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.

a word to

not look at her, because he knew he could only watch her leave when she had gone

of talented representatives in Saunderia-Sam

offered to do it to stay

goes, out of sight, out of

how many times he could take seeing them

that he informed John and the others that he left, and it

surprised, but it was somehow easy to

they told him nothing aside from to take care of himself and to remember to come home when he

privately: [What are you thinking, leaving just like that?!

I were you, I’d

myself because I’d never

you know you wouldn’t? Do you lack confidence toward yourself or

Sam: [Both.]

giving up on the