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

watch her leave when she

talented representatives in Saunderia-Sam did not

offered to do it

out of sight, out

had no idea how many times he could take seeing

headed abroad. It was only after he arrived that he informed John and the others that he left, and it would be after a while that

surprised, but it

to take care of himself and to remember to

Zoe meddled a little, texting Sam privately: [What are you thinking, leaving just like

If I were you, I’d be fighting

myself

know you wouldn’t? Do you lack

Sam: [Both.]

just giving up on the proposal you planned so