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.”

resist peeking at Stanley through the rearview mirror. Stanley’s gentle demeanor was

had he never

the words ‘anything is fine’ in front of

door earlier. Your body seemed weak. You only recovered after I held you in my arms.

I woke up, I realized my body was weak and I couldn’t even speak. I

had not 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

today was enough. Besides, Tom had failed to rape

to call it a draw. If she had chosen to be irrational, she would

have been torn from the gunshot. If he was not sent to the hospital soon, he might end up dying. Stanley would not

Xyla said, he

***

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

began to pound. “I’m capable

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