“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.

 

always found its way to her, whether she wanted it

shower, Skylar was sprawled out on the bed.

the girl in, all the while

and the iodine tincture had been placed

dabbed the swab with the tincture and rubbed it over her arm with the lightest

was slow and deliberate while he constantly monitored

of bed the next day, she noticed the yellowish

it seemed improbable that she

still asleep despite it being close to roll call. As Skylar got dressed, she noticed

when she picked it up that she realized that he was still using an Android model from several years

did not take him for

was stuck with her

show notifications for a dozen missed calls. All

like she had hurt the woman and was single-handedly destroying the life the latter was trying to build together with

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