“How would I know? In any case, it had to be a family member of yours. It was a fancy car.”

A fancy car? It must’ve been Tobias, then.

I don’t know anyone else who drives a fancy car apart from him. Or could it have been Jeremy? Oh, dream on. As if that b*stard would do anything for anyone but himself.

Skylar whipped out her phone only while making her way back home and found several missed calls from Tobias.

She then called him back only to hear an especially disgruntled voice. “You just got a new phone, but it still takes you that long to answer it?”

“I silenced it and kept it in my purse,” Skylar explained. “I’ve just checked it. Where’s my mother?”

 

Tobias sounded slightly taunting. “What’s the point in you knowing? It’s not like you want to see her.”

He’s keeping me on my toes even up till now? Skylar couldn’t take it. “I want to see her. She’s still my mother, after all, so please tell me where she is. Where have you taken her?”

 

Delighted to hear Skylar using the word “please,” Tobias gave her the hospital address.

this through, though. She’s not in her best

half-heartedly and hung up before

You’re heartless.

out the black card Tobias had given her and withdrew a thousand in

young woman didn’t know what

notification of

was possibly the thriftiest woman he had ever met. She had only used one thousand despite having kept

to Haywest Hospital and obtained

handsome, and gentle-looking man, who was dressed fashionably, stood

eyes seemed oddly familiar to Skylar as though

the wrong room.” The man stopped Skylar just as she placed

the ward number, making sure she

my mom’s just been

Tobias be interested in a girl whose mother just came

Sheldon refused to let Skylar in. He merely leaned against the door frame with a

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