"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.

instructed his driver,

"Right away, Mr. Sherwood."

feeling the rush of the wind through the window, until the darkening sky and the oppressive air reminded him

sudden screech of brakes jerked Murray

snapped,

"A woman just ran out in front of us.

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

simple

clinging to her skin, resembling a fragile flower struggling in the storm, poised between holding on and being torn away. Even the driver couldn't help but

gaze coldly, unaffected. "When did our security become so lax? Letting just anyone in. Notify security, have her removed." The driver snapped to

and brother, unable to return

vel

in the backseat, his

window, pounding on it, "Murray, it's me... I'm back... please, don't

you're all I have left. I know I was wrong, I swear I'll do whatever you

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