The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Chapter 65

Chapter

65

ed up all of the salary you gave me,

"There's nothing I need to pay for, and there's even less for me to spend on. As such, I basically saved

and 1 can do whatever 1 want with it in the future-I'm not short of money.

Tell your employees to contact another artist instead, "I said.

Though Zane was surprised, he could only nod in agreement. "Alright."

"Besides, I have two jobs now," I added.

I knew what he was thinking-he probably couldn't understand why I didn't treasure the precious opportunity that he gave me.

As such, I explained, "My main priority is to take care of Willow. Even though she was unwilling to speak to people previously, she has started to talk to us now. She also likes to brag to others. "Since her situation is improving greatly, I have to try my best so that she'll recover eventually.

lot of time to

that, I said calmly and

do other things all at once, I might not

for a while. Then, he said, "I didn't expect you

occur to me that you'd choose to work on both of these tasks when you

Inodded. "Yes"

filled his eyes while he looked at me. "It's all good as long as

spirits were lifted after I got Zane's

the dishes were cooked by the time our conversation ended, and Zane carried

todo"

were only for one person, so he ordered four dishes and a bowl of

over.

the tray down, he passed me a

would go to waste, I

"If we can't finish them, we'll have the leftovers

a ton of people who kept peeking at us during our meal. I guessed that they were curious because Zane rarely ate at the company's cafeteria, yet

a lot of seasoning for the vegetables, so their

happily while eating, and thought, "If only I could doodle here

I could get a cafeteria card from Zane, I would deposit some money inside it to buy a few