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.”

driver who overheard the conversation was shocked. He could not resist peeking at Stanley through the rearview mirror. Stanley’s gentle demeanor was giving him a heart attack. Was Stanley

never known

Stanley saying the words ‘anything is fine’ in front of him or anyone

walked through the door earlier. Your body seemed weak. You only recovered after I held you in

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

her, the angrier she became. If Stanley 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 lesson, the Sullivan family would make a

was enough. Besides, Tom had failed to rape

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

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

said, he stopped talking and

***

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

Xyla blushed while her heart began to pound. “I’m

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