Chapter 358

“Flynn’s grandpa is celebrating his 73rd birthday this weekend. They’re throwing him a huge birthday banquet.”

“Are you attending it, then?”

Queenie laughed. Her crisp chuckle traveled from the other end of the line. It was a joyous laugh, but it sounded sad to me.

“He’s going with a female companion, but it’s not me. Do you know? He has never invited me to any formal occasion. Never. It’s like I bring him shame or something. He won’t let anyone see us together.”

Her laughter slowly vanished, replaced by a croaky voice.

“The contract will be over soon. What’s your plan next?”

After Queenie graduated, she was headhunted by a state–owned company. They offered an attractive employment package and promised her a promotion. However, Flynn persuaded her to quit her job and join his company, citing his unwillingness to be separated from her

as an excuse.

Perhaps Queenie was a lovesick girl, or perhaps she was smitten with Flynn, she moved to where Flynn lived without paying any heed to her family’s opposition. She joined his company as a rank–and–file employee, working under Flynn’s childhood friend, Daniela.

Daniela’s naive facade was an ugly heart. She had been making Queenie’s life difficult, often making her work overtime until late at night. When Queenie told Flynn, he said that Queenie had no prior

again, he shut her down impatiently, saying that they could never

to say, Queenie had a

Flynn would visit her and drive her to and from work every day. They would live together in the house he had bought her.

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her. Oftentimes, she only knew that he had come back from a business trip from Daniela’s

told Queenie to reconsider the

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to wait for a bit. Perhaps he still loved her

Julia and me but to convince herself.

through with Matthew, I lost even more faith in her relationship with Flynn. Love was nothing before class differences. Money and power

Luna. But I’m so tired and disappointed. What if I can’t stand it anymore one day

give him up one day, it’d be as if she had

It’d hurt a

but you don’t know

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