Chapter 61

The following weekend, I didn't go to work at the restaurant. Thanks to Lyla's cousin, the restaurant compensated me, and I quickly located Leah in the surveillance footage.

A little later, Lyla ran over to me with her phone. "Look, Eve," she said.

I took the phone from her and scrolled through the file about the tat man. As I did, Lyla explained, "Ryan mentioned that this guy isn't from Napel and doesn't come from any wealthy family. He thinks the man probably snuck into the restaurant from somewhere else." Everything finally made sense. Why had I seen Leah at the restaurant? And why would such a high-end establishment ignore an employee being harassed instead of stopping it immediately?

Lvlasat down beside me and placed her hand on my arm. "Eve, I feel like we've had a run of bad luck lately. Maybe we should go to the church and get a blessing from the pastor." I looked at her and smiled. "That sounds good."

Lyla was someone who always acted on a whim. As soon as I agreed, she immediately said, "Let's go."

She took me to the church, where we received blessings.

to the airport. At the airport, she hugged me tightly

here alone, promise me you'll

she added me to Ryan's WhatsApp right in front of me before finally

but as I watched Lyla look back at me every few steps, a warm feeling filled my heart. There were still people in this world who cared

in my past life,

next day, so I arrived at school early. Since I hadn't been back to the dorm for a few days, Brenda and Sharon casually asked where 1 had

before leaving themselves. Lillian was the only one in the room, sitting at her desk and applying lipstick in the mirror. She sneered, "Oh, so you were with a friend, huh? Who knows what shady business you

were

"Lillian, enough. Stop causing trouble. Evelyn's being very generous by not arguing

stood up from her seat, clutching her books, and said,

they both beckoned me to follow them.

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