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ized that Mr. Adam was asking about the girl who

it's

e discussing marriage. The old lady of The Raven family has sent someone to inv

ria

elicate and fragile fig

hair cascading down like satin. She was so small, clearly

sat with her

k pupils dark

blem?" Bill's voice

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hdrew his gaze, erasing

o the c

s,

take Mity ho

the hotel, his phone

him. The moment they heard he had taken Mity to meet his

had approved the engagement, the

ing for nearly a year, yet none of th

social media. A small portion of Mity's back was accidentally captured in

have to bring Sister Mity ove

months ago, I've been dying to know-what kind of s

Mity, but the rest of us haven't even seen her yet! W

goi

eel, his expression lazy as he listened

have time

time? Aren't we alw

e phone, the rowdiness

ze turning cold. "Stop bothering

s. She needs to go home

eft his mouth, the other

n did you become this

en-thirty? Bro, be honest, are you just using this

ughing, and even throwing

k with alcohol sud

ngaged, but I don't believe it... I do

beep-

temperature inside the

rain-drenched city, the gas pedal pressed a

bed her seatbelt, looki

et him duri

e suddenl

so Mity couldn't hear the convers

ftly, seeing how Alan kept stepping on the gas. "

meant

as annoyed because he was turnin

re

a red light, skidding across the

ward by the momentum, only

bout to ask what was wrong-when his voice, utt

t o

ha

ned little by li

d, get

he windshield, watching the wipers move b

athing gre

lowing inside the car,

a long mom

.Ok

unfastened her seatbelt, finge

acked open, Alan's col

night. Go home by yourself

okay. I u

t, the bitterness in her

ueezing her heart, grabbed her

night air immed

efore firmly placing her clean can

away the moment the red light tur

ured down i

an left Mity standing

d a temporary shelter un

by towering skyscrapers that resembled a cold, unfeeling steel jungle

ched like a

lan was now soaked through, clinging to her skin in

d the rain had brought

a ride. No matter how much extra she w

from the eaves above, d

to the dark sky, and for a fleeting

tranded in the rain like thi

ement tonight... or maybe, just maybe, he woul

Mity had already dia

that you? Why are

made her almost b

d,

you go? It's pouring outside, don't stay out playing. I have an

beep-

the call had be

ying the ended call. Her heart clenched, even tight

ned her, she hadn't

Alan's temper flaring up-his

mental and unpredictable, prone

se when he was in a good moo

her f

s love had been divide

longer h

away. She hugged her arms around

h the same color-whether from the cold r

d-edition Rolls-Royce slo

trance... isn't that The Raven f

n he noticed the figure by the road

d-the girl who had mistakenly entered the

he backseat didn

his phone, his cold, dark eyes lower

d something have happened? Should we check on her?" Bill felt a

fting his deep, abyss-like

re huddled o

e rain, like a tendril of dodder vine that had lost i

secretary had spo

.

the rain, she vaguely noticed a b

tention, assuming it was ju

, the black Rolls-Royce slo

far from her, righ

inctively

crept up from the

ver opened. No

ing for someone or had to stop

prickled at Mity's nerves, as if an i

help but st

g of eights on the lic

alone was wo

reminded her of the man she had enc

s tick

where she was, and the

ff between a gi

ty didn

ws, a pair of eyes were watc

't see the

, could clearly see the t

dly drenched by the rain, tin

cold-or perhaps from sup

uart withdrew his

ri

tion of getting

abandoned on the roadside in a storm, nor w

never been

ring silently into the underground parking lot o

let out a bre

ing of being watched

g that her legs had gone numb

inally displayed a notification-h

r eyes, only to realize that her tears h

tears back before

soft, self-m

d arrived. She pulled o

yscraper, Stuart stood by the floor-to-ceilin

agile figure in white crouchin

she was still st

didn't

dn't