Chapter 1160:

Cliff fell silent. He’d spent the night restless, smoking, until at four in the morning, he ventured out to buy fresh ingredients for her soup. Three hours of preparation had gone into it. She’d tasted his cooking before. Why couldn’t she remember the flavor of his soup? Such a poor memory.

Cliff studied her foot with careful attention. The bruise had faded to a yellowish ring, not entirely gone but nothing serious.

Laney’s cheeks burned with embarrassment as she tried to hide her foot from his inspection. “It’s not pretty,” she muttered.

Cliff’s eyes swept over her rounded toes. “Indeed, it’s ugly.”

A cold snort escaped Laney’s lips.

The room fell into a comfortable silence as Laney savored the soup, while Cliff reclined in the makeup chair across from her, his attention seemingly absorbed by his phone screen.

Despite her usual concerns about maintaining her figure, Laney couldn’t resist fishing out every tender morsel of meat from her single bowl of soup.

lingering headache?” Cliff’s voice broke

on g aln ov

with a

fragments of last night’s memories resurfaced. “Kailyn mentioned you were there drinking too,” she

he secured

pulse quickening. Could he have

did last night?” Cliff’s calm voice cut through her

barely a

kissing skills were

her had sunk even lower. “It

to his nature as he couldn’t resist teasing

thinking of her faintly aching

you?” Cliff pressed.

wronged. “Weren’t you

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