The silence in the car was thick enough to cut with a knife, and Dorothy felt a wave of awkwardness that made her skin crawl.

Usually, whenever Everett sensed her discomfort, he'd find a way to lighten the mood, but today, he didn't seem to have any intention of doing so.

It wasn't until they were almost at Bay Residence that he broke the silence again.

"Dorothy, should we maybe have a proper talk?" he asked.

He felt that they had never truly sat down to discuss their future or the whirlwind of events that had transpired between them.

It was always her with her thoughts, and him with his.

Everett had thought he had lost the right to ask Dorothy for a heart-to-heart, but that night, the vulnerability and love in her eyes were unmistakable, and he wasn't blind.

he could recall her trembling voice calling out his

of illness left him too drained to think of much else besides getting the

the country, their fiery encounter

looking at him but picking at

us." "Let's not talk right now," Dorothy rejected quickly. "At least I think we got nothing to talk about at this moment." Everett frowned; he

the fact that we slept together!" "I know." "Dorothy, we can't go on like this." "Everett," she sighed deeply, then spoke

was just a matter of waiting.

Everett seemed to have anticipated this response, his lips curling into a dry semblance of a smile. "Alright, I'll wait for you." He

one and couldn't

kids and heading to the airport, Dorothy witnessed Karen wrapped

at them and quickly turned away, blushing

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other hand, gave them a cold look and furrowed hisro as Telook freon of the

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