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.”

Stanley through the rearview mirror. Stanley’s gentle demeanor was giving him a heart attack. Was

he never known

saying the words ‘anything is fine’ in

door earlier. Your body seemed weak. You only recovered after I held

sprayed some sort of drug at me when I wasn’t paying attention. I immediately passed out when it happened. When I woke up, I realized my body was weak and I couldn’t even speak. I

men to beat him up, Xyla would have called the police. She wanted Tom to spend some time in prison. But now that

whatever Xyla and Stanley had done today was enough. Besides, Tom

subordinates to beat him up. Xyla was happy to call it a draw. If she had chosen to be irrational, she would have asked

he was not sent to the hospital soon, he might end up dying. Stanley would not be able

what Xyla said, he stopped talking and

***

she immediately sneezed when a gust of cold wind blew into the car. Seeing the state she was in, Stanley

moment, Xyla blushed while her heart began to pound. “I’m capable of walking on

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