Tanya’s improvised monologue left Tobias unimpressed.

To think she had the gall to claim that she was with his child when he had never even touched her.

He was about to grill Tanya when Claudia clutched at her chest again. Her bowed face contorted as her lungs gasped for air.

Immediately, Tobias dialed for emergency services while he propped his mother up. He feared her preexisting condition might be acting up at this very moment.

Skylar only stepped out to pick up the bathrobe on the floor when the room was emptied.

In his hurry, Tobias had left behind his phone and his watch.

 

The timepiece imprinted his warmth upon her hands.

It ticked crisply by the minute and seconds when held close. Should she not be happy?

 

His fiancée had finally caught up, and the climax was spectacular.

why did Tanya’s words felt

arose to regard the scenes outside the window, her

was his. Even if she needed to survive, and even if her mother needed funds for her recovery, she could not be so selfish as to persist in wrangling on

he sought, women were the balm he did

dressed when her eyes fell upon the unsealed box of Okamoto

must be what Tobias had

condemned it to the

her luggage at her feet, she passed his watch and phone along to the

Ford might be back

regarded her was equal parts quizzical and

had not risen when Skylar came out. Thus, rejoining the other students was not an option. She waited for hours by the roadside before the bus took her back to the

a withdrawal of five-thousand with the

her friends at the International Garden

Skylar went upstairs without exchanging pleasantries. After she tore up the contract, his card and the necklace he gifted took over their place inside

took some deliberation before she decided to leave

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