Through the smoke in the air, Stanley slowly turned around and examined Xyla’s face with a deep look in his eyes.

“You don’t have to return anything to me for now,” he said calmly after exhaling a puff of smoke.

“Let me thank you by buying you a meal tonight,” said Xyla.

“Sure.”

“I’ll decide on the place and send you the location on WhatsApp,” said Xyla with a forced smile.

“Okay,” he replied with a gentle look on his face.

“Is there any particular restaurant you’d like to go to?”

“Anything is fine. Wherever you like.”

shocked. He could not resist peeking at Stanley through the rearview mirror. Stanley’s gentle demeanor was giving him a heart attack. Was Stanley capable of saying things this

never

had never heard Stanley saying the words ‘anything is fine’ in front of him or anyone else. This

Your body seemed weak. You only recovered after I held you in my arms. Why was that? Did

I immediately passed out when it happened. When I woke up, I realized my

fired at Tom and asked his men to beat him up, Xyla would have called the police. She wanted Tom to spend some time in prison. But now that Stanley had already taught Tom a lesson, the Sullivan family would make a huge fuss if she called

done today was

happy to call it a draw. If she had chosen to be irrational, she would have asked Stanley

wrist would not stop bleeding. Xyla knew that his vein must have been torn from the gunshot. If he was not sent

Xyla said, he stopped talking

***

they arrived home, Stanley opened ninjanovel the door for Xyla. Barely wearing anything, she immediately sneezed when a gust of cold wind blew into the car. Seeing the

blushed while her heart began to pound. “I’m capable of walking

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