Chapter 536

But now, it was rush hour. As soon as she tried to book a ride, the app told her there were over two hundred people ahead of her in line.

Plus, it was the first day of school, and the streets were packed with parents dropping off their kids. Traffic everywhere was a mess.

Seeing this, Charlene stopped in her tracks.

Thorne noticed she wasn't following and turned back. "What's wrong?"

Charlene hesitated. "...Nothing."

In the end, she got into Thorne's car after all.

Once inside, Thorne turned as if to say something to her, but before he could speak, his phone rang.

"Sorry, I need to take this," he said.

"Go ahead," Charlene replied, her tone casual.

The call was clearly international-he spoke entirely in a foreign language.

on

on for quite

the car was nearly at PrimeStar that Thorne

looked as though he wanted to say something, but before he could, Charlene glanced out the window and spoke first. "Could you have the


meaning. He looked at her, but didn't argue, simply told the

car stopped about two or three hundred meters from PrimeStar's building. Charlene got out. Before closing the door, she offered a polite, "Thank you." Thorne gave a faint smile. "No

caught that smile, said nothing more, and

Elsewhere—

long after Thorne and Charlene left the school, Jasmine's

It was Vesta calling.

in high spirits that morning. Seeing the

warm and caring.

"She did, she did!"

on Jasmine's happy tone. "First day of school, and

"By the way Minnie, did your

"He did!"

a little. "I thought since your mom


your dad wouldn't need to

"But after dinner last night, when I was getting my things

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