“You’re supposed to be the one satisfying my whims, not the other way round. This wasn’t part of the deal,” Tobias said.

Skylar lowered her head in silence.

Truth be told, she thought she might be pushing her luck with him here.

“Let’s just forget it. It doesn’t matter who’s behind that keyboard, seeing how messed up everything already is.”

Unbeknownst to her, he had already sent the link to the IT department, as he could tell at a glance that the photograph was doctored. He was curious to know who could have done something so sinister and why.

After that, he pulled her into his arms and took in the lightness of her scent. “Try to stay out of trouble, yeah? An old man like myself can’t be running around cleaning up after you.”

 

The young woman looked at him. Her eyes widened at how his tone could have graduated from cold to warm, then affectionate.

She held her head close and nodded quietly.

 

found its way to her, whether she wanted

out of the shower, Skylar was sprawled out on the bed. Her

tucked the girl in, all the while marveling

the iodine tincture had been placed

the tincture and rubbed it

movement was slow and deliberate while

bed the next day, she noticed the

handiwork, as it seemed improbable that she could have done that in her

to roll call. As Skylar got dressed, she noticed that his phone

that she realized that

not take him for the nostalgic

him, though, she was stuck with her old phone previously due to her

notifications for

had hurt the woman and was single-handedly destroying the life the latter was trying to

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