Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

"Payment?" Millie's eyes moved stiffly, a hint of disbelief in her tone. "Didn't it always just come out of my account automatically?"

"Sorry, your account's been frozen."

"Frozen? Why?!"

"The account holder requested it."

Requested it...

"Ha! Murray, you're just merciless!" she laughed through her bitterness.

After spending over a month in the hospital, Millie was finally discharged. As she walked outside, the bright sky and fluffy clouds seemed alien to her, as if from another life.

...

Murray left the office early today.

his car, he instructed his driver, "Take me to the

"Right away, Mr. Sherwood."

the wind through the window, until the darkening sky and the oppressive air reminded him of the approaching storm season, a

Murray forward, his seatbelt the only thing stopping him from hitting the seat

snapped, his

"A woman just

in the rain, drenched, her hair clinging to her neck,

simple white

by the wet fabric clinging to her skin, resembling a fragile flower struggling in the storm, poised between

however, withdrew his gaze coldly, unaffected. "When did our security become so lax? Letting just

to go. Abandoned by her mother and brother, unable to return to her. dorm Murray's

vel

windshield at the man in the backseat, his profile cold and indifferent. He wouldn't even look

to the back window, pounding on it, "Murray, it's

wrong, I swear I'll do whatever