By the time they returned to A City, it was already morning.

Naturally, Tom drove the company Bentley back to the company.

Sue alighted from the car.

On the other side, Jean brought Bianca's luggage down from the trunk as he said, "I'll send you back home first so you can rest. Sleep well, and TH come find you at night."

Bianca nodded.

They pushed their luggage along as they said goodbye to Sue and Tom. After

that, they walked to the roadside and hailed a cab.

Jean was thinking he should go buy a car tomorrow.

It was too inconvenient without a car.

Bianca was both tired and sleepy. She had slept for slightly over two hours in the car last night, but sleeping in the car was by no means comfortable.

Before they could find a cab, Jean's phone rang.

"Let me pick this up." Jean looked at his phone and gave Bianca's a heads-up before accepting the call.

Bianca looked at him and saw that he was frowning. He said "okay" into the phone a few times before

adding, "Alright, I'll be there." "Is something the matter?" Bianca asked after he hung up.

"Yeah. Our team leader said all of us have to be there before lunch for a meeting. They want to strike while the iron is hot and discuss the next steps," Jean said, looking like he had a headache coming on. That was when a cab drove around the corner.

Bianca looked at the cab and took his luggage from him. "Go on, then. I can go back myself."

Jean felt really guilty. As her boyfriend, it was only natural for him to send his girlfriend home after she returned from an exhausting business trip. Yet now he had to eschew that responsibility because of his work.

Bianca got into the cab.

It began to drive slowly away.

Bianca drifted in and out of sleep.

After some time, the cabbie turned around and told Bianca in the backseat, "We're here."

Bianca opened her eyes and saw she was outside her neighborhood.

Clearing her mind, she got out of the car.

The cold was making her feel very uncomfortable.

In the five years since she left A City, she had lived independently and gotten used

to toughing it out alone whenever anything went wrong. A cold or fever was

nothing to her anymore.

how strong she was, she

still wanted

Jean did not seem to notice that she was sick at all, and that left her

been two days and one night since she left home, and now she was back. She was so exhausted

heavy. She might have fallen asleep for a while, but when she next woke up, she felt as though she was breathing

up and went in search of

when her bell rang. Bianca hit the intercom and asked weakly,

Jean and Nina, no one else knew about

day, Miss Rayne. I'm from the neighborhood hospital, someone ordered a home call for you. Something about giving you a shot?" The visitor

Bianca thought it over.

them?

notice that

fragile and sensitive right now. Forget a

someone delivered some food to her

when she went to open the door, but then she realized it was no ordinary delivery. There was a veritable feast there, the kind that she only saw in

and woman who had brought the food looked

looked at it, she was just a regular salary worker. There was n o way she was used

bill and

fancy meal, Bianca

not all that wealthy. She could accept it when he spent a bit of money on movies or restaurant meals usually, but something this crazy gave her a bit of a

he already ordered

to eat a few more bites. The meal was mostly mild in taste and easy to eat, as though it

lunch, she cleaned up her house and sent Jean a message

just wrote two

"For what?"

Jean replied.

second before she thought it

he was her boyfriend after all. That was why she responded with,

response came after a long pause. "Why are you acting all

knew that she was not being sappy, she was just moved. She lost her father's love to another mother and daughter, and she had not been in contact with her aunts and uncles for a long time now. They barely counted as her

other words, she was probably the loneliest of

the only ones who could give her

that he would come visit

and said that something had come up, so he could not make

three dishes and one soup that

cling wrap,

The next day.

drove over

got into the car, her cold making her voice sound thick and

looked at her. "Oh,

putting on her seatbelt, turning to look

it cold?" Jean reached out his arm in concern and touched her forehead. It was really hot to the touch, so she immediately

left the car to

made it plenty obvious. What he was saying told her without a doubt that

about her cold

and fancy feast for

no way it could

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