In the end, he caved.

"I won't tie you down, just don't be with Merritt."

Wasn't that still a demand?

She had to bend to his will to gain her freedom.

Christine shook her head, weary.

Dailey felt like his head was about to explode.

After much thought, the conversation circled back to the beginning.

"Why did you break up with me?"

"Fell for Merritt?"

Christine had been flying back and forth these past few days, truly exhausted.

She had imagined that upon reaching Helena's cozy backyard, she'd just crash on the sun lounger for a bit, to catch her breath.

The airplane food was atrocious. Merritt had texted her upon her landing, mentioning Helena had saved her some dinner.

And there was roasted sweet potato.

Instead, she found herself cornered by Dailey, unable to rest or eat.

She had no patience for this endless back-and-forth.

"Yes."

As her words fell, she shifted from sitting to lying down.

Dailey loomed over her, his gaze heavy, a vast shadow casting a cold air around her.

Yet, she simply looked at him with a cool detachment, making no move to resist.

atmosphere was tense for a long while before Dailey moved back to his chair. Christine got up, opened the car

hailed a cab and dialed

it connected, Merritt's anxious voice came

"Shouldn't I be asking you

around. I'm a grown man; the worst I'd get is a beating. It's different for a girl." "Especially

feelings for Merritt were

love him, but his words, his actions, they reached

worry. On my

sighed in relief, "I'll

"Okay."

the

a place

other side, the mood wasn't as

not far off, had just

some

noodles and

looking to refuel.

swelongs to

preparing his meal when he saw Christine getting

they'd head upstairs together, but Dailey didn't

From a

e distance, the car

shrouded in

foreboding presence within,

belongs to en.kikist

on a plastic fork, dropped a message in

it was PrimoQuinn

others were in Vista Town, keeping an

at Merritt's doorstep

the good host,

roasted sweet potato, he saw

suddenly lost its

Done for.

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