No Strings Attached

Chapter 101

Dr. Chase, give Dawson a call, will you? It seems like Mr. Hayes has had his fill of me. I doubt he’d want to see me again. If there’s nothing else, I’m going to hang up.”

Chase immediately responded, “Clara, do you really want to cut lan off completely? Staying friends isn’t such a bad idea, you know.”

Clara chuckled awkwardly, “Dr. Chase, as a professional sugar baby, I shouldn’t be hanging onto a benefactor with strings attached, right? I’ve got things to do, so I’ll catch you later.” Her words were crisp and decisive, without any sign of hesitation.

After hanging up, Chase couldn’t help but curse, “You damn fool, you brought this on yourself! If you’d shown Clara a shred of decency, she wouldn’t be cutting you off like this.”

lan felt a sharp pain in his chest, but his face remained impassive, his tone still devoid of any warmth. “That pampered woman can’t handle the real world. When she crashes and burns, she’ll come crawling back.”

Chase’s chest ached with frustration. “Where do you get that confidence from, huh?”

a hopeless case left Chase speechless. He called up a few friends to join lan for drinks, trying to drown the sorrows.

out–drunk by lan, who was hardly sober himself. As he rested half–drunk

snapped his eyes open and was greeted by Clara’s pure, fresh face. She was dressed in his favorite black slip dress, her chestnut curls lazily draped over her shoulders, carrying his preferred scent of

“Clara, come back home with me, please?” His deep, expressive eyes burned with an intense heat as he looked

be the cool and detached

red with emotion. He clung to Heidi’s hand, his gaze hazy. “Okay, I’ll do whatever you say, just don’t leave.”

so humbly to anyone. Yet, to Clara, that infuriating woman, he was uncharacteristically gentle.

senses. It didn’t matter if he mistook her for Clara.

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