Love's New Bloom by Simone Hastings

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Chapter 78 Do You Know What Time It Is?

“How is it tiring talking to me? I’m so easy to talk to.” Sean laughed.

“Shh, shut up! Someone’s calling me,” Erin shushed. She took out her cell phone from her handbag and saw that her cousin May had called.

As soon as the call connected, she could hear May sobbing over the phone, “Erin…James had abandoned me…I feel so sad, and my heart hurts so much right now…‘

“Have you been drinking, May? Where are you now?” Erin asked nervously.

May had collapsed onto a sofa in a karaoke booth, surrounded by her guy and girl friends.

“May! Say something! Where exactly are you now?” Erin shouted in panic. May was her only family in the city. She could clearly make out that she had been drinking over the phone, so what would happen if bad people were around her?

May hadn’t hung up the call yet, so Erin could still hear some faint music and talking coming from the other end.

At this time, a female friend sitting next to May took over the phone and started explaining, “Hi, May’s classmate here. You’re her cousin, right? May’s passed out drunk now. We’re at the Tipsy Maid at Cloud Road on 56th Avenue, so you can come over and pick her up if you have the time.”

Erin immediately replied, “Great, I’ll make my way there now! Please take care of May for me by then. Thanks!”

“Sure, I’ll stay with her until you get here. Meet us at booth 6255 when you arrive.” May’s classmate instructed.

As soon as Erin hung up the phone, she said, “Can I trouble you to ”

Sean replied with a straight face, “I heard it all just now. Let me drive you there.”

“Thank you!” she answered gratefully.

He suddenly felt overjoyed. It was rare for Erin to ask him for any favors, so this made his heart leap with joy for some reason.

Sean put his car into high gear after that. Afterward, he asked, “Might this be too fast for you?”

Erin shook her head and replied, “I feel fine now since I’ve already emptied the contents in my stomach just now.”

“Right…” he said nervously.

Erin and Sean managed to find the private

to puke before they came and was now sitting on the sofa, sipping hot water, with a young girl sitting next to her and taking care of

behind. The moment they entered the booth, the atmosphere fell dead silent. Everyone in the room started staring at

one of

better now, May? Can you walk by yourself? Let’s get you

the sound of the voice, and after her somewhat blurry vision finally made out that it was Erin sitting next to her, she started bawling,

her before helping her stand. A few of May’s friends also helped

appreciation for that. “Thank you for taking care of May

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Erin and Sean walked out of the karaoke place, Erin’s cell phone

then instructed Sean, who was standing next to her, “Answer the phone for me. I can’t take the call

up.”

orders. To think that she actually trusted him that much to allow him to answer her phone for her. He grabbed her handbag and fished out her phone from inside. The

name “Chandler.”

of curiosity flashed across his pupils

it is, Erin? Tell me, what time

the line connected.

made Sean speechless for a

something!” Chandler barked again. He was sitting in his study the whole time while he waited for Erin to return. It was agonizing for him to wait until ten, so naturally, he

Chandler. It’s me,” Sean

front of the study’s floor–to–ceiling window, had an icy

the phone right now,” Sean replied vaguely, deciding to toy with him

the phone

a split second, and it

tighten her hold around May’s waist and shoot a glare at the prankster Sean. She then swiped her phone out of his hands and replied in an upset tone, “What are you angry about, Chandler? Aren’t I just a little

few car horn honks in the distance, he gradually stopped frowning. He could sense that she was upset, so he thought for a while before asking, “Do you need

shift in attitude also helped Erin calm down. “You don’t have to. I’ll

the fact that she said the word “us.” It seemed to him like she

back to the villa.

to your cousin?” he

night, but if you don’t want her staying at the

her back here,” Chandler ordered, immediately ending the

her phone to