“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.”

retracted her gaze and leaned back on the seat. “I don’t want

send you the address.” Tobias took out a key from the

looking at it, she promptly put it back into the

had just regained her

she were to accept the

as he had dropped off Skylar at the address as

direct him along the way, afraid that

her phone, wanting to give her uncle a call did

uncle’s family, Skylar dared not knock

the door, she eventually

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

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

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

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

of a sudden, she was back in her school

at

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