“You can suspect me.” he paused. “In fact, I did come with an ulterior motive-to meet my own sexual needs.”

Skylar had the urge to curse aloud, but she reined in her temper and said helplessly, “This is a bad time, Mr. Ford. I’d suggest you go look for someone else.”

Following that, she deliberately opened her bag to show him the sanitary pads inside.

Tobias, who was driving, glanced at her sideways. “It doesn’t matter to me. Besides running a red light on the road, I’d also love to experience it on the bed.”

Skylar could feel her blood boiling. A rookie like her was definitely no match for someone like Tobias.

So she employed another strategy by laying her cards on the table in hopes to arouse the man’s sympathy.

 

“I’m penniless and jobless, and I was kicked out by the landlady. In short, you’d wish you had stayed away from me. I bring bad luck to the people around me, and there will be retribution if you bully a poor commoner like me.”

Skylar looked at Tobias with such soulful and innocent eyes that made his heart stir.

 

“You can follow me,” he said in a deep voice. “With me, anything that can be solved with money is not a problem.”

her gaze and leaned back

Tobias took out a key from the armrest compartment and

promptly put it back into

be poor, but she had

if she were to accept

he had dropped off Skylar at the

along the way, afraid that

dared not knock on the door too

calls or the door, she eventually slumped down

had lived in since she was young—a place overlaid with memories of

about how her mother was chained and thrown into prison. She didn’t know when her mother would

own father was even worse. He could have afforded to raise another child, but he had chosen to abandon her thoroughly as though she

cold dark night, Skylar paced up and down in front of the old house, gradually feeling

she was back in

at the gates,

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