More Than A Favor

Chapter 26

“What’s the use of missing them? Focus on what you’re going to do next,” Nora said, noticing the pain in my eyes and deliberately changing the

subject.

“Since you broke up with Logan, are you still going to work for him?” Nora

asked.

The water boiled, so I made two cups of instant coffee. “I’ve already sent the handover materials to the respective people. I’ve written my resignation letter. Once the amusement park inspection is done, I’ll resign.”

“Good choice. The idea of staying friends after a breakup is nonsense. Only distance helps you move on.” Nora fully supported my decision.

I nodded.

Nora, worried I might feel sad, didn’t linger on the subject. She glanced around my house and said, “You should get some new appliances here- maybe a fully automatic washing machine, a coffee machine, and a robot.

vacuum.”

“I’ll do it once I get back,” I replied.

Nora, sipping her coffee, looked at me curiously. “Where are you going?”

It took me four hours to reach Amaty by high–speed rail. The city lights were just coming on. It wasn’t as bustling as Hilcord, but it was still brightly lit, with the charm of a small town. Nora’s call came right on time. “Are you there yet? Have you found a place to stay?” she asked.

She hadn’t expected me to leave so quickly. When she’d asked earlier where I was going, I gave her the address and the time of my train ticket.

Nora thought I was leaving in such a hurry to avoid Logan, assuming I was afraid he’d try to cling to me.

I told her she was wrong–Logan wouldn’t do that. He was probably still angry. After all, I’d stood him up.

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And now, it seemed I was right. Since the time he’d called to ask why I didn’t show up to register for our marriage, he hadn’t texted or called me

once.

visit this place. I also didn’t want to be pestered–not by Logan, but by Tessa and Ethan. They’d definitely

me would only waste their energy and

the chance.

now–a number Logan didn’t know. It was my dad’s old number, one I’d kept in the other slot

a rush,” I said, glancing around the unfamiliar city. Everything seemed to

area.

windows and door,” Nora

softly, touched by her concern. “Alright, I will.

“Elaine, you must take

matter what.”

my hometown, Nora,” I said. “My mom and dad went through so much here. Even though I didn’t

dad’s handwriting–a note with an address from his old diary. I

couldn’t help but look at him too, and I was a little surprised by

rough and somewhat intimidating.

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with were always meticulously groomed, usually dressed

someone who had just been

on my backpack. Nora had slipped a pepper spray and a folding knife

the man had already started the car

look he had

this city, started racing erratically. Distracted by my wariness, I didn’t

I paid and got out. Watching the vehicle drive away,

to look for my parents‘ old home. But now that I was here, there was no point in second–guessing my decision.

old. The walls were crumbling, the uneven ground was full of potholes, and puddles dotted the road.

along the street until I found it. There was even a “For Rent” sign on the

rent this place? Only a

surrounded by rooms on all sides, with a tree

already knew–it was a honey locust. It had been

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or a place to

gray hair, leaning on a thin cane,