“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.

though. She’s not in

Skylar responded half-heartedly and hung up before Tobias had even

You’re heartless.

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

past were so vague that the young woman

same time, Tobias stared at the notification of a one-thousand cash withdrawal on his phone and

met. She had only used one thousand despite having

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

young, handsome, and

to Skylar as though they had

gotten the wrong room.” The man stopped

glanced at the ward number, making

just been

woman before him with curiosity. Why would Tobias be interested

He merely leaned against

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