Chapter 74

"Linda, didn't you agree to have dinner with me?" William asked.

Linda glanced at her phone screen-it was 2:30 pm.

"Mr. Wilson, do you eat dinner in the afternoon?"

"I'm worried you might get stuck in traffic."

"I won't. Just pick a restaurant," Linda replied.

While they were talking, Jimmy's IV finished. Without waiting for the nurse, he pulled out the needle

himself.

"Are you crazy?" Linda was at a loss for words.

Who would pull out their own IV?

"I'm not." Jimmy dismissed her concern.

we have to do it

pulling her car keys from her

Wilson. I wish you a speedy recovery," Jimmy provoked, causing

back to his hotel and then returned to her own. As

food, Weshim

food, I can have the housekeeper prepare it

specific you'd like

at these messages, Linda thought about her past self. There was a time when she was just as humble,

to William. He

order whatever you like. After all, I never had a say, did 1?" William seemed to be holding his phone all this while.

sent

always had the right

your gestures of goodwill now mean nothing to

28-year-old Linda is no longer the same as the Linda who

were meant for self-protection. She put down her phone,

lay down on the bed. Perhaps it was from the exhaustion from thinking, but she drifted off to sleep. When she woke up, Chloe was sitting in the living room. "Linda, you're awake?" Chloe asked without

Linda replied, heading to the kitchen to

time is it now?"

winter and night fell quickly, it was hard to tell the

"6:45 pm.

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