James reached out and lightly tapped Esther's head with his hand. "You caught on pretty quickly."

"Alright, I want to go home now," Esther said, glancing at her clean clothes as she sat up.

A memory of throwing up flashed in her mind. Why were her clothes clean? If she remembered it, it couldn't have been a dream. Suddenly, a strange smell caught Esther's attention. Sniffing around, she realized her clothes didn't smell like her detergent.

"Did you take off my clothes?" Esther blurted out, feeling awkward even saying it.

James, feeling stressed but wanting to reassure her, explained patiently, "No, the cleaner did it."

had to admit he saw something, but he didn't do anything to her. He washed her clothes and

wouldn't wake up naked. Esther was in such a deep sleep that she didn't even wake up when she was dressed. Esther realized she was a little rude. But just as she was about to apologize, her

Pearl," she answered, dreading what her friend might say if she found out she didn't go home and stayed the night at James's

"Where are you?"

voice sounded calm, but Esther sensed trouble. She stuttered nervously, "I... I'm at home, just woke up. What's going on?" Sᴇaʀch Thᴇ ꜰindNʘvel.ɴet website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of novels early and

usually still be asleep at this hour. How could she be back from James's

face. "Yes, I'm at home. You know I'm not a morning person." She was getting better at

lie to me? Do you think I don't know you're

apologized. "I'm sorry,

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