Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 729

"Roseanne, from the moment we first met at the café, I—"

"Hey there, Mr. Reynolds, Roseanne! Why are you just standing here? Aren't you going up?" Their downstairs neighbor, Mrs. Jenkins, approached them with her arms full of grocery bags, her face beaming with a friendly smile.

"It's freezing out here! I nearly turned into a popsicle... But, you know, these late- night sales are too good to pass up!"

The local supermarket always had a knack for slashing prices after 9 PM. Mrs. Jenkins was thrifty and often ventured out on chilly evenings for the best deals.

Given the situation, continuing the conversation seemed impossible.

Owen Reynolds swallowed the words he had been about to say.

"Come on, let's head up together," Mrs. Jenkins invited warmly.

Roseanne stepped forward to take the bags: "Let me help you with those..."

But in the next moment, Owen Reynolds took them from her, striding ahead. "I got it."

Mrs. Jenkins chuckled. "Owen here is such a gentleman! That's the word you young folks use, right? Gentleman! Don't you agree, Roseanne?"

Roseanne nodded, "Yes, I do."

"Honestly, a fine young man like him should have a girlfriend by now. But he's always buried in his research, aiming for that Nobel Prize or something! It's good to be ambitious, but wouldn't it be better to make some time for romance too?"

him up on dates. Every time we get something planned, he suddenly becomes a ghost-busy with work, gone for days. He thinks we don't

friends are just as wonderful? Maybe

back. "Sure, I'll keep

the spirit! Neighbors should always look out for

Owen set down the bags, quickly bid Mrs. Jenkins goodbye, and hurriedly dragged

unlocking her door, blinking. Wait a

apple bobbing nervously. "Don't mind what Mrs. Jenkins said.

Been where?"

Owen gritted his teeth.

are

"Where haven't you been?"

slowly,

an eye out." With that, Roseanne nodded, and went

Sent belongs to

Owen stood there, bewildered.

Wait...

Why was he relieved?

was she going to keep an

her closed door, Roseanne exhaled

said that just to escape

a brief instant, she feared might

he boy