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.”

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

had he never

is fine’ in front of him or anyone

acting strangely when I walked through the door earlier. Your body seemed weak. You only recovered after I held you in my arms. Why was that? Did he drug you?”

woke up, I realized my body

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

done today was enough. Besides, Tom had failed to rape

the wrist and even asked his subordinates to beat him up. Xyla was happy to call it a draw. If

that his vein must have been torn from the gunshot. If he was not sent to the hospital soon, he might end up dying.

he stopped talking

***

when a

heart began to pound. “I’m capable of

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