My Mirror Image

Chapter 0026

However, at the next second, Alex pulled his hand back and the shadows before Candice’s eyes disappeared.

She subtly frowned.

Alex sneered. “You really think I want to sleep with you?”

Candice’s eyelids froze for a moment. She took a deep breath and opened her eyes.

“Then what do you want to do?” she asked.

There was only a night lamp in the room, creating a dim environment that veiled Alex’s expression.

All she could hear him saying was, “Sleep.”

“This is my room,” she said calmly. “You can book a room yourself.”

“It’s troublesome.”

Candice turned away from him and closed her eyes.

She was a light sleeper. The softest noise could wake her up.

At midnight, Alex’s phone suddenly rang. The electronic melody sounded irritatingly sharp.

Candice woke up with furrowed brows. She saw Alex talking on the phone, and since they were on the same bed, she could also hear

Sonia’s cry.

are you? Can you come to the hospital right now? My dad got into a car crash and he’s in the emergency

instinctively looked at

frowned and said heavily. “I’m on

my way.”

phone, he bolted up while pinching the

said, “Book me a ticket

spoke after a while. “We

transfer some money to her first and go back tomorrow after we sign the contract.”

moment as he put on his shirt. He looked at her

obviously

blanket tightly and asked, “So you’re serious

person, not even toward herself. She

and things would only get worse

sterly, “Since when did I say I was not

had been Candice’s assumption all

similar to Alex’s past flings,

awake. She got herself a cup of warm milk and stood

the words he said to her just

are a turn–off. Stop

only eighteen when she started being with Alex. Similar to Sonia, she

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and spend

never help her with unfinished work, nor fire anyone because

only tell her that he never kept useless

flashed across her eyes. She

client was furious because of