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"Afraid I'll steal their jobs?" Hayden teased, a faint smile tugging at his lips.

"They're just curious," Keira replied, watching him deftly sand the wood. "How do you know how to do all this? Have you done it before?"

Hayden paused his work. "Yeah, I've done all this before."

Keira handed him a bottle of water, brushing the wood shavings off his face as she sat beside him. "Don't tell me you used to make a living doing this."

Hayden took a sip of water. "I did. I made money this way to pay for my tuition and cover Yuna's medical bills. Otherwise, my mom would've had too much to bear on her own."

Hearing him mention this, Keira couldn't help but think about the deaths of his father and my parents.

But those things were in the past. Instead, Keira focused on his age back then. "You couldn't have been very old at the time, right?"

"Eleven or twelve," Hayden said. "But I was already tall-just skinny. When I went to construction sites, people thought I was fifteen or sixteen and gave me work. But because I was young, they'd cut my pay. So my solution was to work smarter, to take on tasks others couldn't handle. That way, I had leverage."

Hayden gazed into the distance, as if he could see

in by the Johnston family,

fact, they'd spoiled her like

caused by their actions, they had tried to make

why you

come back or even called. Maybe

family. Sooner or later, he'd

go

back-

as long as they don't force you to marry someone else," Keira said, her tone calm

to look at her, his lips curling into a smirk. He

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selfish. As long as it doesn't threaten

to make things hard for you. Don't be ungrateful, Mr. Hart," Keira said, mimicking his

energy on fixing up this courtyard and making the tea drinks

said, gazing at the now-cleared courtyard,

curious, "why did you suddenly want to fix up a

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