“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.

should think this through, though. She’s not in her best mental state

Skylar responded half-heartedly and hung up

You’re heartless.

had given her and withdrew a thousand in cash. Then, she dropped by a fruit stall

her past were so vague that the young woman didn’t know what her own

notification of a one-thousand cash withdrawal on his phone

met. She had only used one thousand despite having kept the

that, Skylar carried the fruit basket to Haywest Hospital and obtained Miranda’s ward number

door to Miranda’s ward, a young, handsome, and gentle-looking

oddly familiar to Skylar as though they had

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

ward number, making sure she wasn’t

just been hospitalized. This is her

would Tobias be interested in a girl whose mother just came

He merely leaned against the door frame with

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