Loose 578


Chapter 578

“Okay, Mom,” Yvonne answered, doing exactly as I asked.

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Turns out, without those sugar–coated lessons laced with poison from a stepmom, Yvonne’s just a really sensible kid.

Jared looked like he wanted to say something, but in the end, his voice grew serious as he said, “Mom, take Yvonne home.”

“But…” Sally was this close to blurting out her real reason.

“Let’s go,” Jared said, giving me a complicated look before turning to Nathan. “Nathan, thanks for helping Victoria and Yvonne out. Get some rest.”

Nathan gave a gentle smile. “Really, it was nothing. No need to thank me.”

Sally looked a bit reluctant, but she picked up her basket and walked out.

“Mom, Nathan, I’ll come over tomorrow morning,” Yvonne called, waving her little hand at us.

Finally, the room was quiet. Nathan let out a sigh of relief and eased himself back against the pillow, careful not to aggravate his wound. He looked at me with a helpless smile.

“Jared’s mom is really something,” Nathan said, looking straight at me. “She came in here and started playing matchmaker, even brought photos of potential girlfriends.”

I shrugged and laughed. “She’s got a lot of connections–knows plenty of rich girls. If she’s introducing you, you’re really making out pretty well.”


“Victoria, don’t you think there’s something else going on with her trying to set me up?” Nathan said, sharp as ever, already seeing through the whole act.

chuckle. “Oh? So what did

shot me a long–suffering look. “She wants you and Jared back together, so she’s trying to marry me off to someone else as fast as

not just reading way too much into this?” I shot him

when it comes to this kind of stuff, I’m like the most sensitive guy ever,” Nathan

little washed out from the injury, he almost made you feel

wrong. That’s exactly what she’s thinking,” I admitted. Sally knows Jared won’t even consider dating anyone else as long as I’m

stubborn type. She’s got two plans: one, try to get me and Jared tangled up

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Chapter 578

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she’s working on Plan A, making sure any guy interested in

“speechless” written

Don’t take it to

comfort him.

He just sat there in silence, his eyes quietly fixed

hair actually made him look

narrow eyes, something dark and unreadable flickering in his gaze. In that instant, it was

still got blood on it–why

suddenly acting all bold and not even pretending to be shy

about to do that anyway. I grabbed a basin, filled it

towel around in the steaming–hot water, wrung it out, and as I unfolded it, a cloud

hand, but for some reason, even his usually nimble fingers seemed to fumble with

me do it,” I


hand fall away and just

had on underneath was a fitted black

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