The Reclaimed Rose (Annalise and Steven)

Chapter 272

"I have no idea. It doesn't matter anyway." That was my answer to Zane's question. "Zane, he never truly treated me well in the past six years when he and I were together."

I continued, "It was the worst this year. Yet, he claimed he loved me now that I've gotten away from him."

Nonchalantly, I came to the conclusion. "I don't need that kind of love."

Zane nodded. "Indeed. To make it up to someone after hurting them... Well, the right thing to do was to be nice to them from the very beginning."

Indeed. I agreed with him.

Zane took me to have barbeque since I was in a foul mood. He knew I needed to vent my frustrations.

We ordered lots of food with both spicy and non-spicy sauce. I was a little surprised at that.

Noticing my look of surprise, Zane grinned. "I can't handle spicy food, but I can order some less spicy food so we can dig in together."

"I suppose I should say thank you?" I chuckled, amused.

menu to see

favorite foods written on the menu. The restaurant offered pulled pork and fish and chips, too, but one look at the price made my heart leap into my throat. They

afford the food, but

pork

really enough?"

replied

he seemed to have read my mind

voice, I said, "That doesn't

"Indeed," said Zane thoughtfully.

a few more dishes before he returned the menu

a relaxed manner and said, "Anna, you'll make more money

as to why he would bring

his time to

Sur

later stages. But you've made quite a lot of money

Zane, the food served in

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spendthrift than to revert to being frugal. What if I got used to spending lavishly and accidentally spent