I nodded and smiled bleakly. After another thirty minutes of conversation, the voice on the other end of the line got softer and softer. She was probably getting sleepier by the minute.

A while later, I heard Ashton’s deep, low voice over the phone. “She has fallen asleep. I’ll send her back to her room first—wait for me to come back!”

I nodded. “Alright.”

I couldn’t help but yawn too—it had been a very long day. Five minutes later, I heard Ashton’s voice again. “Are you very tired today?”

I nodded and replied miserably, “Just a little!” I had been working from morning till night, and my entire body was wracked with fatigue.

“Have you washed up yet?”

I shut my eyes and nodded my head hastily. “Of course, I have.”

An odd thought floated into my head that very moment, and I found myself thinking about Armond and Nora. Rather hesitatingly, I ventured, “Ashton, what happens when you men can’t…you know…”

I heard him suck in a deep breath on the other end of the line. After a short pause, he asked, “Can’t what?”

Hearing his suggestive tone, I knew he was thinking all sorts of rubbish again. I opened my mouth and said, “It’s like this. Armond and Nora are in a relationship now, aren’t they? But Armond seems to have some sort of trauma regarding intimacy. I think it stems from something that happened to him in the past. What do you think he should do?”

After all, who could understand a man better than another man?

I suppose. Why are you poking your nose into it?

pouted and replied in a dissatisfied

again. “I’ll be coming over to A City tomorrow. What do

I replied, “Korean barbeque and Japanese cuisine!

kept talking about them last night, and now I wanted to eat them

chuckled softly and said, “Alright then, sleep earlier. Make sure to shut the door and windows properly—double-check the locks, do you hear

tired of his nagging, I said consolingly, “Alright, alright, I

after which I headed into the bathroom to wash up. Perhaps it was because work had tired me out too much, but I fell asleep almost as soon as my head touched

September in A City meant lots and lots of sunlight—the dews on green leaves on the trees

well indeed, so I

the second floor of the base that morning. Since there was nothing

Corporations was coming to an end in the next few days, and we would be

like fire and ice in some aspects, she was flawless when it came to her job, and I thoroughly

out on her face. It wasn’t a polite smile—rather, she looked as though she had just seen something she liked. It was

I saw a man emerge from a black Bentley at the door of the hotel. He

got it at

man walked towards me, I couldn’t help but laugh. I ran over to him at once and jumped into his arms. “Didn’t you say you

nudged my nose with his knuckle and said, smiling, “Are you really going to have both Korean barbeque and

head.

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