A Life Debt Repaid

Sam remained nonchalant. “It’s no hurry. I’ve been preparing for half a month.”

He did not seem affected that he would be leaving the country along with his friends and family.

“When are you coming back?” Ryan asked.

Sam shrugged. “No idea-it depends on how things go. I’ll be back early if things go smoothly. If they don’t, who knows?”

Ryan had more to say but realized he had nothing more to say.

He took Quinn’s hand just then.

Quinn seemed to regain her senses just then, and she pursed her lips, a tear rolling off the corner of her eye.

She hid it well.

“Come on,” Ryan told her.

nodded, not saying a word to Sam even in

knew he could only watch her leave when she had gone far with Ryan, which he

in Saunderia-Sam did not have to go

do it

out of sight, out of mind-just

no idea how many times he could take seeing them like this

John and the others that he left, and it would

surprised, but it was somehow easy to

of himself and to remember to come

thinking, leaving just like that?! Are you

you, I’d be fighting Ryan to

just humiliate myself because I’d never

would you know you wouldn’t? Do you lack

Sam: [Both.]

up on the proposal you planned so