoint it, I

her did he

me do you like?”

in you, like a young sapling, fragile and swaying with the wind, yet earnestly striving

love the way

words flowed effortlessly from Curtis.

reason; love is just

just be feeling a brotherly kind of love,”

from her shoulder to

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his sister? That’s just

the marriage for Mary’s

her hands in his, looking

want this marriage,

under his gaze.

you’ve dated so many

of his life, easily dismissed with a

touched hers, “Back then, I didn’t

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