Spoiled by the Silver Fox

"Ah? You're asking about the injury on my face? Psshh, this scratch is nothing. I've been getting into fights since I was a kid. No biggie!"

"Geez, you were that violent when you were a kid?"

"What do you mean 'violent'? If someone bullied me, of course I'd fight back! And if someone messed with my mom, as her daughter, I had to protect her!"

"Yeah, that's true."

Too bad.

He also had a mother he wanted to protect.

But it was that woman who hurt him the most.

"By the way, my mom... Silver Fox, can you cover for me these next few days and tell my mom that I'm hanging out with you in the afternoons? Otherwise, she'll find out about my injury, and she'll definitely scold me."

Sebastian said indifferently, "Sorry, I can't."

"Please, Silver Fox! You're the best! You protected me tonight, so why wouldn't you want to help with this little thing?"

"No."

in anger, "Why

"I don't like lying

wife, and you don't even have the guts to admit it? You hate lying to people?

don't believe you, Silver Fox. Can you tell the

want to see you get

Stephanie was speechless.

a good opinion of him,

cover up the truth, and while Stephanie pretended to be. afraid of

doctor said her mom

way, her condition could stabilize temporarily. Once she found a suitable kidney donor, her health would recover after the transplant,

saying that her childhood friend Gillian Owens invited her to hang out at her school. Marilyn Bishop knew Gillian - she was friends with her daughter,

student now, she didn't have as much time to spend with Steph. When Marilyn thought about how the kids Steph's age

told Stephanie to have fun and not worry about her, assuring her that she'd take care of

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had since they were little - to become