It took Armand a lot of effort to even his breathing. He helped her with her shirt and pulled the blanket over her before using the remote controller to close the curtains.

“Get some sleep,” said the man in a raspy voice. “I’ll come and get you when it’s time for lunch.”

Genevieve murmured a reply and curled herself up under the blanket.

After Armand closed the door to the bedroom, he called Steven and said, “Come over to Regality Gardens now.”

He felt so stuffy inside that he couldn’t breathe.

He walked to the living room and saw the pack of cigarettes on the coffee table. He took one out and began to smoke.

Armand didn’t rest when Patrick escaped with Genevieve. He had spent most of his time dealing with the reporters and the other members of the Faulkner family and had Steven in charge of looking for Genevieve.

After he got the police to drop the charges against Genevieve, they sent her things back. It was her phone and her purse that she had left at the Faulkner residence.

The phone screen had cracked, but it still functioned well.

Maria had been worried that Genevieve would need that phone, so she had left it on the coffee table.

broken phone and turned it

of her leaning back on a pillow. She had a loose white shirt on

his shirt

she was hugging was the one he won from the Devil’s Pasta challenge. Her cheek was pressed against the snow-white body

looking at him through the screen with eyes

and even an undisguised love in those

swiped the screen, and a PIN was required to unlock the phone. He knew the PIN

unlocked the phone, he recalled that “143” was the number of letters in each word for “I love you” and the last four

clicked on the notepad, he saw two documents. Genevieve would type her words on her phone and show them to the others when she couldn’t speak. She had a habit of deleting everything after the person she was communicating

a

don’t owe you anything,

meatballs and eat every single one of them right in

unless we

“Armand Faulkner, you’re inhuman!”

you’re so much older than me. Isn’t it normal

I thought I should reciprocate the gesture and get

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