“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.”

gaze and leaned back

took out a key from the

she promptly put it back into the

but she had just regained her

she must be crazy if she

time as he had dropped off Skylar at the

him along the way, afraid that he would send her

had fished for her phone, wanting to give her uncle a call did

wanting to disturb her uncle’s family, Skylar dared not knock on the door too loudly and could only call

calls or the door,

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

her grievances to her about how her mother was chained and thrown into prison. She

own father was even worse. He could have afforded to raise another child, but he had chosen

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

in her school uniform while heading home after

at the gates,

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