“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.

 

way to her, whether she

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

leaned over and tucked the girl in, all the while marveling

her arm still looked raw, and the iodine tincture had been placed at the side

swab with the tincture and rubbed it over

was slow and deliberate while he constantly

bed the next day, she noticed the yellowish stain upon

it seemed improbable

being close to roll call. As

it up that she realized that he was still using an Android

him for the nostalgic

though, she was stuck with her old phone previously due

show notifications for a dozen missed calls. All of them

Skylar’s conscience. She felt like she had hurt the woman and was single-handedly

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