Remembering Tobias’ obsession with cleanliness, Skylar cleaned the soles of her shoes before entering the house.

When they were inside, the man went to the bathroom to retrieve a warm towel for her. She received it and bent down, ready to wipe her shoes off when he suddenly said, “That’s for your hair and face. You got wet after getting down from the car, didn’t you?”

After a moment of hesitation, she reached up and used the towel to dry her hair off, hanging it back in the bathroom once she was done.

Her gaze fell upon the toilet. The cover was open, and there were no feminine products by the washbasin. Everything that was there was all arranged neatly.

Knock, knock.

Skylar quickly composed herself and opened the door, greeting Tobias with a smile. “You did a good job at cleaning up the bathroom.”

 

She didn’t say anything more, but he knew she’d stayed so long in there to check if there were any traces of another woman’s presence.

He led her to the dining room, where she cautiously took a seat down at the table. She felt weirdly antsy and not as comfortable as she was with Madelyn.

 

took out a box and placed it on the table in front of Skylar, who merely

thinking about the

likely come up in future web searches of “crazy fan behavior,” and the story would never be

name once more that Skylar snapped back

bring me here? He has to know about what happened at the mall today. Why didn’t he ask about it or offer any

opened up the box, revealing the medium-sized cake inside

today

identity card and her real birthdate was different. When registering for the card, she had altered her birthdate

background checks hadn’t been as strict, so she hadn’t needed any sort of connections to do so. It came as a

was clearly an afterthought of his that had possibly been randomly bought

today was her birthday.

to place much importance on birthdays ever since she was a child. Her grandma would cook a simple

else celebrated her birthday, and no one else other than her grandma remembered the

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