I even told Penelope before to have a backup plan for when Brayden decides to leave her, but she refused to listen. How naive can she be?

Skylar waited for almost three hours on the bed for Tobias, but he was still nowhere to be seen.

She went downstairs to check on him. The dining table was already cleaned up and so were the dishes. Wow, he’s way better at this than I am.

Skylar called out Tobias’ name, but there was no response.

Suddenly, footsteps were heard coming from the stairs. Skylar turned her attention toward the sound and saw Tobias treading down the stairs.

He had a black suit on and looked rather dashing.

“It’s already so late. Where are you going? You even changed into your suit.” Skylar lost count of the number of times she had asked him this same exact question.

“I forgot to visit my ancestors’ graves. It’s currently that time of the year. Claudia gave me a call and told me to hurry over. I need to go now. There’s about an hour left. I might still be able to make it in time.”

rather perplexed. What kind of family

you coming home

Tobias murmured, “I’ll try…”

want to accompany me?”

that idea very much. As you already know, your mom isn’t exactly fond

You can just wait for me in

agreed to go with him. I’ll just

match Tobias’s outfit, Skylar wore a black coat paired with black leggings, which

“You should refrain from wearing this type of pants again. It’ll be hard

time like this! Is there anything else

be that hard. You’ll just have to

I’d rather you not wear anything at

got into Tobias’ car and they

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